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ListenUp creates A/V Command Center for Denver's Office of
Emergency Management
In the months leading up the Democratic National Convention, ListenUp Commercial was contracted to create a command-and-control A/V environment inside the newly created City and County of Denver Emergency Management Command Center — and they did it all in under six weeks!
“It was the fastest job I've ever done,” says ListenUp Commercial manager Jeff Largen, who oversaw the project. “It's a command center designed to hold more than 100 people, including everyone from local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel to local utilities to the fire department and paramedics. The Colorado Department of Transportation uses the
facility, too.”
ListenUp was given less than six weeks to come up with a design and install the system, which included a conference room and five offices adjacent to the central command center. There’s also a smaller command post, the Joint Intelligence Center (JIC).
“One of the reasons we got the job was our ability to complete it so fast,” says Jeff. “Because we had worked on similar systems in the past, we were able to have the design done in less than a week, and we were on site doing the install within two weeks of our first meeting.”
Emergency Management
In the months leading up the Democratic National Convention, ListenUp Commercial was contracted to create a command-and-control A/V environment inside the newly created City and County of Denver Emergency Management Command Center — and they did it all in under six weeks!
“It was the fastest job I've ever done,” says ListenUp Commercial manager Jeff Largen, who oversaw the project. “It's a command center designed to hold more than 100 people, including everyone from local, state, and federal law enforcement personnel to local utilities to the fire department and paramedics. The Colorado Department of Transportation uses the
facility, too.”
ListenUp was given less than six weeks to come up with a design and install the system, which included a conference room and five offices adjacent to the central command center. There’s also a smaller command post, the Joint Intelligence Center (JIC).
“One of the reasons we got the job was our ability to complete it so fast,” says Jeff. “Because we had worked on similar systems in the past, we were able to have the design done in less than a week, and we were on site doing the install within two weeks of our first meeting.”
High-def content all around
Each display in the facility is connected directly to its own Comcast HD cable box, which allows command center personnel to access CNN, MSNBC, The Weather Channel or any other TV news source of their choosing.
“They can monitor the news channels from anywhere in the building, which is really important to them” according to Jeff. . They can also bring up hundreds of live camera feeds from police, Colorado Department of Transportation and airport sources. These feeds merge into a fiber-optic network that pipes directly into the command center's network backbone, where it is distributed to four monitors located throughout the facility.
Five dedicated PCs are also connected and able to feed weather, traffic, satellite, PowerPoint, and other computer-driven imagery into the display system. “They can present a live weather map on any TV in the command center if they want to,” says Largen.
Each display in the facility is connected directly to its own Comcast HD cable box, which allows command center personnel to access CNN, MSNBC, The Weather Channel or any other TV news source of their choosing.
“They can monitor the news channels from anywhere in the building, which is really important to them” according to Jeff. . They can also bring up hundreds of live camera feeds from police, Colorado Department of Transportation and airport sources. These feeds merge into a fiber-optic network that pipes directly into the command center's network backbone, where it is distributed to four monitors located throughout the facility.
Five dedicated PCs are also connected and able to feed weather, traffic, satellite, PowerPoint, and other computer-driven imagery into the display system. “They can present a live weather map on any TV in the command center if they want to,” says Largen.
A permanent facility
The city received a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to help fund this project, and it’s important to note that the command center wasn’t just created for a one-time event. “They built this facility not just for the convention, but for any emergencies that might come along in the future,” Jeff notes. “Denver is America’s 25th largest city now, and it’s important to have this type of infrastructure in place.”
The city received a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to help fund this project, and it’s important to note that the command center wasn’t just created for a one-time event. “They built this facility not just for the convention, but for any emergencies that might come along in the future,” Jeff notes. “Denver is America’s 25th largest city now, and it’s important to have this type of infrastructure in place.”
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