Group 3 developed
a web-based Intranet for the Metropolitan Police of Washington, DC that
would allow dispatchers to quickly and accurately dispatch officers to the
scene of an incident and would allow Lieutenants to track the whereabouts
of all squad cars.
The system uses Active Server Pages to
interact with an Oracle 8.0 database, a GIS database, call logger
software, and GPS positions of squad cars, all of which runs on a Sun
server and two Windows NT servers. One of the NT servers has Internet
Information Server 4.0 and will serve as the web server for the Intranet.
The wireless components of the network communicate using the CDPD
protocol.
This system is for one Patrol Service Area
(PSA) but can be scaled to include the entire city. This system could also
be used at any other police station.