Motorola has prototype equipment readyto go. In Miami, Unisys Corp. installed Fujitsu Ltd. pen-based laptops andsubcontracted to Motorola to install the tower, the backbone RF networkinfrastructure, and its Spectra radios for voice. Unisys also developeda message switch on an Oracle Corp. database to collect mobile data, reformatqueries for the FBI's NCIC, and link to a Unisys mainframe, said Maj. JosephLongueira, Miami police commander of support services and planning and research. The system gave Miami police the ability to query driver's license informationand receive a response in 10 seconds.
Officers also can do accident andincident reports on the squad car laptops.
Miami also plans to upgrade its system. But like many urban police departments, Miami realizes that giving its policequick access to central data is not enough. The city is working on the back-officesystems, integrating its databases and improving its data mapping, so thatdata makes sense from one system to the next. It's a massive, multifaceted problem. You are talking about thousands of data elements that are not all storedthe same way.