New monitors in EOC

The CDEM Group Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) and Horizons Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) are co-located and staffed within Horizons Regional House. Much of what we do is intelligence gathering, collating, assessing and disseminating information. In today's normal business and emergency management environments so much of the intelligence is received in electronic form. The need has emerged to be able to view this intelligence in electronic form too. It would be very difficult for example to re-draw the weather radar on a whiteboard. Other uses include monitoring of hydrographs, electronic log, web cameras, display of photos, media releases, Google Earth and Skype free video calling.

We managed to get a good deal on a couple of medium sized monitors (28") and a couple of 19" monitors with built-in winterms. So, we've bitten the bullet and popped them up in the EOC and also put Freeview decoders on the two larger monitors. This means we can monitor the news during events too. Yesterday we pulled the EOC to bits and put it all in place. I'm pretty happy with how things went and we had a bit of a tidy up of cables etc too.