At the April 2022 meeting of the Project Oversite Committee funding was approved to create a network of public safety radio hotspots. These hotspots will enable radios to receive periodic updates to the firmware and programming. Hotspots will be located in various locations throughout Washtenaw County to serve our public safety partners. The current process for updating radios requires the Consortium to deploy personnel to each public safety location in order to complete the updates. This causes delays in updating the radios used by our members. The WECC in seeking solutions to this problem has developed permanent hotspots to address this problem. Once the project is completed, public safety agencies will either have a hotspot located at their station, or have one a short distance away. Personnel will only need to bring their radios within range of these Wi-Fi hotspots to receive a signal. Once the radio comes within range of the Wi-Fi hotspot, programming will automatically download to the radio to receive the update(s).
