CASE STUDY Australasian Safari IMPROVED COMMUNICATIONS TRANSFORM EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO MINUTES TOUGh ENDURANCE MOTORSPORT IMPROVES COMPETITOR SAFETY AND ORGANISATIONAl EFFICIENCY When you tackle Australia’s version of ‘Paris to Dakar’ on a motorbike through outback Western Australia, how much gear you carry matters. So many riders were reluctant to increase this load when a new digital two-way radio was introduced. That reluctance was overcome literally within days of deploying Motorola Solutions’ MOTOTRBO digital two-way radios. In the early stages of the race, a motorcyclist had a serious accident and activated the duress button. Using embedded GPS positioning, he was located and a helicopter deployed within six minutes. Under the previous communications system, the rider may

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