FDNY Fully Operational with New Records System from Aether; The New York City Fire Department Completes Deployment of Aether Systems FireRMS Web.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OWINGS MILLS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004 Aether aether: see ether, in physics and astronomy. Aether god of whole atmosphere. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 42] See : Air Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:AETH), a leading provider of wireless and mobile data solutions, today announced completion and system acceptance for the deployment of its Web-based fire records management system, FireRMS(TM) Web at FDNY FDNY Fire Department New York (New York City, NY, USA) FDNY Fort Drum, New York (US Army) . The system is used to manage the thousands of NFIRS NFIRS National Fire Incident Reporting System (USFA/NFIC) (National Fire Incident Reporting System The National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) is a system established by the National Fire Data Center of the United States Fire Administration (USFA) in order to carry out the intentions of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-498). ) reports generated by the 450 fire companies covering the five boroughs of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and protecting a population of over 8 million. The department faced significant challenges when they initially began their search for a fire records management system. The system selected had to connect 245 stations spread across the five boroughs to a central database handling over a half a million fire related incidents annually. The department required a vendor who could support the migration from their legacy systems, and provide training for the implementation of FireRMS Web to be used by the thousands of firefighters to record critical information related to each incident. To accommodate this demand, FDNY turned to Aether's FireRMS Web fire records management software. Aether's FireRMS Web leverages the most current technology to offer the ultimate in connectivity and scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable. scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it . It runs completely within a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and represents the very best in user-interface design. Users simply log in through their Web browser and once connected through a secure link can create and update critical incident reports or review management statistics and reports. Using the Web made it extremely easy to deploy compared to a traditional client-server environment over a wide-area network. Furthermore, the use of a standard Internet browser See Web browser. eliminated the need to install and manage custom software at each station, a huge savings in time and resources. The largest and most demanding metropolitan departments in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. require unique solutions to address their agency's specific needs. From its core, FireRMS Web has been engineered to be highly customizable to meet the individual needs of these metro and regional departments. At FDNY, FireRMS Web addresses those needs and provides a powerful tool for the collection and management of the high numbers of incident reports created by firefighters responding to calls around the city. The richness of the data collected provides the city with comprehensive information to help improve services for the public and enhance firefighter safety. About Aether Systems Inc. Aether Systems provides wireless and mobile data solutions that increase efficiency and productivity for the Transportation, Fleet Management, and Public Safety markets. Aether's transportation and fleet management solutions, in use by over 600 fleets, include the industry-leading MobileMax(TM) multi-mode system. MobileMax automatically switches between land-based and satellite communications to ensure complete coverage and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. communications. Aether's public safety solutions help hundreds of Police and Fire departments in North America leverage the power of wireless for improved service to the public. The PacketCluster family of products provides officers in the field with empowering applications including direct access to motor vehicle and warrant information within seconds, and paperless reporting systems. 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