NFPA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTRONIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT. March 10-12, 2015 Fort Lauderdale, FL AGENDA

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1 Tuesday, March 10, 2015 NFPA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTRONIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT March 10-12, 2015 Fort Lauderdale, FL AGENDA 1. 9:00 a.m. Call to Order - Chairman Bob Athanas 2. Introduction of Members and Guests 3. NFPA Staff Liaison Report - Dave Trebisacci 4. Approval of Minutes - November 18-20, 2014 TC meeting, Tucson, AZ (attached) 5. Chairman s Remarks 6. NFPA 1982 PASS Task Group Breakout (3/10 all day) 7. PASS Audibility Project and Smart Fire Fighting Casey Grant, FPRF 8. Task Group Reports Interoperability Mike McKenna Voice Intelligibility & Certification Gerry Tarver Ambassadors J. Facella, S. Makky, G. Sletmoe, M. Worrell, J. Oblak 9. Review of NFPA 1802 Draft (v. 2/1/2015 attached) Chapter 1 Jose Velo Chapter 2 Jose Velo Chapter 3 Tim Wolfe, Beverly Gulledge Chapter 4 Gordon Sletmoe Chapter 5 Gerry Tarver Chapter 6 Mike McKenna, Mike Worrell Chapter 7 Mike McKenna, Mike Worrell, Steve Townsend Chapter 8 Mike Feely,, Chris Spoons 10. New Business Next meeting July 21-23, 2015 TBD 11. Adjourn at close of business on Thursday, March 12, 2015.

2 Technical Committee on Electronic Safety Equipment Minutes of the Meeting November 18-20, 2014 Tucson, AZ Agenda Items #1-3: Call to Order, Introduction of Members and Guests, and Committee Procedures Chairman Athanas called the Committee to order at 9 a.m. on November 18, Chairman Athanas welcomed Committee members and guests and asked them to introduce themselves. David Trebisacci provided the NFPA staff liaison report and asked attendees to sign in on the appropriate Member or Guest sign-in sheet. Members present: Robert Athanas, Chairman Chris Spoons, Secretary Dave Trebisacci, Staff Liaison Kamil Agi Matt Bowyer Matthew Busa Matthew Cnudde William Forsyth Jeff Helvin Simon Hogg Jeffrey Hull Michael Hussey John Jarboe Paul Kelly Steven Makky Brian Martens Michael McKenna Jorge Piovesan Timothy Rehak Kevin Roche Jim Rose by phone Matthew Shannon Gordon Sletmoe Gerry Tarver Steven Townsend Bruce Varner Jose Velo Steven Weinstein Timothy Wolf Mike Worrell Guests present: Todd Bianchi Brian Cox Lea Dabiri Michelle Donnelly Matt Elmore John Facella Sandy Florence John Hardwick Luke Hollmann Joel Margo Clint Mayhue Tom Mockridge DC Fire & EMS Clovis Fire FLIR Systems NIST Bullard Panther Pines Consulting Motorola Solutions DVSI Ultra Electronics E2V-Argus Avon Protection Systems Motorola Solutions

3 Rebecca Norwood John Oblak Gunnar Palm John Rehayem Dylan Rodriguez Chris Sampl Bob Sell Bernd Spellenberg Alan Sharpley Paul Spooner Darin Thompson Jon Turner William Young Chris Yttri Harris Corp EF Johnson Technologies FLIR Systems OTTO Engineering FLIR Fairfax County FD Draeger Draeger Dynastat ISG Scott Safety E2V-Argus NIST OTTO Engineering Agenda Item #4: Approval of the Minutes of the July 2014 meeting in St. Louis, MO. The committee reviewed the minutes of the meeting held July in St. Louis, Mo. Two changes were proposed to reflect that Steve Weinstein was present at the July meeting, and to remove information on assigning a task group on Design Requirements. Motion to accept the minutes as amended: Second: Mike McKenna To approve the amended Minutes of the July meeting Motion carried Agenda Items #5: Chairman s Remarks Chairman Athanas welcomed all members and guests to Tucson. He then provided background information on NFPA 1801 to explain how the document came about and where we are now. He also explained that we will be splitting time over these three days between NFPA 1802 and NFPA Agenda Item #6: NFPA 1801 The TC went through the document section by section to see which items may need to be addressed in the next revision. About 25 items were identified that may become comments. A task group was created to review publications referenced in the document to make sure we are using the newest version: Tim Wolf chair Paul Kelly

4 A task group was created to review the spatial resolution in Section 8.1 of 1801: Steve Townsend chair Bernd Spellenberg Jon Turner A task group was created to review the sound quality and determine whether there is a need for testing: Steve Townsend chair Michelle Donnelly Bill Forsyth Mike Hussey Jack Jarboe Steve Makky John Oblak Chris Sampl Steve Weinstein Mike Worrell Agenda Item #7: Task Group Reports Interoperability Mike McKenna and Brian Cox: Changed task group name to SCBA/Radio Interface. The following members of the Ambassador task group gave updates on their outreach efforts: Steve Makky nothing new to report with outreach to APCO, NPSTIC John Oblak TIA - continuing to work on number of identification of standard, hope to see drafts by end of February timeframe John Facella approached NPSTIC who published a summary on their web site in July; August slides were presented at the IAFC communications committee; attended NFPA 1221 TC meeting in October; in November presented to chiefs of police; presented again to NPSTIK in a November teleconference. Mike Worrell invited people who have not yet attended to participate in the process. Agenda Item #8: Review of NFPA 1802 Draft The committee began reviewing the draft to date of NFPA The TC got through Chapter 6 and will begin with Chapter 7 at the next meeting. Chapter 1 Jose Velo Chapter 2 Jose Velo Chapter 3 Tim Wolfe, Beverly Gulledge Chapter 4 Gordon Sletmoe Chapter 5 Gerry Tarver Chapter 6 Mike McKenna, Mike Worrell Chapter 7 Mike McKenna, Mike Worrell, Steve Townsend Chapter 8 Mike Feely, Chris Spoons, A task group was created to review dates of publications referenced in Chapter 2.

5 Agenda Item #9: Presentations (all attached) John Hartwick (DVSI) improvements for enhanced voice communications Alan Sharpley (Dynastat) speech intelligibility testing; speech & audio quality evaluation Simon Hogg (Draeger) test method on speech testing Brian Martens (Harris) Comms System Proposal Agenda Item #10: New Business The next meeting is scheduled for March 10-12, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. March 10 th will be dedicated to work on NFPA 1982 and March for work on NFPA Agenda Item #11: Adjourn at close of business Having no further business, Chairman Athanas sought a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion: Tim Rehak Second: Matt Busa To adjourn the meeting Motion passed Chairman Athanas adjourned the meeting at 5 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Chris Spoons, Secretary TC on ESE