SYNCH: Beyond Push-to-Talk
SYNCH is an application designed to manage the collaborations between all medical personnel in the disaster zone together with United Hatzalah’s command center in Jerusalem. In addition to every day life saving tasks, the application has already gone through several “baptisms of fire” during multi-causality incidents.
SYNCH centralizes the work with all individuals deployed in the field and where the team supervisors can manage all the United Hatzalah emergency and rescue teams on a map, and can use various tools to guide and assist them in their mission. The teams at the disaster zone can transmit voice messages, photos and live video from the field as well as send updates to the command and control centers.
The application works on any cellular network and allows the teams to be quickly deployed in any environment that has network coverage, while maintaining contact with parties both in the field and in Israel.
SYNCH is installed on cellphones as an application, turning them into a combination of a walkie-talkie, WhatsApp and navigation and mapping device– making it an all in one application. In conjunction with the Pelephone cellular network company, the system is helping United Hatzalah on a daily basis to save lives.
