Thursday, February 23, 2006

Orbis Integrated Solutions Teams With ARCBridge to Deliver Wireless GIS Mapping & Analysis


Orbis Integrated Solutions Inc. (orbis-is.com) a business consulting and technology integration firm which focuses on Investigative Solutions and Data Management Solutions, announced today the partnership with ARCBridge Consulting & Training Inc. (arcbridge.com) a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions firm, to deliver wireless GIS mapping solution leveraging handheld PDA technology.

Patrick Lee, President of Orbis Integrated Solutions, Inc., stated, "We are excited to partner with ARCbridge to deliver GIS solutions via wireless devices. We are experiencing the need for GIS information to be an integral part of the investigative solutions we deliver. Orbis also sees the expansion of a range of applications being made available on PDAs, the GIS information will serve as an important piece of information to the end-user, delivering more decision making power to the mobile workforce.”

Sara Mitchell, Sales & Marketing Director of ARCBridge Consulting & Training, Inc., stated, “In a time where there is such a growing demand for both wireless and GIS solutions, we have made an excellent choice to partner with Orbis. Many of our law enforcement and fire department users have already expressed a strong need to perform GIS mapping and analysis on PDAs. By combining their wireless technology expertise and our innovative GIS solutions, we will be able to satisfy that demand and provide the end-user with a solution to meet their needs.

Orbis has been successful delivering leading-edge Investigative Solutions for homeland security, anti-terrorism and crime fighting solutions to government, law enforcement agencies and related commercial organizations.

Orbis developed solutions including –


Algorithmic “probabilistic” search technology that links duplicate, similar and fragmented records within and across multiple data sources.


Statewide intranet based application for use by the State Police to search for motor vehicle registration and drivers’ records.


High compression searchable CD-ROM database with 1,000,000 Department of Motor Vehicle records.


Data management solution to overcome rapid and tremendous data growth by providing the archive/storage, indexing, compression, viewing / presentation and migration solutions to address these data growth issues.

ARCBridge develops the latest technology in GIS Mapping, Planning & Analysis solutions for law enforcement agencies and fire department. They also provide many other GIS solutions including data mapping, routing solutions, address parsing & more.

ARCBridge developed solutions including –

CRIMES which provides GIS Crime Mapping & Analysis tools to be used on many levels by crime analysts, officers & community members. These solutions are available as a stand alone, ESRI’s ArcGIS or web-based solutions and provide tools like hot spots, crime series, standard deviation ellipses, thematic mapping and more.


FIRES which allows its users to analyze CAD data & evaluate performance responses. This calculates unit response by unit or volume response by area, calculates full compliment of the response or first due analysis, calculates performance response (actual vs. estimated), and more.


FIRES used by Fire Departments to analyze fire station service areas, apparatus response zones, call boxes & run orders. The user can create “what if” scenarios to move apparatus to other stations, or add/delete stations for planning future stations.


NETS is a street network analysis & routing application used to calculate best routes, best return routes, closest facilities or service response areas.




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