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APD has revealed it is to occupy a two-storey building currently undergoing a £2m redevelopment to create a stunning, purpose-designed environment for one of the region’s leading digital businesses.
The company, which develops cutting-edge software for the emergency services and critical control operations, is taking over the landmark former Jobcentre Plus building on the corner of Market Place and South Church Side in Hull’s regenerated Old Town.
Northgate Public Services (NPS), a wholly owned NEC Corporation subsidiary, has today announced the acquisition of APD Communications, a leading software supplier to the emergency services, public safety and control room markets.
Technology pioneer APD Communications has been named among the winners in prestigious awards recognising the finest businesses in Hull and East Yorkshire. Hull-based APD claimed the Medium-sized Business of the Year award at the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards.
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for the Medium Business of the Year Award at the Hull Business Awards 2018.
The prestigious event recognises the most successful businesses in the region at a luxury awards event, which is to be held on 15 November 2018 at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel, Hull
Thousands of control rooms have joined together in an extraordinary celebration of their work as the unseen frontline of the emergency services.
They threw their support behind the first International Control Room Week saluting the critical role played by the 999 teams dealing with traumatic and stressful situations on a daily basis.
Thousands of behind-the-scenes heroes of the emergency services are joining the first International Control Room Week.
The week is aimed at raising public awareness of the life-saving and life-changing work of staff in emergency services control rooms, with almost 170 critical control operations the length and breadth of Britain taking part.
Software pioneer APD Communications has announced an alliance with fellow technology market leader RapidDeploy to provide a complete hosted solution for control room operations globally.
Technology leader APD Communications has claimed a prestigious prize for a world-first digital solution that is pioneering the way forward for emergency services organisations.
APD’s Cloud Control Room technology took the Best Digital Innovation award at the 2018 Digital Awards, Hull and East Yorkshire’s celebration of tech excellence and innovation.
Taking place from October 22-28, International Control Room Week will raise awareness of the life-saving and life-changing work of staff in emergency services control rooms who deal with harrowing and distressing situations on a daily basis.
Danny Herbert, a very special young man from Bognor Regis, has been highly commended at the APD Control Room Awards for his work at Sussex Police – at only seven years old.
Our technology – the Cloud Control Room – was chosen by the judging panel as one of three finalists for the Best Digital Innovation award. As an agile business that serves 69% of UK police forces, we’re proud that our latest innovation – the Cloud Control Room – which offers a totally new way of operating critical control rooms – has been given this recognition.
We're delighted to have unveiled a striking work of art we've created, that reflects the incredible work of our customers in the emergency services. As a pioneering Hull-based business, we chose our city’s Centre for Digital Innovation (C4DI) tech hub as the launch venue for this colourful illustration of our work supporting emergency services organisations.
Our Managing Director, Mike Isherwood has taken over leadership of a public safety industry group with a mission to promote and support innovative small businesses.
APD Communications are proud to announce that it has become a member of the European Emergency Number Association, EENA.
EENA is a non-governmental organisation based in Brussels, Belgium with the mission to contribute to improving the safety and security of people. This also aligns with APD Communications core values which is to help organisations protect and preserve society with secure, intelligent and connected control room technologies.
We've been shortlisted as a finalist with our hosted control room technology in the 'Best use of Control Room Systems' category, and our very own Ermin Huremovic is a finalist for the 'Young Engineer of the Year' at the prestigious International Critical Communications Awards. We'll attend the awards ceremony on 15 May 2018, which is taking place in Berlin, where the winner will be unveiled.
Cortex, our control room ICCS, has been accredited by the Network Approval Testing Service (NATS) and is the first to be officially certified to support the Emergency Services Network.
The unsung heroes of Britain’s blue light services have been honoured in the first national awards for control room staff. The APD Control Room Awards 2018 celebrate the extraordinary and selfless contribution of behind-the-scenes staff who play a critical role in the response to emergency incidents day in and day out, often dealing with harrowing and distressing situations.
We're delighted to announce that we're backing the drive to develop a new generation of tech talent by supporting Hull’s employer-led school. In light of our position as a market leader developing software for emergency services organisations and mission-critical operations, we've become a Major Partner of the pioneering Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC).
