Situational Awareness
Safety
Team Coordination
Real-Time Location Information at Your Fingertips
The Colorado Team Awareness Kit (COTAK) is a real-time location service available to all Colorado public safety agencies. By using COTAK, emergency responders can significantly enhance their situational awareness, safety, and team coordination.
Using dots on a map, COTAK users can locate themselves, their team members, and other enrolled agency personnel in real-time. In addition, COTAK provides advanced features that can be customized to meet the specific needs of fire, law enforcement, search and rescue, and other public safety agencies.
COTAK is available free of charge to all Colorado public safety agencies. Join us in deploying the future of public safety, and sign up for COTAK now.
LEARN MORECOTAK News
COTAK Featured on Podcast
CoE Deputy Director of Science and Research Dr. Bob Gann was recently featured on the “Smart Firefighting” podcast with a discussion on COTAK. Bob has been instrumental in building the cotak.gov website and user management system, and in this podcast he shares his insight on why COTAK was built and what our value proposition is to first responders in Colorado. If you have 20 minutes to spare the podcast episode is well worth a listen!
COTAK User Forum Live
A user forum has been added to the COTAK website. Any user with a valid COTAK login can access the forum at forum.cotak.gov and logging in with the same username and password used by your main COTAK account. The forum allows first responders using COTAK to ask questions and receive support from other first responders using COTAK and the COTAK project team. The forum also serves as a central location for first responders to learn about how others are using COTAK and exchange ideas.
Mutual Aid with COTAK
The COTAK system is now capable of supporting mutual aid, meaning that multiple agencies can use COTAK to access a common channel in the app and view the locations of first responders from all agencies involved in an operation. COTAK currently has statewide mutual aid channels for law enforcement, wildland fire, and snowstorm operations. Mutual aid channels for smaller counties or regions of the state can be created as well.
The way mutual aid works in COTAK is through the creation of "parent" entities, which can have multiple agencies as their "children." One or more channels can be created in the parent, and all children agencies automatically are given access to these channels.
For example a county can be a parent entity, and within that county the three fire departments, two police departments, and the sheriff's office can all be designated as children of the county. Then COTAK creates a county "owned" channel in TAK called "County MAC" and this channel automatically becomes available to any first responder in the six agencies within that county. This channel can be turned on or off by each first responder depending on their needs.
Contact the COTAK project team at support@cotak.gov if you would like to learn more or have mutual aid deployed in your area of Colorado.
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