Case Study
West Metro Fire Protection District Increases Bandwidth for Advanced Technologies
A Sierra Wireless ® Mobile Workforce Solution BACKGROUND West Metro Fire Protection District is a special multi-jurisdictional district west of Denver, Colorado. The state’s second-largest fire and emergency medical services provider, West Metro protects property with a market value in excess of $24 billion in a service area that includes the cities of Lakewood, Morrison, Littleton; and Golden, Jefferson and Douglas Counties. West Metro Fire Protection District Increases Bandwidth for Advanced T echnologies CUSTOMER CRITICAL CHALLENGE ? Legacy 800 MHz radio system for mobile communications did not offer the bandwidth to support deployment of the latest dispatch, medical device and data technologies. ? Fire crews relied on tear-sheets for call details, paper maps for directio