Setcom Corporation, a manufacturer of intercom systems and headsets for fire apparatus, announced a feature that allows the Liberator wireless headset to directly connect to most Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.
With the touch of a button, the Liberator headset connects to a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, making it is easy to use and allows numerous ways for public safety personnel to communicate. The Liberator headset now becomes a command center on your head. Users can connect to:
- Up to 3 mobile radios
- A portable radio
- A cell phone
- Apparatus intercom system
- Entertainment audio source plugged into System 900 intercom or System 1300 intercom
The applications of this newest technology are vast and include:
- Interfacing a cell phone into a Battalion Chief’s vehicle command post communication system
- Allowing paramedics to easily speak over the phone with doctors while en route to the hospital
- Adding cell phone capabilities to a mobile command center intercom system
- Communicating with non-traditional information sources while on the fireground In addition to directly connecting the Liberator headset to a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, Setcom offers two other ways to connect to these types of devices:
1. Full Intercom Connection: The RSM-900CPI allows all intercom users to hear the audio from a cell phone and radio-transmit positions to speak to the phone. Easily switch between radios and the phone or monitor them all simultaneously.
2. Single Intercom Position Connection: The CPI-900SYS2 allows a user of any Setcom wired or wireless headset to hear and transmit to a Bluetooth device.
Because Setcom uses Bluetooth technology, it was the first and only company to pioneer this direct connection innovation for the fire service. No other current wireless vendor of fire apparatus communications systems will be able to replicate this feature because they do not use the Bluetooth standard in their headsets.
“The important applications that our customers have identified with this advancement have us very excited. Our engineering team listened to customer requirements and delivered a fantastic addition to our already cutting edge headset,” said James Roberts, Setcom President.
