Ever since geographical information systems began working their way into police and fire departments across the country, city administrators have used the tool to keep critical information about the buildings in their jurisdiction at the ready, any time emergency responders need to access them. For those blueprints and maps to be useful, they need to be updated. Often.<\/p>\n
Alex Bellak is the GIS administrator for the city of Troy, Michigan. Until he found San Francisco-based Resilio Inc., he updated maps, floor plans and information about hazardous material for the city\u2019s buildings via the \u201csneakernet,\u201d \u2014 manually loading software updates onto thumb drives, and then installing the updates truck by truck. That was a cumbersome technique.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt any time during the day, those vehicles could be out responding to an incident,\u201d Bellak says. \u201cSending out an individual with flash drives is problematic, because you never knew what vehicles would be in the fire stations at what time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellak needed a better way. But first, he had to decide whether to rely on a cloud-based file sharing infrastructure or some kind of local platform. The cloud was out, he decided. The data was too sensitive and the cloud too prone to security problems.<\/p>\n
Enter Resilio Connect. The peer-to-peer file distribution software is now installed throughout the fire department\u2019s computers and its fleet of vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe great thing about Resilio Platform is that it\u2019s real-time updating,\u201d Bellak says. It was also easy to deploy and easy to scale. His computers push out about 7 gigabytes of data at once, and 13,000 individual files. \u201cAt any one time, if one of those computers isn\u2019t available or off the network, as soon as it gets back on the network it immediately continues the updating process without locking or corrupting the data. For us, it was head and shoulders above the other products. It\u2019s really a turnkey solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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