Regionalization is an integration methodology used to consolidate legacy security and emergency services into a single monitoring and dispatch center. Regionalization includes radio and telephone communications, fire alarm monitoring and dispatch, security alarm monitoring and dispatch, access control monitoring, video surveillance/detection/assessment monitoring, and disaster response planning and execution.
A regionalization project seeks to establish a common interoperable platform for the integration and consolidation of emergency and security services, reduce the manpower utilization and monthly recurring costs of supporting multiple dispatch centers, and minimize any delays, inefficiencies, and problems in 24x7 emergency dispatches associated with maintaining multiple local monitoring centers.Previous Work
In October of 1998, Quanta Systems successfully implemented the first Regionalization project for Commander Navy Region Southwest (San Diego, CA), which included the consolidation of eight local monitoring centers and 32 different vendors of intrusion detection systems.
The Phase 1 implementation of the Regional Operations Command and Control Center (ROC3) for Commander Naval Region Hawaii (CNRH) was formally accepted in March 2002. Five local monitoring centers were consolidated, including shipyard, federal fire, two Naval magazine operations, and regional security, totaling more than 19,000 fire warning detection devices. Phase 2 implementation was accepted and turned over in September 2003. CNRH is the first site in DoD history to consolidate security and emergency services among military branches (Army, Marine Corps, Navy).
The Phase 1 implementation of the local monitoring centers for COMNAVMAR (Marianas, Guam) was completed in January 2004, in which four local monitoring centers were consolidated into one.
2003 saw the beginning of a Regionalization project at Command Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY). In May 2007 Commander Naval Forces Japan (CNFJ) opened it's regional monitoring and dispatch center for it's emergency, security, and medical activities. This project consolidated more than 13 different systems, many of them from Japanese manufacturers, and spread over more than 40 miles of territory.