canuckfred
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Hi,
I'm new here and am interested in EMS from the point of view of response times - in particular LED address numbers and their impact on response times. Ya see, I'm test marketing some LED address numbers – they're the brightest in the world – and before I invest a lot of money in them, I need to know that I'm on the right path.
I did a search here for "illuminated address numbers" and brought up some great past discussions on address numbers/maps/GPS.
The consensus seemed to be:
"bottom line: until they need help and the fire/police/ems unit can't find their location, they won't change, because they will feel it isn't needed. (illuminated address numbers)
. . . sucks, but that's the way people are."
When I started researching LED address numbers I thought the market was HUGE, as most house addresses are invisible at night. But I'm thinking maybe I was wrong, that the market's actually quite small due to the above–people just living in denial.
So many people I speak with think GPS has made the need for visible address numbers obsolete. Having done courier work for a few months I know this is not true, and the past posts here seem to agree. But it's a nutty thing, the majority of people just seem to want to keep their head in the sand on this.
I feel illuminated address numbers are almost as important as smoke detectors, but I guess I'm biased.
Anyway, sorry for such a long first post. Any comments/feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Fred
I'm new here and am interested in EMS from the point of view of response times - in particular LED address numbers and their impact on response times. Ya see, I'm test marketing some LED address numbers – they're the brightest in the world – and before I invest a lot of money in them, I need to know that I'm on the right path.
I did a search here for "illuminated address numbers" and brought up some great past discussions on address numbers/maps/GPS.
The consensus seemed to be:
"bottom line: until they need help and the fire/police/ems unit can't find their location, they won't change, because they will feel it isn't needed. (illuminated address numbers)
. . . sucks, but that's the way people are."
When I started researching LED address numbers I thought the market was HUGE, as most house addresses are invisible at night. But I'm thinking maybe I was wrong, that the market's actually quite small due to the above–people just living in denial.
So many people I speak with think GPS has made the need for visible address numbers obsolete. Having done courier work for a few months I know this is not true, and the past posts here seem to agree. But it's a nutty thing, the majority of people just seem to want to keep their head in the sand on this.
I feel illuminated address numbers are almost as important as smoke detectors, but I guess I'm biased.
Anyway, sorry for such a long first post. Any comments/feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Fred