Transportation
Stone Mountain success stories of increased operational efficiency.
Glenn Steffens, JD/MPA
“Saginaw Transit relies on communications for not only service, but public safety. This means that when we select hardware, we need to find something durable, effective, and dependable. In an emergency situation, having working comm’s could literally mean the difference between life and death. Stone Mountain products continue to meet our needs through their unique and high-quality equipment. We are extremely pleased with the hardware – and the company’s great customer support.”
Saginaw Transit
“Due to coverage problems with our old CB radio platform, we switched to a mobile phone system using a Kodiak push to talk over cellular app. We are a non-profit organization with 80 buses providing Medicaid and public transportation services in sixteen counties. As such, we are required to follow FTA distracted driving regulations and for the safety of our drivers and passengers chose a wired speaker mic to use with our tablets.
Several different brands were evaluated, with the clear winner being the Stone Mountain Elite. The product is extremely rugged, high quality and LOUD! It also allows us to charge the unit during daily use.
The Stone Mountain engineers helped us solve system implementation issues throughout the project. We love our new system and the Elite has proven to be very user friendly and reliable. Many thanks to the team at Stone Mountain for their products and support!”
Federated Transportation Services of the Bluegrass, Inc
Pam Shepard
Paul Dudley
“Linden Municipal Airport is a Federally Designated Reliever Facility for the Newark International Airport and the helicopter center for the New York City area. We are a busy general aviation airport and are responsible for managing all aspects of the facility including aeronautical and ground operations, aircraft fueling, and airport maintenance. Reliable communications are vital to keeping our people safe.
Our people are equipped with very heavy-duty noise cancelling industrial headsets attached to extreme duty hard hats. When going indoors, or inside a vehicle, they need to transition to a speaker microphone.
We needed a system that would allow us to connect the headsets directly to the speaker mic. Ours is a very tough environment and finding a solution was not as simple as it sounds.
We tried numerous speaker mic units. They were decidedly inadequate in our environment and failed quickly. Some had poor audio, impedance mismatches, or other technical incompatibilities.
I was referred to Stone Mountain, Ltd. Their engineers were clearly experts and very responsive. They immediately grasped the mechanical and technical issues with our application. I provided one of our headsets and a radio unit to them and within a week they supplied a fully tested Waterproof Phoenix LMR Speaker Mic and a custom interface cable to interconnect the headset to their speaker mic. Their [Phoenix LMR] speaker mic units have held up very well, even in our environment, and the staff is very satisfied with the high audio quality they provide. I would highly recommend you consider Stone Mountain for your communications needs.”