Oklahoma Wireless Information Network

OKWIN is a forty-three site, 800 MHz trunked public safety communications radio system. OKWIN is a partnership between the city of Edmond, city of Norman, city of Shawnee, city of Tulsa, city of Owasso and the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS). All infrastructure equipment is owned and maintained by the OKWIN partners. The OKWIN system provides coverage to 70 percent of Oklahoma’s population. Coverage spans along Interstate 44 from the Texas border to the Missouri border and spans south of Oklahoma City along Interstate 35 to just north of Love County, near the Texas border.  Oklahoma’s three largest metropolitan areas are located within the coverage area of the OKWIN system. There are more than 520 agencies and 40,000 handheld and mobile radios currently operating on the OKWIN system.

The first five sites of the OKWIN system were installed in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area by DPS in the early 1980s. Additional sites in the Tulsa Metropolitan area were added to the network when the DPS and the city of Tulsa agreed to merge their two respective systems into a single system in the mid 1990s. Federal funding from the Homeland Security and Community Oriented Policing Services Grant Programs were used to integrate the cities of Edmond, Norman, Owasso and Shawnee’s existing 800 MHz trunked communication systems into the OKWIN system.