Core® Control Systems
Your Fleet’s Most Powerful Ally.
With advanced control, seamless integration, and safety-first innovation, Whelen Core® is engineered to tackle your biggest challenges - keeping your team focused, protected, and mission-ready at all times.
Now including Core+ for enhanced safety and control.
Real Challenges, Real Solutions
Fleet management isn’t just about lights and sirens - it’s about seamless communication, precise control, and instant adaptability. Our Core control systems integrate cutting-edge technologies to overcome the toughest challenges faced by modern fleets, ensuring every operation runs safely and efficiently.
Simplified System Integration
Managing multiple systems for lighting, sirens, and warning equipment creates inefficiencies. Core leverages WeCanX® to unify a fleet’s lighting, sirens and warning systems into one scalable communication platform, ensuring precise synchronization, faster response times, and streamlined vehicle functionality.
As response environments become more demanding, agencies need ways to enhance awareness, streamline tasks, and support operator focus - without introducing new layers of complexity. Core+, now included with select Core control systems, adds connected features designed to automate certain functions, improve communication, and deliver greater visibility, helping teams respond more safely and efficiently from day one.
Operating without access to live diagnostics and performance data makes it difficult to track equipment health, identify maintenance needs, or ensure fleet readiness. This lack of connectivity can result in delayed responses, compromised safety, and higher operating costs. Core integrates seamlessly with the Whelen Cloud Platform®, providing instant access to premium features like diagnostics, tracking, and updates, ensuring every vehicle operates at peak efficiency.
Intuitive Controls
Complex controls lead to errors in high-pressure scenarios. With Core, operators gain access to Whelen Command®'s customizable interface, enabling seamless control of all vehicle systems. This ensures standardized functionality across all fleets, giving teams the tools they need for confident, consistent performance.
NEW! Core+ Enhancement Features
Now included with Your Purchase of Core Control Systems*
Every Core Control System equipped with Core+ comes with a Vehicle Safety Gateway® (VSG®) and five years of connected service, included at no additional cost. Once your VSG is activated, your system is ready to deliver intelligent automation, connected capabilities, and long-term reliability—keeping your fleet mission-ready from day one.
No Additional Cost. No Subscription.
*Select Models Only
No Additional Cost. No Subscription.
*Select Models Only
Core+ Feature Highlights
GEOFENCE-CONTROLLED TECHNOLOGY
Automate vehicle functions based on precise geographic zones to improve safety and efficiency.
• Adjust flash patterns and sirens at intersections
• Receive in-cab alerts for hazardous roadways
• Activate cruise lights in work zones, neighborhoods, and school areas
• Trigger DVM tones for natural disasters or active emergencies
• Reduce siren volume in school zones during school hours
• Control warning equipment based on vehicle location
• Adjust flash patterns and sirens at intersections
• Receive in-cab alerts for hazardous roadways
• Activate cruise lights in work zones, neighborhoods, and school areas
• Trigger DVM tones for natural disasters or active emergencies
• Reduce siren volume in school zones during school hours
• Control warning equipment based on vehicle location
DEVICE LOCK
Prevent unauthorized changes by locking configuration and firmware updates on individual vehicles or your entire fleet with a simple workflow.
OVER-THE-AIR FIRMWARE AND CONFIGURATION UPDATES
Simplify maintenance and reduce downtime with remote access to configuration and firmware updates.
• Deploy updates to one or multiple vehicles without visiting each in person
• Ensure consistent performance across your entire fleet
• Keep systems secure and ready with the latest updates
• Deploy updates to one or multiple vehicles without visiting each in person
• Ensure consistent performance across your entire fleet
• Keep systems secure and ready with the latest updates
Industry-Leading Advanced Technology
Dynamic Variable Intensity™ (DVI™)
Create a calm warning environment and bring an advanced level of safety to nighttime scenes. DVI patterns gradually increase and decrease warning light intensity, which better conveys visual information to approaching motorists at night.
Digital Voice Messages (DVM)
Configure clear and consistent messaging across a fleet with Digital Voice Messages. Messages can be customized for weather alerts, evacuation orders, traffic reports, bilingual messaging, and more.
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Sync
Automatically synchronize lights and tones on fleet vehicles within any proximity to create unified warning systems, streamlining operational coordination and enhancing scene safety by aiding approaching motorists.
The Whelen Core Family of Products
Core® Control Systems
CenCom Core® offers unmatched configurability, advanced automation, and remote connectivity, enhancing safety and efficiency for emergency vehicles.
Core® Control Systems
Core-S® is an all-in-one vehicle control system featuring seamless WeCanX® integration, ideal for fire, police, and utility vehicles.
Core® Control Systems
Core-R® is a modular, fully configurable vehicle control system with advanced automation, Dynamic Variable Intensity™ patterns, and remote connectivity via Whelen Cloud Platform® (WCP®) for fire, police, EMS, and utility vehicles.
Core® Control Systems
Core-C® delivers enhanced WeCanX® safety features, including Vehicle-to-Vehicle Sync and DVI™ light patterns, with convenient plug-and-play installation for work trucks.
Core® Control Systems
Core-R® DOT delivers complete configurability, automation, and remote connectivity, with advanced safety features for DOT vehicles, powered by WeCanX®.
Trusted to Protect
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“One of the things that we’ve recognized in the rare instances where we’ve been able to get a bunch of vehicles together that are all equipped with the core is they’ll sync up. And so instead of having a chaotic lighting pattern on the scene, you’ve got a consistent flash rate where all of the vehicles are flashing slowly back and forth. And this allows a driver to focus more on the other things on the scene rather than all the flashing lights. And that’s going to provide more safety to the responders.”
Chief John Reble, Milton Fire Department
The Whelen Promise
Tested and Proven to Perform in Every Environment
Engineered, Manufactured and Assembled in America
The Industry’s Strongest Warranty, Guaranteed
Elevate your fleet’s performance with an intelligent lighting and control system designed for precision, safety, and reliability. Core brings advanced innovation to your vehicles, putting unmatched control and efficiency in your hands.