Zello Work is used by rescue service "Nadezhda" for fight against spread of a coronavirus

2020: Free providing Zello Work

Zello company, the international producer of the voice solution on radio set type, free of charge provided to search and rescue group "Nadezhda" unlimited access to service "Zello Work for services of rapid response" and the radio gateway Zello Gateway. The voice Zello Work messenger will help rescuers to interact among themselves in difficult field conditions and also with law-enforcement and medical institutions. The Zello company reported about it on May 22, 2020.

Zello is mobile application, the voice messenger working by the principle of the radio set. For May, 2020 the number of users of Zello in the world exceeded 140 million people. The professional service Zello Work is used by many organizations worldwide.

The rescue service "Nadezhda" became one of the services in Russia connected to the "Zello for services of rapid response" program. The volunteer group into which for May, 2020 12 certified rescuers enter specializes in search of the gone children. First of all, in difficult field conditions, buildings and city communications.

OMD PSO "Hope" participates in fight against spread of a koronavirusny infection, applying modern technologies and navigation equipment. In the conditions of a pandemic the staff of services of rapid response should communicate with different people, representatives of other departments, to often resolve issues in group communication. At the same time at considerable distance from each other traditional radio stations do not help. For May 22, 2020 Zello Work is used when holding trainings and in learning process of external pilots of the UAV.

The Zello Work service is controlled is centralized, i.e. the head of the organization completely controls the channel of employees, setup of a system. In the application there is an abnormal channel with automatic sending coordinates to the dispatching application, GPS monitoring with the history of movement of employees, a possibility of active communication up to 10000 people in one channel and also a connectivity of traditional radio networks.

OMD PSO "Hope" uses the Zello system for the organization of an operative communication and the notification of groups of rescuers the second month. During this time this system proved to be from a positive side in areas where there is at least a loose and unstable mobile Internet communication. Zello Work fully meets our requirements, and function of the centralized monitoring of location of employees gives additional abilities to manage search and rescue works, tells Vladimir Koshkarev, the head of rescue group.

The interface unit of Zello Gateway is a part of free of charge provided equipment. The module provides connection of radio stations of any frequencies and producers to the computer of the manager and allows to act as the data exchange gateway between the users of push-to-talk of the Zello Work system and subscribers using a normal radio communication. Such solution integrates in a single voice network of subscribers on smartphones, tablets, computers and radio stations and also geographically distributed radio network segments.

For the help in fight against COVID-19 and other emergencies the Zello company made the decision to provide the full-function version of professional service to services of rapid response free of charge to any number of users. For May 22, 2020 already more than 600 services of quick response joined this program worldwide and use Zello Work for improvement of communication in a crisis situation, commented Veronika Zaslavskaya, the director of Zello Russia.