Fort Lauderdale, Florida

FloorView™ LLC announced that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office has chosen the FloorView™ software solution as a key part of its strategy to protect the safety of students and teachers at local schools. Using FloorView™, Polk County law enforcement will be able to get immediate access at the scene to accurate floor plans, photos, and tactical information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in every patrol car. This around the clock availability will enable law enforcement to quickly assess emergency situations and develop plans accordingly.

The development of FloorView was in response to tragic shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, which claimed a total of 15 lives. Emergency and law enforcement officials responding to the shooting were not able to get floor plans and aerial photos for 90 minutes, and those they received were inaccurate, as they did not reflect the recent construction changes that had been made to the school building. This delay may have cost more lives, as law enforcement struggled to develop a plan to deal with the maze of rooms and hallways and the rescue of stranded and wounded students.

“Emergency personnel can’t afford to wait over one hour to get the floor plans like they did at Columbine High School,” said Richard Neiman, President and CEO of FloorView. “They need accurate information immediately, wherever the emergency is, so they can develop effective tactical plans in a wide variety of scenarios. FloorView gives them this fast access in the field enabling them to act in minutes, rather than in hours. This has very significant implications for helping them save lives.”

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As a result of this and other such tragedies, a number of state legislatures, including Florida, Michigan, and New York, have passed laws mandating that law enforcement and other emergency personnel have fast access to each school’s up-to-date floor plans in their respective jurisdictions. FloorView was developed to enable law enforcement agencies such as Miami-Dade County, as well as fire and emergency management agency personnel, the ability to get instant access to up-to-date floor plans, site plans, site photos, hazardous material storage permits onsite, via remote broadband access. Using FloorView™, emergency response teams can quickly access critical information for schools, day care centers, hospitals, hotels, and other public buildings, so they can effectively deal with emergency situations, including natural disasters such as tornado, fire or earthquake, or criminal activity such as a hostage situation.

FloorView works with an internet browser and integrates Autodesk® Architectural Desktop, Autodesk® WHIP!, Autodesk MapGuide®, CQR Vu (patent pending), Allaire ColdFusion®, and ER Mapper Image Web Server (patent pending) into a single solution. Once logged into the secure site, users are able to view the information they are authorized to obtain. Users will be able to see floor plans, aerial photographs, exterior and interior photographs, and detailed tactical information.

About FloorView™ LLC

FloorView, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company based in Fort Lauderdale Florida, is a geo-building visual information systems solution provider, offering police, fire departments and other public safety departments the ability to access in real-time floor plans of schools, hospitals, libraries, federal buildings and other public facilities, over the internet via broadband wired and wireless technologies. FloorView's mission is to become the leading provider of geo-building visual information systems for all public and private safety organizations within all sectors of the economy.