Two companies plan to develop a demonstration command center that will allow municipalities to know the exact location of emergency vehicles and hazardous materials.

Concentrax Inc., a provider of vehicle monitoring services and technologies, announced the formation of a joint operation with Texoga HSE to develop the center, which will let officials respond more quickly to a terrorist attack or other crises.
The center, which will be in Houston, combines a highly detailed, continually updated street mapping database with real-time satellite tracking capabilities. Cities will be able to instantly locate first-response assets -- emergency, police, rescue, and firefighting vehicles -- and deploy them quickly to an incident site.
Additionally, the database will include a full range of relevant information about all hazardous materials in the area. This will help assure that federal, state, and local first responder teams can react quickly and safely in the event that these materials and their locations are part of an emergency incident.
Houston was chosen for the demonstration command center because it has the largest concentration of petrochemical plants and refineries in the world, as well as one of the nation's largest ports and two major airports.
For more information, visit www.concentrax.com.