Transcript All Transportation Counts The Sky’s the Limit!

All Transportation Counts
The Sky’s the Limit!
Greg Jackson
State of Ohio
Chief Information Officer
October 7-8, 2003
Ohio University, Athens
MARCS Inception
• 1987 - Highway Patrol Begins Study of Existing System
• 1990 - Shadyside Flood Disaster
• 1991 - Interagency Telecommunications Task Force
Recommendation
• 1993 - Lucasville Prison Disturbance
• 1994 - MARCS Steering Committee Established
• 1995 - RFP Issued
• 1998 - Contract Awarded to TRW, Inc
• 2000 – Construction Began
Mission
The goal of the Multi-Agency Radio
Communication System (MARCS) is to
provide a statewide communications
infrastructure for public safety first
responders.
Benefits
• 800 Mhz digital, trunked voice and
data communications system.
• Vastly improved voice coverage
performance for all participating
agencies.
• Statewide, secure, reliable public
safety/public service wireless
communication system.
• Mobile data transmissions for direct
access to agency computer networks.
• 97.5 percent mobile voice and data
coverage per county.
• Improved flexibility to support
changing business requirements.
• Statewide interoperability.
• Increased utilization of capacity due to
sharing of available resources.
• Enhanced safety and protection for
public safety service providers with
secure digital transmissions.
• Save lives in normal and emergency
operations via decreased response
times and vastly improved command,
control and communications.
Status
 Central Ohio (13 Counties) fully operational.
 Full state wide voice coverage and operation - late
2004/early 2005.
 As of September 9, 2003 – 88 towers completed (43%).
 More than 2,594 mobile units deployed.
 Union County pilot program to link an entire county's
public safety service agencies with state completed May
2003.
 Aggressively working with other local agencies to share
resources and increase interoperability.
MARCS Platform
CAD
AVL
Mobile
Data
Mobile
Voice
Integrated Environment
MARCSNet
Geographic
Mapping
Records
Management
LEADS/
NCIC
Access
Integrated
Network
Mgmt
Dedicated to Public Service and Public Safety!
MARCS
Towers
Statewide
Network Topology
State of Ohio Multi-Agency
Communications (SOMAC)
Contract with SBC
 Postal Rated T1s @
$400/month
MARCS Towers Appalachia
Over 80 Towers
within Appalachian
Region.
OSU Broadband Study
• Determined which MARCS towers were located in regions with no
other broadband internet service provider (either DSL, cable or
wireless).
• Determined that there are wireless internet technologies with the
potential to reach underserved populations without interfering with
normal MARCS tower operations.
• Assessed tower locations where there were concentrations of
population with a propensity to purchase broadband internet services.
• Determined that Ohio’s wireless providers have a strong interest in
cooperating with the state to extend broadband internet services to
these regions.
Closing the Divide
Approximately
15 towers could
be leveraged for
Broadband
Internet Service.
Red & Yellow
Conclusion of Study
The result of the OSU Study was a recommendation to
hire a Program Manager, under the direction of the
State CIO, to “pilot” the construction and
implementation of a broadband tower within an
underserved geography as a “proof of concept”. At the
conclusion of the pilot, an impact report shall be
provided to the appropriate Third Frontier state
coordinating council on expanding the concept
throughout underserved areas of the state.
MARCS Contact
Darryl L. Anderson
MARCS Program Administrator
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Office: (614) 466-2257
Facsimile: (614) 995-0067
Cellular: (614) 207-4453
Home: (614) 890-8112
Home Facsimile: (614) 818-3299
Email: [email protected]
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Service Costs
 Mobile Voice - 800 MHz mobile radio communications providing
97.5% coverage per county statewide. ($19.17/month)
 Mobile Data - Transmission, routing, encryption, LEADS inquiries,
and reformatting of data from mobile data terminals (MDT).
($341.66/month)
 Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)/Law Records Management
System (LRMS) - CAD provides GPS-based automatic vehicle
location, resource recommendation, and geographic map display.
LRMS enables access to criminal and law records via the CAD or
MDT. ($1,791.66/month)
Participating Agencies
• Ohio Attorney General's Office Bureau of Criminal Identification &
Investigation
• Ohio Department of Administrative
Services
• Ohio Department of Commerce State Fire Marshal
• Ohio Department of Health
• Ohio Department of Natural
Resources
• Ohio Department of Public Safety EMA, Highway Patrol, Investigative
Unit
• Ohio Department of Rehabilitation
and Correction
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Ohio Department of Taxation
Ohio Department of Transportation
Ohio Department of Youth Services
Ohio Environmental Protection
Agency
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
All 88 County Sheriffs, all 88 county
EMA's
All Hospitals and Health Depts.
Statewide (New)
State, county, township, municipal,
federal entities (New)