A New BART Update is Coming

Coming Release of BART – February 2016

With the Australian summer now in full swing, we’ve experienced bush fires, flooding and everything in between.

In the coming weeks the BART system will offer a bunch of new features and improvements – here’s a sample of what you can expect:

Radio Streaming
“I’d love to see the CFA work in and include streaming of the digital radio network directly into the BART App, as quite often I will either listen on my way or listen if I can’t make it”
After receiving a request from a committed volunteer and BART member, we prompted our development team to develop this new feature for the smartphone, tablet and smartwatch applications.
Members can select their desired public safety radio feed, and then it’s set up ready to go each time the BART app’s opened – at the tap of a button.
This feature is available for any state in Australia that has radio streaming.

Message Sending
BART administrators have full control over who can (and can’t) send BART messages.

Message Attachments
Send and receive BART messages with file attachments. ie. pdf, docx, jpg, png, mp3, mp4
Email to Message
BART Messages can now be sent directly from email, which can include attachments.
If you have message sending privileges, you can use your BART-registered email account to send messages to your elected cap-code.
Example:
The captain at ‘The Brigade’ can send an email like the one shown in the example, which will then feed into the BART system. The cap-code in this example is ‘B-TBRGDE’ so the email is addressed to ‘[email protected]’

In addition to the file attachments, you can assign a map and location to the message by including either the address or lat/long coordinates.
For example:
LAT/LNG: -37.8571783, 145.2335184
or
ADDR: 420 Burwood Hwy, Wantirna South, VIC

Assign your status via Push Notification
You will be able to press ‘accept, decline or other’ through the Push Notification screen – without having to open up the app.
This will be done in preparation for assigning statuses using a smartwatch.

Correct your Location
You will be able to adjust the location of an incident (if required) straight from the BART smartphone application.

Improved Location Identification
If your brigade or unit falls within the 54/55 corridor of the state, we have introduced two sets of UTM Grid Zone coordinates to improve location identification. If you are in this 54/55 corridor, please contact us for more information: [email protected]

Attendance bar
We have included an Attendance indicator bar below the three Attend, Decline and Other buttons, for a quick view as to the status of responses to the incident.
Complete Incident
BART administrators will be able to determine who can (and can’t) close incidents.