Orange, CA., June 30, 2005 – BIO-key International, Inc., the leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety solutions has been awarded a contract at Green Bay, Wisconsin Fire Department to interface its FireRMS™ records management system with PDSI’s TeleStaff ™ automated staff scheduling and notification software solutions.
Green Bay will join a growing number of fire departments that enjoy the benefit of having BIO-key’s FireRMS solutions seamlessly integrated with TeleStaff, a premier scheduling and notification solution. Today, Battalion Chiefs must manually create their daily rosters which is a time-consuming, tedious task that is further complicated by their need to minimize overtime, manage constant staffing requirements, ensure properly credentialed personnel are staffed, communicate with staff efficiently, and follow labor and department guidelines.
The implementation of this interface will save Green Bay’s command staff a tremendous amount of time building their rosters each day, but will also benefit from streamlining their incident report process. TeleStaff will help minimize overtime costs, improve productivity and ensure that the right skills are available on every shift.
“Managing days off, overtime, sick days and finding firefighters with the right credentials is a time-consuming task,” says Fire Chief Jeff Stauber. “With the new telephone and rules-based system interfaced to BIO-key’s FireRMS, we will minimize that problem.” Chief Stauber goes on to say that since the rollout in 2002, the BIO-key FireRMS system has provided unprecedented access to records for managing all aspects of the department.
“PDSI’s ‘best of breed’ partner solution is important to our success and serves to improve the operational efficiencies of our customers, which enables them to better serve their communities!” exclaims Mike Layman, BIO-key Director of Marketing. “PDSI’s market-leading software is a natural extension to our enterprise-class fire records management system.”
About PDSI
PDSI is a leading provider of sophisticated workforce automation solutions for public safety agencies, large municipalities, healthcare services, hospitality organizations and commercial entities throughout North America. PDSI products seamlessly integrate leading edge technologies necessary to automate daily processes such as scheduling and staff management for shifts, events or appointments resulting in value-added solutions and offering increased productivity among human resources. TeleStaff(TM) provides public safety agencies a scheduling and notification solution capable of managing complex rules, work codes and shifts. Collection Management System(TM) (CMS) is a group of applications specifically designed for blood collection organizations. STAFFeasy(TM) is a web-based event staffing and notification solution designed to fill positions based on rules and notify personnel of work assignments.
About BIO-key
BIO-key develops and delivers advanced identification solutions and information services to law enforcement departments, public safety agencies, government and private sector customers. BIO-key's mobile wireless technology provides first responders with critical, reliable, real-time data and images from local, state and national databases. BIO-key's high-performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise data to improve security, convenience and privacy and to reduce identity theft. Over 2,500 police, fire and emergency services departments in North America use BIO-key solutions, making BIO-key the leading supplier of mobile and wireless solutions for public safety worldwide. (http://www.bio-key.com)
