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use of warning equipment to the average police officer. And, as a motorist sharing the roads with emergency vehicles, I have expe- rienced how poorly configured or selected warning equipment can be either overpow- ering or insufficient in its performance. So the question is how can we achieve balance between what an emergency vehicle warning system can do and when it should do it? Te answer may very well lie with the new CanTrol WC™ Light and Siren system from Whelen®. CanTrol WC provides a level of vehicle and warning equipment in- tegration never before available. In general terms, CanTrol WC makes logic-based decisions using vehicle and en- vironmental inputs and then automatically configures the warning system according to pre-programmed parameters. CanTrol WC reduces and limits the officer's need to inter- act with the warning system. Tis means less decision-making, better focus on their sur- roundings, and more appropriate lighting for the task at hand, all of which increases officer safety. Te current CanTrol WC system traces its roots to a project Whelen completed for the California Highway Patrol and builds on Whelen's original B-Link™ and current state-of-the-art serial control and WeCan® systems. CanTrol WC replaces the warning system's siren and light controller and con- sists of an Amplifier / Control Module and a remote Control Head. It controls all other warning components, including siren speakers, lightbars, arrow sticks, perimeter lighting, scene lighting, low frequency sirens, and so forth. Can- Trol WC can also control vehicle lamps, interior lighting, gun locks, video & radar systems, K-9 system components, alarms… just about anything you can install, can be "CanTrol'ed." CanTrol WC becomes especially useful when you consider the number of mobile tactical problems officers can be faced with at any time, including traffic stops, felony stops, pursuits, emergency response, traffic control, scene illumination, crash investiga- tion, disabled motorist assists, interdiction, high-visibility traffic enforcement, roadside presence, escorts, crime deterrence, and oth- ers. www.pfmmag.com 51 S Whelen CanTrol WC amplifier-controller module. Ideally, each of these mobile tactical problems requires officers to select differ- ent lighting and siren features and these choices are in turn limited by the capabili- ties of the warning systems. Until CanTrol WC, no existing warning system controllers provided the switching, external input & output flexibility, load management, and programmability necessary to allow the sys- tem to be specifically tailored to each of the above tasks. Whelen's advanced programming soft- ware allows the CanTrol WC system to be custom-configured to each end-user's needs. Using Windows® based "drag-and- drop" software, the administrator creates rules and prioritizes these rules using if / then logic. Tis creates tremendous flex- ibility and absolute consistency in how the emergency vehicle warning system operates. Not only is the system re-configurable as needs, vehicles and equipment change, T CanTrol WC control head eliminates clutter and offers tremendous warning flexibility.