The Rangecast WebScanner Technical Presentation

The Rangecast WebScanner How it Works: The Internet Based Police Scanner

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],You can pool your 22 scanners amongst everyone at the company. Those scanners sitting in front of one chair at the assignment desk, and at the remote locations in Springfield, Xenia (and possibly Piqua), can be monitored by anyone at any desk at the office, at home, on the road or anywhere in the world. All you need is a web browser to listen. No longer does just one person have access and control of the scanners. Now everyone and anyone does!

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Everyone can configure what they want to listen to without affecting anyone else. If one reporter wants to listen to Dayton PD East but a photographer wants to only listen to Montgomery Sheriff, it doesn’t matter. One person’s channel settings (on/off/hold) does not affect another’s. Because each user is “filtering” rather than “controlling” the scanners there is no concern of channels being shut off by one staffer that another staffer desires to monitor. If there’s ever a need to physically hold the scanner on a channel or re-program a channel, one staffer can be tasked with that ability.

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Because Rangecast is browser based and does not require any special software, each reporter, photographer, videographer and editor can use Rangecast at his desk at the office, at home, or on the road with a laptop . . . Anywhere in Ohio or around the world. We are developing cell-based mobile apps for Rangecast but release dates are uncertain.

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],With Rangecast you can “Go Back in Time” and listen to communications that were missed, a moment ago or hours or even days ago. With this technology you can easily jump back to the genesis of an event –the first fire dispatch to get a street address that was missed for example or the reason for a call for the SWAT team to a building perhaps- to gather critical information for a story.

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],With Rangecast you can set up scanners wherever you want and have them accessible to anyone anywhere. A huge benefit to this is that you can set up your scanners at your remote offices for the best reception possible of those areas. No longer will you simply hope for good reception for outlying cities and counties. Now you can set up scanners in those areas and know reception will be great for all.

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],At newsrooms around the country one assignment desk editor will decide he wants to lockout or delete certain channels that the next editor or reporter wants to listen to. Or he or she simply presses keys trying to hold or scan and ends up completely disabling the scanner or important channels in the scanner. With Rangecast no one needs to touch the scanners. They simply are to be left alone and everyone in the office listens to the channels they want with the easy to use web browser player.*

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Need to take a break or a phone call? Simply press the pause key and no transmissions will be missed. They’ll queue up and wait for your return. ,[object Object],Want to skip over unimportant transmissions and not hear them in their entirety? Simply press the Skip key at anytime.

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Clip and save a single transmission or sequence of transmissions and e-mail them. ,[object Object],Save an event such as a chase to a channel for later review and comment. ,[object Object],Incorporate a custom profile (with limited functionality) on your company web site to draw traffic and keep them there with 24-hour live access to the news as it happens!

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Reporters and others can post audio blogs about stories they are developing or post follow-up information in audio form. Readers/viewers/listeners can hear their favorite reporters post notes about stories at any time of the day and play back a sequence of reports just like scanner transmissions. All the reporter needs is a microphone connected

Benefits of a Rangecast System ,[object Object],Never before have advanced scanners been so easy to operate! Now anyone can run a Rangecast web page and listen to exactly what they want to hear with about 5 minutes of training.

Pricing for a Secure Hub System A Secure Hub system prevents another Rangecast entity from importing the Dayton content into their own players/profiles without permission. (Rangecast and its representatives may use a temporary log-in for demonstration purposes.) ,[object Object],For Internal Use Only: 22-24 Scanners with up to access up to 25 staffers $500/month or $5000 prepaid per year prepaid in advance. ,[object Object],To Embed a Player (one profile) into either one or all three of the media web sites: $1250/month; $13,500 pre-paid per year.

Benefits of a Secure Hub System Provides all benefits of Rangecast Corporate, plus this will allow for hundreds of users online at one time with the following limitations: ,[object Object]

Inability to create profiles – They get the one screen that’s presented to them

Limited Channels – Company decides which channels to give them access to (36 max)

Optional Limit of time users may remain online before they are dropped -must log in again,[object Object]

Provides a real-time window into the news, live as it happens

Compelling, action-packed, feature that will keep customers glued to the Company web site(s).

Ability to embed player on a page filled with ads

Ability to embed audio ads in audio stream (revenue share with Rangecast)

Ability to build other web features around the player such as a crime-scene locator, most-wanted lists, etc.,[object Object]

Proposed System MultiSync Technology With Rangecast’s Multi-sync technology we would program, for example, all 12 Dayton scanners with the exact same frequencies and trunking talkgroups. As one scanner receives, for instance, Dayton PD East, it alerts all the other radios to ignore that channel. In this manner we insure an extraordinarily high percentage of coverage of radio traffic in the region.

Proposed System Optional On-Site Installation, Testing & Training While we are sure that the company’s IT staff can handle the system installation if so desired, but having our team on-site we will insure a timely and smooth transition and installation (working in concert with your IT staff) and we will also provide testing and training. We will also handle all scanner programming which does require inclusion of special Geo-coding tags in the alpha memory of the scanners for optimal Rangecast performance. Rangecast will also bring temporary scanners to be used during the one to two day transition of your current scanners to the new system.

Proposed System Installation/Testing/Training Price: $5000 - 7500 -Depending on whether two or three staffers, one site for three days, including travel time but not including airfare/hotel/car rental costs). Number of staffers required to be determined after further discussion with client.

SUGGESTIONS FOR EXPLORING THE RANGECAST LIVE DEMO ,[object Object], Observe that you are monitoring real-time radio traffic from multiple locations - in this case, California, Nevada, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and even Japan. Rangecast lets you simultaneously monitor multiple channels broadcasting anywhere in the world. ,[object Object],Observe that Rangecast makes monitoring large numbers of channels comfortable and efficient. Rangecast plays all transmissions one after another, even if they happened at the same time. "Talk-over" cannot occur.

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