What’s on #Whelen1? The future of nighttime safety, that’s what! This demo truck is loaded with our newest innovations, like the WeCanX Tracer. Follow the link below to learn more and check out Whelen 1 in the June issue of Fire Apparatus Magazine!https://t.co/cY7nIN4rIn pic.twitter.com/OvkanapsBL
— Whelen Engineering (@WhelenEng) June 8, 2022
Whelen Engineering Booth #4438
Indianapolis, IN
We’re excited to introduce many new products this year at FDIC!
Our best-in-class M Series™ lightheads just got better. The new M9 EZ features expanded zone efficiency, enhanced optics, and increased functionality. Select from multiple turn-on styles and low power settings for more efficient lighting output and performance. The M9 EZ’s dynamic functionality lets you shine the light where you need it the most. M Series lightheads feature a unique lens shape and patented Linear-LED® reflector assembly for unmatched high-intensity illumination with low current consumption.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Our premium 900 Series scene lights provide optimal versatility and performance. Now available with added features and functionality, the 900 EZ Series scene lights have expanded options and configurations, including multiple turn-on styles and situation-specific low power settings.
PRODUCT FEATURES
Now available in red and yellow, our Perimeter Enhancement Lights deliver high-intensity, downward projected white ground lighting to illuminate the work area around emergency and utility vehicles. Their multi-purpose design makes them an ideal solution for a variety of vehicle applications!
Whelen’s highly popular M Series™ lightheads are now available with DUO™ functionality in the M4, M6, M7, and M9 models. Features include advanced Linear-LED® optics for unmatched high intensity warning and low current consumption, water block technology, and DVI enabled light patterns. M Series DUO is available in 12V.
Our newest lightbar, the WeCanX® 2250, packs more power into a sleeker design. Combining the performance and reliability of our ION™-T Series with the customization and control of WeCanX®, its versatility makes it an ideal lighting solution for a wide range of applications. WeCanX 2250 is slimmer than our 4500 series, provides warning options and allows aerial recognition. Add the optional Load Light module and the 2250 illuminates ground area as well.
Product Features:
A thoughtful redesign of the popular light arrays, the WeCanX® Tracer™ provides significant improvements in functionality, configurability, and performance. Engineered to increase vehicle visibility, the Tracers now connect over the WeCanX network and offer more customization than ever before. Enhanced optics provide dynamic lighting output and control. Lightheads are daisy-chained together in lengths of one to six modules, with each module containing four individually controlled segments for contiguous lighting display and expanded configuration to meet a variety of needs. Upgraded lens design and IP67 rating for dust and water resistance improve performance and durability.
Created to enhance first responder safety, CenCom Core® redefines control systems by providing the greatest configurability, speed, and expansion yet. Built to scale with your needs, Core is designed for vast configuration and offers advanced automation, remote connectivity, and true system synchronization.
Core-R® is an all-new decentralized design providing the freedom to customize your control system to fit your needs. Engineered to enhance first responder and motorist safety with the same configurability, advanced automation, and remote connectivity of CenCom Core, but in a smaller and more customizable architecture.
Core-C™ is the heart of a support vehicle lighting system and allows full command of lights with one simple controller. With enhanced WeCanX® safety features, Core-C delivers the intelligence of a WeCanX controller and the functionality of a control head in one convenient and compact package.
Manage vehicle configurations and firmware updates over-the-air, create faster response times with real-time information, view heatmaps of fleet activity, and easily organize your fleet and Whelen product information. All of your data is safe and available, wherever you are.
Did you know? CenCom Core® has an output designed exclusively for an internal cabin speaker, so vehicle occupants can easily monitor and hear the broadcast of Digital Voice Messages (DVM) without noise interference!
To learn more visit https://t.co/pizjwts5wS pic.twitter.com/CZj7bpjxxP— Whelen Engineering (@WhelenEng) April 7, 2022
Only one week to go until #FDIC2022 and we’re busy getting our booth and vehicles ready for a big reveal that you won’t want to miss. Make sure to stop by Whelen Booth #4438! We can’t wait to see you there! pic.twitter.com/XOhAoIZOPD
— Whelen Engineering (@WhelenEng) April 21, 2022
A closer look at the evolution of Whelen control systems. – From the Staff at Whelen Engineering
When Whelen was born in 1952, we set out with a mission to keep first responders and motorists safe at every scene by designing and building state-of-the art visual and auditory warning products. But stopping at visual and auditory warning products would disservice our first responders, so we engineered control systems to tie them all together. These systems allow users to control virtually every aspect of one’s vehicle from one convenient device. This technology evolved over the years and provides key functionality to improve first responder safety.
Since our first network-based vehicle warning system, B-Link®, came out in 1993, our control systems have evolved to work with innovative technology, advanced products, and new vehicles. No control system is one size fits all. Each release offered a new and improved feature set to accommodate more first responders. Below, we walkthrough the development of control systems at Whelen.
CanTrol was released in 2010 and remained our premium product until Core was later released in 2019. CanTrol offers endless possibilities for our users. This control system was so advanced and complex for its time that it required trained professionals to ensure CanTrol was being used to its full capacity. CanTrol even had its own platform when it was released; however, today, CanTrol can be programmed through our new software, Whelen Command™. Whelen’s in-house training still provides thorough knowledge to support distributors through the high-level sophistication that CanTrol possesses.
Released in 2012, CenCom Sapphire™ was the first of the new generation of control systems and is still offered today. Sapphire is an entry level system and comes pre-programmed, is easy to use, and was the first system to integrate WeCan instead of requiring a separate module. Sapphire offers a straightforward control solution and is often found on administrative vehicles.
In 2015, our team realized that the world needed a system that offered a user-friendly option with many of the same capabilities as CanTrol. Carbide paired two of our popular control systems on the market at the time featuring the customization of CanTrol® and the connectivity of Sapphire™. Carbide adds to Sapphires flashing outputs which provides more customization without added complexity. Carbide effectively simplified programming without sacrificing functionality for users.
Our most intelligent control system, CenCom Core, was released in 2019. Our engineers set out to reset the standard for control systems with Core. With the greatest configurability, speed, and expansion yet, Core is designed to enhance officer safety with advanced automation and remote connectivity. Core features an all-new design with easy access to every connector from the top of the box. Core also features WeCanx™ technology and can receive remote firmware and configuration updates using the Whelen Cloud Platform™ . Core also introduces Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Sync which automatically synchronizes lights and tones on multiple vehicles.
Core introduces Dynamic Variable Intensity (DVI™) patterns, a series of flash patterns designed to help create an advanced level of safety at nighttime emergency scenes. Building on Whelen’s situation-based nighttime mode, DVI patterns produce safer environments for first responders by gradually increasing and decreasing warning light intensity. DVI patterns help better convey visual information to approaching motorists, clearly indicating when an emergency vehicle is parked and improving their ability to navigate around an emergency scene safely.
Whelen has been engineering control systems since 1993 and continues to revolutionize the market with each improvement. From simple on/off capabilities to our new state of the art Core control system, Whelen products offer a control solution for everyone’s needs.
