Local high-tech firm tracks firefighters for safety, efficiency
Local start-up ERT Systems is using technological know-how to make firefighters across the country a little bit safer.Excerpt: Conceived from a chance encounter at a 2005 entrepreneurship conference, ERT Systems LLC and its product, OnSite ERT (emergency resource tracking) is helping fire departments around the country deploy their people more safely and efficiently.Their 4-year-old Ann Arbor-based business is still small, but gaining traction. Next week they will deliver their 16th system to the fire department of Rumson, N.J., the town where Bruce Springsteen lives.Carmichael is the technical guru. Ellis, who retired in 2005 as a division commander at the Fraser Fire Department, is the evangelist. He preaches to fire chiefs at national and regional trade shows, demonstrating how ERT’s system can prevent many of the 100 or so firefighting deaths each year in the United States.Read the rest of the story here.
Local start-up ERT Systems is using technological know-how to make firefighters across the country a little bit safer.
Excerpt:
Conceived from a chance encounter at a 2005 entrepreneurship conference, ERT Systems LLC and its product, OnSite ERT (emergency resource tracking) is helping fire departments around the country deploy their people more safely and efficiently.
Their 4-year-old Ann Arbor-based business is still small, but gaining traction. Next week they will deliver their 16th system to the fire department of Rumson, N.J., the town where Bruce Springsteen lives.
Carmichael is the technical guru. Ellis, who retired in 2005 as a division commander at the Fraser Fire Department, is the evangelist. He preaches to fire chiefs at national and regional trade shows, demonstrating how ERT’s system can prevent many of the 100 or so firefighting deaths each year in the United States.
Read the rest of the story here.
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