1. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS designs and supplies video conferencing systems, passive
and active InfraRed imaging arrays, gyro mounted video systems, and total airborne surveillance
solutions. METROCOM provides custom audio and video surveillance equipment and systems.
This includes body bugs, custom covert microphones, compact portable bugging repeaters, and
total audio and video surveillance solutions.
Let us first show you the Crisis Command Center built for the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The operations portion of the Crisis Center comprises of a two story
building adjacent to the Public Safety Commission building.
Additionally, the 11th floor of the Public Safety Commission building
houses all of the various RF gear, microwave components, and
distribution equipment.
This is the ‘War Room’ in it’s
early stages of construction.
The room has maps of the
Commonwealth and it’s major
cities on the long walls. There is
also a window that looks into the
War Room from the second story Press Office.

2. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
This view is of the completed room looking
from the Governor’s chair. A telephone at
each seat position provides cabinet
members with private communications, or
they can be used to microphone each
person, for a group wide conference call.
The room is equipped with clocks covering
all time zones, white boards for drawing,
and computers interfaced to the various
Government systems.
This view is facing the Governor’s
chair. There are Barco projectors
hanging from the ceiling. They project
to opposite ends of the room so
everyone can see the images without
neck strain. A bank of video monitors
behind the Governor, monitor various
video feeds including Commercial
Broadcast, images from the helicopters,
National Weather Service, and video
conferencing. The last of these are
linked to the Crisis Command Center
via microwave transmitters and
receivers.
The National Weather Service has the microwave antenna mounted on the tower behind the structure.
The antenna is covered
with a dome to make it
less susceptible to wind.

3. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
The top picture is of the Crisis Center’s Control Room. All equipment is mounted in industry
standard 19” rack mount cabinets.
The bottom picture is of the Crisis Center's Multi-Agency Communications Room.
Workstations are arranged in user friendly configurations. All aspects of the Crisis Command
Center are designed for optimum efficiency and reduced worker stress. This is not just limited to
workplace arrangement of equipment, but includes the facility's lighting and sound
environments. All aspects of the operation were taken in to account in the design phase.

4. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
This is the completed Press Room.
There is a bank of monitors located on the left wall. These are switched from the Crisis Center’s
Control Room. This insures that images or videos of a sensitive nature, do not accidentally get to the
media services. These monitors can contain images from Public Officials, the government's
helicopters or video conferencing systems. The monitors can contain images off the various
computer systems such as the Emergency Management System and Weather Information System or
the video from the TV Media currently being broadcast. All of the signals on these monitors are
made available for the press and media to re-broadcast or record by simply plugging their Electronic
News Gathering trucks into the connections provided in the Crisis Center parking lot.

5. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
Both color video and passive InfraRed images can be supplied to the Crisis Command Center from two
of the Police Department owned helicopters. A small gyro-stabilized pod is mounted beneath the
helicopter.
Also mounted on the underside is a
directional microwave antenna. This
transmits back to the Cerra Punta
mountain top video repeater site or the
various direct receiver sites. The
helicopter utilizes state
of the art Global Positioning Satellites to
keep the antenna properly aimed. This
insures a high quality video or InfraRed
image back at the Crisis Center. Each
helicopter has a small equipment rack
placed in the back where operators can
view the pod’s image, control it’s field of
view and record everything it views.

6. METROCOM COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale Jet Center
1100 Lee Wagner Boulevard, Suite #311
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315
The microwave video repeater site is located at Cerra Punta Mountain. Since this is the highest point of
elevation in the country, there is quite a bit of communications equipment located there. Care has to be
taken to insure that the equipment already in place does not interfere with the new equipment. We also have
to insure that the new equipment does not create any problems for any of the existing site equipment. All
equipment mounted at this site is in industry standard 19” racks and is clearly labeled for fast and easy
identification should servicing or upgrades be required.
Roof top antennas at the Public Safety Commision Building