For the past four months we have been working with WirelessWERX to help launch the company at ASIS 2009. WirelessWERX has a product we all will want. The team makes it possible for 911 dispatchers to find you when you call 911 from your mobile phone.

I know what you’re thinking:  They can find me. I have GPS on my phone.  Well, yes, you can be found in a broad sense.  You can be found within 150 meters — or 1 1/2 football fields — of your location, but most often it’s within 300 or 1000 meters.  And, the first responders won’t know what building you’re in or what floor you’re on or what room you’re in.  In densely population areas, like the housing tracts here in Southern California, or in multistory apartment buildings or campus dormitories, the lack of building / floor / room information means first responders are knocking on lots of doors before they find you. The existing 911 system was built for landline phones which are tied to physical addresses.

To see how WirelessWERX’s product, watch this video that we worked on with our friends at Loma Media.

WirelessWERX is deployed at University Lofts at Denver University and the Denver 911 Command Center.   A home version of the product is in the works.