Feb 2, 2012 4:47 PM, By Donny Jackson (donald.jackson@penton.com)
Location technology that can let first responders know what floor a mobile wireless caller is on in a multistory building should be available within 18 months, according to Polaris Wireless CEO Manlio Allegra....
Mark Twain’s response to the widely circulated news reports of his death in May 1897 — “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” — serves as a great lead-in to one of the most troubling public-safety communications rumors of our time. Unfortunately, as ads for my favorite imported ultimate driving machine point out, “Perception is Reality.”...
When broadband communications finally come to the public-safety sector, many agencies will be forced to operate — and collaborate — in ways that will seem quite foreign at first. But ultimately it will help them navigate to an exciting new frontier....