Shortlisted entries recognised the extraordinary, behind-the-scenes contribution of control room staff in serving society, keeping the public safe and secure, and responding to the most difficult and harrowing situations and emergency incidents.
The Control Room Awards, which we launched in November 2017, are the first to recognise and reward the unsung heroes within critical control rooms across the UK. The event has been endorsed by several emergency services organisations, including British APCO, and is being supported by a handful of generous sponsors – telent as the platinum partner, alongside Sopra Steria, Seed Software, ICCRA and Red Box Recorders.
Two pioneering technology companies have been announced as the latest sponsors of the first national Control Room Awards. Both organisations have long-standing relationships within emergency and critical control rooms.
We've been shortlisted as a finalist in the 'Innovation of the Year' category at the respected Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards and will attend a ceremony on 8 December, where the winner will be unveiled. This comes just three weeks after being crowned winner of the 'Innovation and Technology' award at the Hull Daily Mail Business Awards on 16 November.
Today, we launched the first awards to recognise and celebrate unsung heroes working behind the scenes in control rooms across the UK. The awards are the first to recognise the achievements of control room staff in their day-to-day duties, often dealing with harrowing and distressing situations.
Mission critical solutions specialist APD Communications is supporting a Wiltshire Police team on a sponsored cycle ride to raise funds for a guide dogs charity.
Partially-sighted Anthony Bristowe, Police Call Handler with the Wiltshire force, is aiming to raise £5,000 for the Guide Dogs Organisation by embarking on a 250-mile journey from Land’s End to Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.
At an exclusive awards event held on 7 September in Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - APD was crowned the winner of the Best Hardware with its fleet and telematics technology, Artemis.
Cutting-edge technology developed by Hull-based APD Communications is to be pushed to the limits during an internationally-renowned rally.
During emergencies, alert systems can provide a crucial way of conveying important, potentially lifesaving information to members of the public. The UK Government has committed to evaluating how our existing alert systems can be improved.
New voice technologies are fast emerging across the digital landscape, in all walks of life – from home to work, in business and leisure.
Dominating the new voice trend is the changing nature of online search. Experts predict that by 2020, 50% of all searches will be conducted by voice as opposed to through text-input as we’ve known since the inception of the modern internet.
One of the real challenges of transiting to ESN is first and foremost delivering business as usual. Control rooms up and down the country must be able to continue doing their job, with zero downtime, despite the technical changes.
Facial recognition technology is arguably one of the biggest current obsession of the tech industry and whilst the industry seems to be split on its benefits vs intrusion - the work that is going on around embedding into live into Control Room's is fascinating.
Every year, professionals from across the public safety field meet at the EENA Conference for 3 days packed full of inspiring sessions, insightful presentations and innovative exhibitions.
This year, over 900 experts came together in Dubrovnik from over 60 countries, all with a desire to learn, share ideas and improve people’s safety.
As part of our commitment to the control room community, we're proud to support Police Scotland as a sponsor of the C3 Division awards scheme which recognised the good work, dedication and many achievements of staff across the division.
We’ve pledged our support behind the Embrace charity to help them continue to deliver the great work they do of mending hearts, minds and families when children have been affected by crime.
We take a look back over the tech packed two days of the BAPCO Annual Conference 2019 – seeking out the trends, the latest tech and what themes are emerging from the public safety sector that may impact the Control Room.
The pace of change facing the emergency services is unprecedented. Shifts in technology, an ageing and more diverse society, political uncertainty, continued severe threat levels of international terrorism as well as reduced budgets can only put extra demand on the emergency services.
We take a look at how the emergency services created a real celebration behind International Women’s Day and shine the spotlight on just some of those special moments.
As part of our commitment to the fire and rescue service, we’re proud to announce our title as Gold Partner for the prestigious National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Spring Conference, taking place 9-10 April 2019 in Leeds, UK.
The HMICFRS have inspected 14 services in the first tranche of inspections. In carrying out their inspections of all 45 fire and rescue services in England, they answer three main questions regarding the effectiveness, efficiency and culture of the fire and rescue service.
Technology is developing at an alarming rate. Five years ago, who would have thought we’d be tweeting, sending texts and reading the latest headlines from our watches? With these technological advances marching ahead in our personal lives, we look at five ways they could also change contact patterns in today’s control room.
