MuniWireless

Beaverton, Oregon has launched a wireless public safety network blanketing the entire city. The city, located seven miles west of Portland, is home to 82,000 residents and is Oregon’s fifth largest city.

Invictus Networks, a local wireless Integrator, and BelAir Networks, aprovider of mobile mesh solutions, worked with the city to design and deployment the network.

The Beaverton Information Systems Department installed, deployed, and ran live tests within “a matter of months,” according to BelAir’s press release.

The city fitted 40 police cars with wireless computers, enabling officers to access information from their desktop computers, the city network and the Portland Police Data System in real-time from the field. Officers in the field will also be able to issue electronic traffic tickets using PDAs that communicate data back to the office.

The network employs BelAir’s high-performance BelAir200 and Belair100 multi-service nodes.