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Lower Salford demonstrates GPS-enabled AEDs to deploy across parks and police cars
Summary
The township demonstrated new AAID AED units with GPS/cellular capability, QR-code EKG transfer and remote monitoring; 16 units are entering service for parks, police vehicles and public facilities with plans for temperature-controlled boxes and monitoring portal access for administrators.
Officer Michael Pares of the Lower South Township Police Department presented the township’s new AAID automated external defibrillators and a live demonstration to the Board. "So far we have 16 of these," he said, adding the units will be placed across parks, in police vehicles and at several township facilities. The devices have GPS and cellular capability so that activation triggers a call to county dispatch and sends location data.
Paired with the units is a portal that lets administrators monitor battery and pad status, see unit locations on a map and receive deployment notifications. Pares explained the device workflow during a demonstration, narrating device prompts: "Analyzing heart rhythm... Shock is advised... Delivering shock in 3 2 1. Shock delivered," and then CPR guidance.
Pares said the units can be set to child or adult modes, provide prompts in English and Spanish, and present a QR code that responding EMS can scan to get the most recent ECG. The township plans temperature-controlled cabinets for park installations and may mount cameras to deter tampering; administrators will receive alerts when devices are deployed. Board members asked about unit placement and were offered a post-meeting inspection of a device on the dais.
