Windy City Wire will send members of its public safety team to Nashville, Tennessee, to meet attendees at the Safer Buildings Coalition's School Safety Tech and Wireless Seminar on Tuesday, November 17, 2026. The full-day event focuses on technology, best practices, and practical guidance for safer schools, covering indoor mapping, panic alert systems, two-way radio, emergency responder communication enhancement systems (ERCES), surveillance, medical response, and wireless connectivity. Attendees can earn continuing education credits, including CEUs, CPDs, CECs, and CDEs.
The announcement matters because school safety requirements are expanding, and the technical infrastructure behind them is becoming as important as the policies themselves. Tennessee is among the states that have enacted Alyssa's Law, which calls for silent panic alarms in K-12 schools. Such alarms only deliver their intended value if responders can communicate reliably once they enter a building, which is why in-building radio coverage is central to the seminar's agenda and to the work Windy City Wire is highlighting.
Windy City Wire supports public safety DAS system projects with DAS cable, including its SmartGUARD line of 1/2-inch, plenum-rated coaxial cable designed for public safety bands such as VHF, UHF, 700/800 MHz, P25, and FirstNet. Beyond cable, the company provides rough order of magnitude bills of materials, coordinates OEM certification for public safety DAS deployments with manufacturers including RFS, ADRF, Westell, and GWave, and offers industry education on DAS technologies and ERCES requirements. That combination of product supply, certification coordination, and education positions the company to help schools and their technology partners navigate deployments that must satisfy both building codes and responder communication needs.
The implications extend beyond any single campus. As more states adopt panic alarm mandates and as ERCES requirements tighten, demand is likely to grow for specialized cabling and for expertise that bridges the gap between school administrators, fire officials, and wireless professionals. Windy City Wire team members Darin Skyles, CTS; Gabriel Guevara; and Jim Bowen will be in Nashville to connect with school safety, fire, and wireless professionals about first responder DAS wire and cable, putting the manufacturer in direct conversation with the people specifying and approving these systems.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, Windy City Wire manufactures low-voltage wire and cable for the professional AV, security, fire alarm, structured cabling, building automation, and DAS markets. Its SmartWire technology and RackPack system are designed to reduce labor time on the jobsite, and the company supports customers nationwide from 19 stocking locations. For schools weighing safety upgrades, the seminar and the supplier's presence underscore that reliable in-building coverage depends on correctly specified cable and coordinated certification, not just the alarm device itself.
