The Ohio Emergency Management Agency delivered one of their Mobile Satellite Trailers to the Henry County EMA, in Napoleon, Ohio. The Ohio EMA is strategically placing critical assets in the regions throughout the state to speed up the deployment when the need arises. The Mobile Satellite Trailer will allow for communications to those agencies in need, when a lack of continuity with cellphones, wifi, internet, etc. is interrupted during a cyber hack, overloading of the systems or when the power goes down.
With an auto-point 1.2 meter parabolic dish feeds and a wireless broadband router with dual 2.4 GHz, 8 dBi omni-directional wireless LAN antennae, these trailers are capable of providing a discrete 1,000 foot radius wifi signal for as many as 30 users. A single axle, 1500 pound trailer comes with the power requirements to run the trailer. A stand-alone 1,000 watt portable generator provides ample power to run the satellite for the much needed communications capabilities.
The Henry County Emergency Management Director, Tracy Busch has been working with the Communication’s Branch of the Ohio EMA for some time to be able to deploy such a mobile unit and once they were obtained by the state of Ohio, Director Busch wanted to be able to house the Satellite Unit in his county, to provide the spot resource in the time of need and not have to wait two to three hours for deployment. Henry County EMA will be reaching out to Region 1 EMA Directors to let them know of the mobile resource available in their back yard.
