Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 04-15-2025
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Approval of and authorization to execute a five-year service agreement with the Whelen Engineering Company to provide access to Whelen's proprietary cloud data system
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Background:
The Broken Arrow Police Department has a total of sixty-four (64) vehicles which are technologically advanced enough to be compatible with the Whelen Cloud. We use Whelen brand overhead light bars on these cars and the light bars can communicate with the Whelen Cloud to provide a wide variety of real time and other data. For example, during pursuit operations the speeds of vehicles so equipped can be isolated at any point on a map, it gives us the capability of over the air equipment programming, maintenance status and up to the minute location. This product also features the Haas system which will alert drivers through all global positioning satellite (GPS) system including smart phones and newer vehicle infotainment systems alerting them to the presence of stationary police cars when their emergency lighting is active. The system additionally provides data on vehicle mileage which would be beneficial to Fleet Maintenance for oil changes and other routine service needs. Should the City wish to begin to use or experiment with GPS based traffic signal preemption, moving toward this service would more readily enable such an effort.
This is a valuable tool which we have been evaluating on a free trial basis. During a recent pursuit, we were able to prove our police officer came to a near stop at red traffic signals. The Whelen Cloud can re-trace the route of a pursuit indicating true speed at any point.
The cost is three-hundred sixty dollars ($360.00) a month per each vehicle amounting to twenty-three thousand forty dollars ($23,040.00) annual or one-hundred fifteen thousand and two hundred ($115,200.00) over the five-year span of the agreement. Funds are available within the police department's operational budget to fu...
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