Dispatch AI
Speak to our AI dispatcher over the radio to manage CAD status, dispatch calls, run record lookups, and more.
This feature is in a public BETA state.
Services may be intermittent and unreliable. Some features may experience issues.
Dispatch AI is not yet approved for full, production use. Utilize dispatch AI at your own risk.
This feature requires both Sonoran CAD Pro and Sonoran Radio Pro.
Setup
1. Copy Sonoran CAD API Information
Copy Sonoran CAD API Information
Dispatch AI requires a Sonoran CAD community ID, API key, and server ID.
The community ID and API key are located in the Admin panel > Advanced > In-Game Integration > Web API.
The server ID can be found in the Admin panel > Customization > Servers. The default server ID is 1.
2. Create an Open AI API Key (BYOK)
Open AI API Key
Currently, dispatch AI runs on a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) system for AI usage billing. This allows communities to maintain granular control of their AI expenses with OpenAI as a third-party. This system is subject to change in the future.
Sonoran Software Systems is not responsible for any unexpected or excess charges incurred from OpenAI or other third-party AI service providers. Communities are strongly encouraged to set spending limits, enable billing alerts, and actively monitor AI usage to ensure costs remain within approved thresholds.
Because OpenAI and all other AI providers are a third-party, Sonoran Software Systems has no ability to offer refunds or reduced rates for AI costs.
View the OpenAI API Key process here.
In the current beta, dispatch AI relies on the following models:
gpt-realtime-minigpt-5-nanogpt-4o-mini-transcribegpt-4o-mini-tts
3. Link CAD In Radio
Link CAD In Radio
In the radio Customization panel > Info > Select a server (or create one) and click on the Sonoran CAD icon. This will open a popup modal to enter in your CAD's community ID, API key, and server ID. Additionally, paste in your AI API key from the previous step.
4. Prompt Customization
AI Prompt Phrases
The AI has a set of tools it can use to take action in the CAD and on the radio—such as running lookups, creating calls, or updating statuses.
Radio traffic varies by community. One agency might say, “show me out on traffic with a blue sedan,” while another says, “create a traffic stop call with a blue sedan.”
Prompt phrase customization lets you train the AI to map your agency’s specific radio language to the correct system actions, so it responds appropriately to local lingo.
Keep your phrases short and direct. Adding too many phrases can eventually overload the AI's context window.
Invoke the AI
Via Wake Work
When pressing your push-to-talk key, a local AI listens to your microphone feed for the customizable wake word. By default, this is Dispatch.
Users can customize their wake word by pressing the microphone button and speaking their custom wake word.
Communities can also customize the default wake word for all users.
Prompting the AI
In order to reduce false triggers and conserve local resources, the AI will only listen to the first five seconds of your transmission. This amount can be modified in the Advanced tab of the Audio settings.
Upon detection of the wake word, an audible beep indicates that the AI has been activated. Users may begin speaking before the beep is heard, as long as the tone occurs at some point during the same transmission.
Example
If your wake word is Dispatch, then your transmissions to the AI would be as follows:
<wake word>, <optional: my unit number>, <action to do> Dispatch, A-10, mark me as available. Dispatch, A-10, run a lookup on the license plate ABC123
Via Hotkey (Web and Desktop)
Web and desktop users can also set a customizable hotkey in the settings menu. Pressing this keybind will enable the AI (same as the wake word) for your transmission.
FiveM: Via Hotkey
FiveM users can also set a manual keybind in the settings. Pressing this keybind will enable the AI (same as the wake word) for your transmission.
Enable/Disable the AI
Auto Disable w/Human Dispatcher
The AI can be automatically disabled whenever an active dispatcher is in the CAD.
When this feature is enabled, the AI will check for a dispatcher once per minute.
AI Commands & Features
CAD Functionality
CAD Status
The AI can update the status of you and other units to the stated, customizable status code.
Dispatch, A-10, mark my status as available. Dispatch, A-10, set B-11 and I to 10-8.
CAD Lookup
The AI agent can perform a name or plate lookup, send the results to your CAD, and notify you of brief details.
Dispatch, A-10, run a lookup on the plate ABC123. Dispatch, A-10, do a record check on first name John last name Doe.
CAD Dispatch Calls
Create Call
The AI can create a call and assign your unit. If your unit has a location, it will be automatically applied to the call unless otherwise specified. If a license plate is provided, it will automatically run a plate lookup and send the results to your CAD.
Dispatch, A-10, show me out on traffic with a blue four-door sedan. License plate ABC123.
Attach to Call
The AI can attach you and other units to an existing call by mentioning the call ID, location, postal, title, etc.
Dispatch, A-10, attach me to the robbery in progress call. Dispatch, A-10, attach B-11 to my call.
Call Notes
The AI can add a note to your active dispatch call for other units to see.
Dispatch, A-10, add a note on the call that I am arriving on-scene now, it's a white vehicle.
Detach from Call
The AI can lookup your current dispatch call and remove you from it.
Dispatch, A-10, clear my call.
Close Call
The AI can lookup and close your current dispatch call. Dispatch, A-10, close my call.
CAD Unit Groups
Group Units
The AI can add your unit (and others) to a new or existing group.
Dispatch, A-10, add me to group 'Ladder 12'. Dispatch, A-10, add myself and B-11 to group 'Ladder 12'.
Clear Unit Group
The AI can remove your unit (and others) from a group.
Dispatch, A-10, clear my unit group. Dispatch, A-10, remove B-11 and I's unit group.
CAD Panic
Dispatch, A-10, toggle my panic status.
The AI agent will enable or disable your panic status.
FIveM: Emergency Call Readout
In the Radio Zones menu, you can create custom zones and assign radio channels to each. When a 911 call is generated in CAD, the AI automatically creates a new dispatch call, reads the call over the channels configured for that zone, and removes the 911 call.
FiveM: GPS Route to Postal
In order to route your GPS to a postal code, the Nearest Postal resource is required.
Or, another resource that can handle the command /postal <id>.
The AI can draw an in-game GPS route to a postal code on the map.
Raw Postal:
Dispatch, A-10, route me to postal 123. Dispatch, A-10, directions to postal 123.
Postal on a Dispatch Call
The AI can find an active dispatch call based on the ID, location, title, etc. Dispatch, A-10, route me to call 123. Dispatch, A-10, route me to the traffic stop call.
FiveM: GPS Route to Unit
The AI will route you to the coordinates of another active unit by providing their unit name, number, etc.
Dispatch, A-10, route me unit B-11. Dispatch, A-10, directions to unit J. Doe.
FiveM: Auto-Status on GPS Route + Arrival
This feature requires the Nearest Postal resource version v1.5.4 or newer.
When the AI routes a user to a specific postal code or GPS coordinate (unit location) it will automatically set your status as en-route. Upon arrival, the AI will automatically mark your status as on-scene.
The radio resource's config.lua contains Config.autoOnSceneStatus with options to tweak the settings.
Radio Functionality
Coming soon!
Settings
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