EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WHITE PAPER

Our Credentials

For almost three decades, our business has revolved around designing and building  “Starship” style control rooms for  private sector and federal, state and local government agencies.  Since 9-11, our main focus has shifted  to emergency management centers. Having been in the industry for so many years, we understand the needs and idiosyncrasies of each environment and have created cost-effective  easy to acquire packages.

The most pressing issue in emergency management is saving lives!

Creating a user friendly environment that allows the responders to interact with each other efficiently is the first step.  Americon's Communicator furniture solutions create unobstructed line-of-site eye contact.

Why Americon?

First you need a budget!  Americon is a multi-faceted company offering three distinct assets: Design Services, Technical Furniture Manufacturing and Audio-visual Integration. We are in a unique position because all of our departments collaborate with the client on the project. The ability to sit face to face and     discuss cause and affect issues internally speeds the process tremendously. The faster we get answers back to the client, the faster the client can react. Providing a total solution circumvents many of the normal bureaucratic hurtles and red tape that are created when a different contractor performs each piece of the puzzle.

Why are there different packaged solutions?

There are very large federal and state centers for monitoring the many aspect of a disaster. Usually, multiple agencies come together to resolve problems and implement solutions based on the situation. The majority of the time, these rooms are unoccupied.  Smaller emergency management centers for police, fire and transportation are spread all across the country and are considered 24 x 7 environments. Their needs may be similar in basic function but they may have very different ergonomic and audiovisual needs.   The furniture, as an example, needs to support a twenty-four hour a day operation.

What is Visionmaster?

The Visionmaster is our answer to a self-contained video wall system. Incorporated into it as standard features are audiovisual cabinetry; DLP Rear-projection cubes or narrow mullion LCD panels; a video wall processor that converts the video array into a single palette, integrated sound system, along with  record/playback equipment. An optional video conferencing package can be added. The Visionmaster can simultaneously show running video (live TV, video-conference, cameras, satellite, VCR and DVD); stand alone computer video and network provided applications. We have a number of standard packages based on the size and shape of the video wall. Many Visionmaster systems can be installed in a single day.