System and method for cross agency device interoperability management

A method of establishing cross-agency communications for managing an incident scene, comprising:

• pairing a communication device with an in-vehicle computer of a vehicle, each paired communication device being a converged device;
• receiving an incident notification including incident type;
• determining that more than one vehicle has been deployed to the incident, each having a paired communication device;
• determining agency role associated with each deployed vehicle;
• determining if the number of deployed vehicles and agency role associated with each deployed vehicle are sufficient to manage the incident type using traditional communication modes;
• triggering a cross-agency communication mode when the number of deployed vehicles and agency role associated with each deployed vehicle are insufficient to manage the incident type;
• establishing the cross-agency communication mode by:
• comparing device capabilities of the paired communication devices associated with each deployed vehicle;
• determining communication commonalities within the device capabilities amongst the paired communication devices of vehicles of different agency roles;
• determining one or more frequency channels common to the paired communication devices associated with deployed vehicles of different agency roles;
• and
• establishing communication amongst paired communication devices associated with vehicles of different agency roles using a common channel of the one or more frequency channels common to the paired communication devices associated with the deployed vehicles of different agency roles.