The Daily Herald has an article about the City of Elgin implementing a plan to upgrade the public safety radio network to a new Starcom21 system:
Elgin plans to purchase a state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar police and fire radio system that would more than double the current, aging system’s capacity, and would allow emergency responders to better communicate with their counterparts in other communities.
The city council’s committee of the whole gave its OK Tuesday to move forward with a nearly $11.7 million agreement with Motorola Solutions, based in Schaumburg, to purchase a so-called P25 interoperable communications system that uses the STARCOM21 radio system.
The agreement also includes a fire station alerting system and a next-generation 911 system that will eventually be able to accept text messages, videos and photos sent via cellphone, said Pat Hughes, large projects manager for Motorola.
