Meeting the Need for Emergency First Responders

Denco Area 9-1-1 District has initiated a regionwide project to create indoor maps for buildings in our district. These maps aim to improve emergency response times and increase situational awareness for First Responders. These indoor maps depict floors, rooms, corridors, entrances, exits, and other emergency features. Schools, government buildings, apartment complexes, and commercial buildings are currently being mapped for your local public safety agency.

Indoor Maps for Public Safety

Decrease Response Time

Save Lives

Protect Property

See what your digitized floorplan will look like in the emergency communications center when a 9-1-1 call is received from the facility. This enhanced location information provides the emergency communications center a much more precise, in-building location of a 9-1-1 caller who is unable to speak or unable to describe their exact location.

 
 

Award Info

Denco Area 9-1-1 District received the 2021 Special Districts Technology Innovation Award presented by AT&T and Government Technology magazine for our 9-1-1 Indoor Mapping Project. The award recognizes special districts that have utilized technology to improve service delivery to citizens. The Denco Area 9-1-1 District is recognized for its project to address the challenges of locating 9-1-1 callers indoors by utilizing floorplan maps and Denco 9-1-1’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data to extend Emergency Communications Center (ECC) mapping capabilities.

Indoor maps can have a tremendous impact on public safety response by providing better situational awareness for responders, visual representation for key buildings, and improving emergency response times. We are proud of our GIS team’s work to identify strategic priorities and their efforts in collaboration with our local partner agencies to improve the data available to emergency communications centers in the District.

Denco staff holding indoor mapping award

For additional information or questions, please contact gis@denco.org.

The Indoor Map project is available to facilities in Denton County and the following cities:

  • Argyle

  • Aubrey

  • Bartonville

  • Copper Canyon

  • Corinth

  • Corral City

  • Cross Roads

  • Denton

  • Dish

  • Double Oak

  • Flower Mound

  • Hackberry

  • Hebron

  • Hickory Creek

  • Highland Village

  • Justin

  • Krugerville

  • Krum

  • Lake Dallas

  • Lakewood Village

  • Lewisville

  • Little Elm

  • Northlake

  • Oak Point

  • Pilot Point

  • Ponder

  • Providence Village

  • Roanoke

  • Sanger

  • Shady Shores

  • The Colony

  • Trophy Club

  • Unincorporated Denton County