As the Senior Contact Manager for West Yorkshire Police, Tom Donohue has heard every kind of call imaginable - the good, the bad and the ugly. We caught up with Tom just after the Christmas and New Year period - which is notoriously busy for emergency control rooms like his - to talk about his role in contact, increasing demand and the changing landscape - driven by technology.
We take a brief look at the implications facing the emergency services under several of the current possible Brexit scenarios.
As we head towards this point in the year, it's a good time to think about those less fortunate than us for whom, the festive period represents increased hours and very often increased demand for service.
Let’s talk demand, collaboration and budget restrictions for the emergency services: an interview with Gordon Meldrum QPM.
The project to create a £1.2bn 4G Emergency Services Network (ESN), to be run by EE, has been under way for three years, but has run into several delays. In this feature, we look at the latest ESN updates from network testing, coverage and devices.
In our final part of our future technology trends learning series, we take a look at so called ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Smart Homes’ and what their impact may be on our emergency services.
In part 4 of this learning series, we focus on two very different technologies - chatbots and robots. We’ll cover each one separately, first explaining what they are before going into case studies of how emergency services organisations are applying them today.
We’re proud to be a Platinum Partner of British APCO – the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials. This month, we’ve spoken to Ian Thompson – CEO of the British APCO – to find out what’s new for the organisation and its members.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to create mission-critical software for emergency control rooms? We take you behind the scenes to meet Usharani Arugonda, one of our talented SQA Engineers to find out just that.
This month, we’re going behind the scenes with Paul Bryans, our Senior Service Delivery Engineer.
We’ve taken 5 minutes to speak to Paul about his role here at APD, which involves working in control rooms across the UK and around the world.
As we launch International Control Room Week – which is taking place 22 – 28 October 2018, we’re looking at ways to help you stay healthy in the control room.
We asked our very own expert, Sara McDougall, to share her top tips. Sara has over 16 years’ operational experience in emergency services’ control rooms and now works with our customers as the APD Training Consultant.
Self-driving vehicles hold the promise to improve road safety and offer new mobility options to millions of people across the globe. Whether they’re saving lives or helping people run errands, commute to work, or drop children off at school, fully self-driving vehicles hold enormous potential to transform people’s lives.
Trump’s presidential visit to the UK, the World Cup, the hottest summer since 1976, biological weapon attack, wildfires, festivals and Pride parade created one the of busiest, most demanding times of the year for all our emergency services.
Mental Health in the emergency services is often largely focused on front line staff i.e. the paramedics, firefighters and police officers. However, little is known of the impact on call handlers who make critical decisions in assessing what type of emergency response to dispatch.
With the developments in virtual, augmented and mixed realities continuing to offer new opportunities for a multitude of applications, it is not unsurprising that their potential for use within the emergency services is being explored across the globe.
With cash strapped and resources tight, emergency services are constantly trying to reduce nuisance 999 calls - but how do you stop some callers wasting your time.
The police, fire, ambulance services – amongst others - can use social media sites to disseminate safety advice and raise situational awareness across the population, which can ultimately help save lives and protect society. But how do you get started? Find out more in this latest blog post.
APD’s Artemis solution helps police forces, councils and local governments improve the way their vehicles are driven and their resources are deployed. Previously, individual customers had to install and manage the hardware, related WAN and mobile data/SIMs needed to run Artemis — but that’s all changed since APD partnered with UKCloud to offer Artemis as a service, hosted on its UK-sovereign, UK-assured platform.
Superseding the robust and proven platform of its predecessor, INCA CoOrdinator, Artemis was developed to meet the increasing demands of the UK Police, in line with the ACPO ITS One Box Project.
In March 2014, North Yorkshire Police decided to extend Aspire across all Front Counters in their force area. The aim was to better support Front Counter staff in providing an improved customer service.
Northamptonshire Police needed to make savings of £17 million by 2015. And a further £23 million by 2017. The Force have had to look hard at its operations with an ambitious transformation programme underway. Artemis has helped make savings and increase efficiency across their fleet.
At the heart of two control centres, Dubai International Airport have chosen APD’s Cortex system. The Emirates Group, which includes one of the world’s major airlines relies on the Integrated Communications Control System. It enables the control room operators to manage all radio,telephone, intercom and web services. Not to mention linking 6,500 ground staff throughout the airport.