The Smith County ESD2 Board of Commissioners approved the Information Technology Services (ITS) Department to implement a new E-Meetings system for the ESD2 Board of Commissioners. The ESD2 ITS Department selected Community by Diligent. Local Government Agenda Software For Intelligent Innovation Community by Diligent is an intuitive, easy-to-use agenda and meeting management software that enables ESD2 […]
The current radios deployed are almost 10 years old and are end of life with parts no longer being manufactured. The ESD2 Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of 275 800mhz handheld radios from Motorola at the November 2nd meeting. Smith County ESD2 IT Staff are certified to program the radios so Smith County ESD2 […]
Since the beginning of the ESD2 Microwave network (see: Smith County ESD2 ITS implements new microwave network) the IT team with the approval of the board of commissioners has added an additional 7 facilities and one relay point. The network now connects 9 stations and the administration office to the primary server room. The microwave […]
The ESD2 ITS department has implemented a new fire records management system called ResponseMaster. ResponseMaster allows us to manage all areas of operations including scheduling, hydrants, occupancy management and inspections, checkoffs, training tracking, and most importantly incident notification and reporting. The system receives a notice from the Smith County SO CAD system and starts an […]
In an effort to improve network connectivity to our rural facilities while reducing the reoccurring cost the ITS department has installed a microwave network for data connectivity between 2 facilities and our server room. The ITS department has developed an expansion plan to service all facilities with this network. The project cost for the 3 […]