Zetron, a global leader in integrated mission critical solutions, today announced SALUS, the first end-to-end critical communications technology and services platform that provides complete customer choice, interoperability, standards-based architecture, and flexible deployment options. SALUS brings radio, telephony, MCX and data from across the entire communications continuum together onto a single platform, enabling customers in emergency response and critical services to easily scale capacity, capability and interoperability according to their current and future requirements.

Today, many emergency response and mission critical organizations rely on outdated, legacy systems that lead to communication gaps, inefficiency and costly time delays when seconds count. SALUS is a new technology model that unifies the critical communications continuum into a single, continuous, reliable and secure user experience, simplifying upkeep, reducing costs, expediting innovation delivery and adapting as needs change—a lasting foundation that puts customers in the driver’s seat.

“Just as the Roman goddess Salus represented health, safety and prosperity, Zetron’s SALUS platform is designed to ensure the well-being, safety, and success of every critical communications organization, team and professional we serve,” said Scott French, Executive General Manager and President at Zetron. “It’s a single platform with infinite power and possibility that will transform how critical communications are financed, deployed and maintained.”

Key benefits of SALUS include:

• Delivers transformational customer outcomes – greater responsiveness, resilience and customer-led technology decisions

• Extends advanced cloud capabilities to on-premise and hybrid environments, removing legacy limitations on scale and capacity to optimize resources

• Permits operations to flex in critical moments with secure data sharing and a streamlined, central management hub to simplify oversight

• Built-in safeguards and automatic failovers so SALUS solutions stay up through demand spikes and emergencies to ensure operations continue uninterrupted

• Empowers customers to define their own path with a foundation that adapts as needs evolve by breaking free from vendor lock-in and rigid, one-size-fits-all bundles

• Future-proofs current Zetron solutions by providing a seamless, easier and less expensive migration for customers whenever they move to the SALUS platform

“While the migration to cloud computing in critical communications markets has been conservative to date, a platform that gives organizations the flexibility to decide how and when they finance, deploy and maintain their control room technology is a game changer,” said Robert Stolz, President of Stolz Telecom in Oklahoma (USA), with more than 25 years of experience in critical communications. “SALUS provides a fresh approach to modernizing communications in ways that emergency response and critical services agencies desperately need.”

Tom White, President of A&W Communications in Missouri (USA), and another longtime critical communications veteran, added, “The value of a single platform solution that streamlines emergency communications and easily adapts to the changing needs of agencies, all while not locking them into how a single vendor wants them to do it, will be massive in the critical communications market. SALUS will give our customers a whole new level of choice and control.”

Core Zetron command and control solutions are being developed to be fully SALUS-powered, for seamless integration and collaboration on the SALUS platform. Some market-leading functionality of the SALUS platform is now available, including the newest release of Zetron’s ACOM Command and Control, being utilized by the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia to deliver the first fully MCX-capable railway communications network in Australia, with highly reliable mission critical voice, data and video services.

All core Zetron command and control solutions are SALUS-ready, to future-proof and streamline customer migrations as the SALUS platform is iteratively released across the solutions portfolio beginning this year.