Integrate Your MOTORBO Two-Way Radios with Your VB400 Body Worn Camera

Thankfully, in most industries, emergencies are relatively rare. However, the effectiveness of Health and Safety can itself cause a catalogue of problems when it comes to recording incidents. When the unexpected happens, people’s minds are focused on dealing with the situation, not with capturing vital evidence. Consequently, many details that emerge from managing aggressive behaviour or responding to on-site accidents are consigned to memory. Notoriously unreliable, memory is legally problematic, and can lead to the dreaded “he said, she said” scenario. As an impartial witness to events, cameras are highly trustworthy. As such, having a recording system integrated into your communications package can be invaluable.

To help teams in emergency response situations, Motorola Solutions have made it possible to link MOTOTRBO radios with VB400 body-worn cameras via a secure Bluetooth connection. This pairing can be instigated by pushing a button. However, given that most emergency situations catch people off-guard, if the Fall Alert or Lone Worker setting is activated, the pairing is automatic. If the worst should happen, the two-way radio automatically sends an emergency alert and the camera begins recording. With automation between a MOTOTRBO radio and a VB400 body-worn camera, workers can focus on dealing with the task at hand without having to worry about what comes next.

What comes next, of course, is a heap of follow-up processes. These involve reviewing the incident, compiling an incident report, and creating training programmes to prevent it happening again. Knowing who or what is responsible is crucial to all of these, and real-time video evidence is often the only way of fully understanding this. Disasters are not random events. There is always a sequence of errors that combine into a catastrophe, and understanding the whole journey is vital. Video offers second-by-second insight into how a problem develops and unfolds, providing unparalleled insight and offering future safeguarding opportunities.

Integrated technology is about boosting the effects of investment. If you have invested in two-way radios as a safety option, and have invested in VB400 with VideoManager 16.2 or newer cameras for accountability purposes, pairing the two amplifies their capabilities. Automation is the key to this, especially in the cause of the Fall Alert trigger system. Features such as this maximise the benefits of the two devices.

It is the MOTOTRBO radio that controls the pairing, with over fifteen compatible models available. This ample choice means a tailored radio for every application, with one camera to suit them all.