Windy City Wire, a manufacturer of low-voltage wire and cable, will send members of its public safety team to the Safer Buildings Coalition's School Safety Tech and Wireless Seminar on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. The full-day event focuses on technology, best practices and practical guidance for safer schools, covering indoor mapping, panic alert systems, two-way radio and 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 seminar arrives as school safety requirements continue to expand across the United States. Tennessee is among the states that have enacted Alyssa's Law, which calls for silent panic alarms in K-12 schools. Such mandates matter beyond the alarm itself: once first responders arrive on scene, reliable in-building radio coverage is essential for them to communicate. That dependency is driving interest in the underlying wire and cable infrastructure that supports emergency communications.
Windy City Wire supports public safety DAS system projects with DAS cable, including its SmartGUARD line of 1/2-inch, plenum-rated coaxial cable for public safety bands such as VHF, UHF, 700/800 MHz, P25 and FirstNet. The company also 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. For school districts, fire officials and wireless professionals, that combination of product supply and technical support can shorten the path from regulatory requirement to functioning emergency communication system.
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. Their presence at the seminar signals that the company sees schools as a growing market for public safety communications infrastructure, particularly as more states consider panic alarm legislation similar to Alyssa's Law.
The implications extend to several industries. Cable manufacturers and distributors face rising demand for plenum-rated coaxial products engineered for public safety bands. DAS integrators and OEMs including RFS, ADRF, Westell and GWave depend on certified components and accurate bills of materials to deploy ERCES systems in schools. School administrators and local fire officials, meanwhile, must navigate new mandates while ensuring their buildings can support the radio coverage first responders need. Windy City Wire, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, manufactures low-voltage wire and cable for professional AV, security, fire alarm, structured cabling, building automation and DAS markets, and supports customers nationwide from 19 stocking locations.
Seminar details are available from the Safer Buildings Coalition at saferbuildings.org.
