Nearly three-quarters of professional organisations are either using or planning to use mobile apps in the near future. These users are taking the app message onboard and making use of the many advantages that apps have to offer in critical communications.
The following were initial findings from the 2016 survey of professional app users.
Android, Windows, iOS - messaging, location, multimedia
Downloading their apps from Android, or using Windows or the Apple iOS, professional users are finding the most use for messaging apps, location apps and apps that help users share multimedia.
Easy to use and under control
Everyone wants apps to be easy to use. Professional users also want to be sure that any data generated by the apps remain under their control. This is not surprising with over a fifth of respondents to Airbus’ current app survey are members of police forces.
Public safety and industrial users
And it’s not just public safety bodies taking a good look at what apps can do for them. Industrial users are also increasingly using apps as part of computer aided dispatching systems.
Going concerns
Most of these apps are used on consumer smartphones, which offer extreme portability, openness and processing power. But how secure are these smartphone apps? Do they really provide the level of data integrity that professional and particularly public safety organisations demand?
Airbus can help answer these questions, with professional apps that provide just what users need. One example is Tactilon Agnet, an app that brings TETRA push-to-talk to smartphones.
Another example is a multimedia app for standard smartphones and tablets, allowing talk group members to share pictures and video securely and reliably - it can be also used by dispatchers in the control room, who can have confidence that the shared material will not become accessible to the public.
And that can only make for a very ‘appy’ future for everyone.
Updated contents for you:
This blog post refers the results from the 2016 survey. The latest survey report was published in April 2022. Download the report "Professional app trends 2022 - 37 things you wish you'd known earlier"
-----This blog post was updated in April 2022 to include the latest available information.
