Infinimode has announced a companion product to the Infinimux G4, a much smaller and compact unit dubbed the “G5”. The G5 looks like a radio control head, and is designed to be mounted on a dashboard, and includes capacity for a second control head elsewhere in the vehicle (such as at the tailgate of a chief officer’s vehicle or the back of an ambulance).
It supports only 6 radios or cellphones (versus the maximum 28 radios in a G4) but otherwise has many of the features of the G4 including remote control via laptop, pre-sets for programming, scripted commands, and bomb-proof reliability.
We are completing testing of an early unit now, and then will be recommending this for all of our customer’s chief officer cars (battalion chief and higher; SWAT team leader and assistant leader; EMS supervisors; etc.) as it is the ideal method of enabling instant interoperability during the first hour of a large incident – before the dedicated communications vehicle arrives.
We will still be recommending the Infinimux G4 and Link Communication’s TCB-3 and TCB-4 for communications vans, mountain top interoperability switches, and similar applications where a large number of radios and phones need to be managed. But the G5 is the ideal tool for the “front seat” and cab. Pricing starts at approximately $4,000, a fraction of the price of the larger capacity interoperability switches.
-National Interop Staff
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