Case Study: Portage Volunteer Fire Company achieves faster emergency response and reduced data and hardware costs with 42Gears SureLock

42Gears helps Portage Volunteer Fire Company configure Tablets for Emergency service use

Portage Volunteer Fire Company, a volunteer emergency services provider serving three townships in Cambria County, adopted Samsung tablets running the Rover mobile app to speed responses but faced misuse, unauthorized browsing (driving up data bills), and the need to keep GPS “always on.” Seeking a kiosk lockdown that would whitelist only approved apps and prevent access to system settings, the fire company turned to 42Gears and its SureLock solution.

42Gears implemented SureLock to enforce a strict kiosk mode, whitelist the Rover app, block system settings, enforce active GPS, and deploy configurations to all devices quickly via import/export. The lockdown reduced data use by about 2–3 GB per device, lowered hardware replacement risk (saving roughly $400 per device), reduced device malfunctions, and helped improve response times and on-scene preparedness—delivering the focused, business-ready tablets Portage Volunteer Fire Company needed.