METROCOM PRPD PRESENTATION BROCHURE

METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc. Fort Lauderdale Jet Center

1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315

METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS designs and supplies video conferencing systems, passive and active InfraRed imaging arrays, gyro mounted video systems, and total airborne surveillance solutions. METROCOM provides custom audio and video surveillance equipment and systems. This includes body bugs, custom covert microphones, compact portable bugging repeaters, and total audio and video surveillance solutions.

Let us first show you the Crisis Command Center built for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The operations portion of the Crisis Center comprises of a two story building adjacent to the Public Safety Commission building. Additionally, the 11th floor of the Public Safety Commission building houses all of the various RF gear, microwave components, and distribution equipment.

This is the ‘War Room’ in it’s early stages of construction. The room has maps of the Commonwealth and it’s major cities on the long walls. There is also a window that looks into the War Room from the second story Press Office.



This view is of the completed room looking from the Governor’s chair. A telephone at each seat position provides cabinet members with private communications, or they can be used to microphone each person, for a group wide conference call. The room is equipped with clocks covering all time zones, white boards for drawing, and computers interfaced to the various Government systems.

This view is facing the Governor’s chair. There are Barco projectors hanging from the ceiling. They project to opposite ends of the room so everyone can see the images without neck strain. A bank of video monitors behind the Governor, monitor various video feeds including Commercial Broadcast, images from the helicopters, National Weather Service, and video conferencing. The last of these are linked to the Crisis Command Center via microwave transmitters and receivers.

The National Weather Service has the microwave antenna mounted on the tower behind the structure.

The antenna is covered with a dome to make it less susceptible to wind.



The top picture is of the Crisis Center’s Control Room. All equipment is mounted in industry standard 19” rack mount cabinets. The bottom picture is of the Crisis Center's Multi-Agency Communications Room. Workstations are arranged in user friendly configurations. All aspects of the Crisis Command Center are designed for optimum efficiency and reduced worker stress. This is not just limited to workplace arrangement of equipment, but includes the facility's lighting and sound environments. All aspects of the operation were taken in to account in the design phase.



This is the completed Press Room.

There is a bank of monitors located on the left wall. These are switched from the Crisis Center’s Control Room. This insures that images or videos of a sensitive nature, do not accidentally get to the media services. These monitors can contain images from Public Officials, the government's helicopters or video conferencing systems. The monitors can contain images off the various computer systems such as the Emergency Management System and Weather Information System or the video from the TV Media currently being broadcast. All of the signals on these monitors are made available for the press and media to re-broadcast or record by simply plugging their Electronic News Gathering trucks into the connections provided in the Crisis Center parking lot.



Both color video and passive InfraRed images can be supplied to the Crisis Command Center from two of the Police Department owned helicopters. A small gyro-stabilized pod is mounted beneath the helicopter.

Also mounted on the underside is a directional microwave antenna. This transmits back to the Cerra Punta mountain top video repeater site or the various direct receiver sites. The helicopter utilizes state of the art Global Positioning Satellites to keep the antenna properly aimed. This insures a high quality video or InfraRed image back at the Crisis Center. Each helicopter has a small equipment rack placed in the back where operators can view the pod’s image, control it’s field of view and record everything it views.



The microwave video repeater site is located at Cerra Punta Mountain. Since this is the highest point of elevation in the country, there is quite a bit of communications equipment located there. Care has to be taken to insure that the equipment already in place does not interfere with the new equipment. We also have to insure that the new equipment does not create any problems for any of the existing site equipment. All equipment mounted at this site is in industry standard 19” racks and is clearly labeled for fast and easy identification should servicing or upgrades be required.

Roof top antennas at the Public Safety Commision Building

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