One of the executive-level leaders in many larger fire departments is the battalion fire chief. Typically, a battalion fire chief has years of experience in the tasks necessary to the smooth running of a fire department.
The SYNC computer, which Ford calls the Accessory Protocol Interface Module (APIM), is housed separately from the head unit, called the Audio Control Module (ACM), and interfaces with all vehicle audio sources as well as the high-speed and medium-speed vehicle CAN-buses.
The API itself is a chunk of software code written as a series of XML messages. Each XML message corresponds to a different function of the remote service. For example, in a conferencing API, there are XML messages that correspond with each element required to schedule a new Web conference.Those elements include the conference time, the organizer's name and contact information, who's invited to the conference, the duration of the conference, et cetera.ompanies who release their API often do so as part of a larger software development kit (SDK) that includes the API, programming tools and other instructional documents to make the developer's job easier.