A New Generation of Radio Fleet Management
Quickly and easily maintain your fleet of radios and update your radio software with Armada, the industry’s first fleet management and programming software with the most intuitive user interface.
Armada introduces the concept of templates to fleet management. Each user group is able to develop a single profile for its specific agency and designate it as a template. The template is linked to the selected agency’s radio profiles and then as necessary, Armada will download this information into the Viking radio. Programming changes to agency radios only requires an update of the template instead of updating each radio profile. You can also copy and paste an existing template to create new radio profiles for additional agencies. Armada supports either a direct computer connection or Over-the-Air Programming (OTAP) for radio programming. Because the direct connection is a USB connection, multiple radios can be connected via a USB hub for simultaneous programming, which saves substantial time and effort.
Traditional Radio ProgrammingRadio configurators allow end-users to program their own radios with their system frequencies and various radio personality options. For trunked radios, the programming can be extensive.
The trunked radio program or personality is commonly referred to as the radio codeplug. Each trunked radio requires its own unique codeplug. Over time traditional radio configurators have developed “cut and paste” and “cloning” tools to help the end-user to create multiple codeplugs.
Today’s trunked systems can support thousands to tens of thousands of radios. For these large fleets, using a traditional configurator is simply not adequate to the task: building unique codeplugs and updating radios one-by-one demands significant manpower hours and is very prone to human programming errors.
Introducing Armada® Fleet Management
A Modern Solution
Modern radio fleet management solutions demand an approach which can accommodate programming and maintaining multiple fleets of radios.
Armada® is an intuitive, easy to use trunked radio fleet management tool which has been specifically designed to program and maintain the radio codeplugs in a safe, efficient manner.
Unlike traditional configurators Armada is template-based: the fleet manager creates a master template for a fleet of radios and then links the template to multiple radios in the fleet. Once linked, Armada will update the radio profile as indicated by the fleet manager. Templates can be edited and the corresponding radio profiles are updated simultaneously, providing consistency and error-free programming across the radio fleet.
The Armada Advantage
Armada’s template structure allows for multiple layers of templates to be created from a single Master template. This allows systems with numerous agencies to have their own template while maintaining the integrity of the system-specific data.
Once the master template is created, the fleet manager or agency manager can duplicate that template as needed, e.g., for collaborating with and/or adding agencies (police, fire, EMS) to the network; this eliminates the need to create a new, unique template for each department.
Advanced Programming Capabilities
Elite Battery Management
Track the health of batteries installed in your Viking portable radios. Radios can be configured to report battery health directly to the operator as well as to the battery server.
Over-the-Intranet Programming (OTIP)
Program Viking mobile radios remotely using IP-based network services. Works with both wired (Ethernet) and wireless (Wi-Fi) networks.
Kiosk Mode
When necessary, Armada can be configured to update several radios via an off-the- shelf USB hub. They can remotely access computers per agency, update all radio profiles, and set the computer for Kiosk Mode. As end-users (e.g., police officers) come on shift, Kiosk Mode will alert them to any radio updates.
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