Agilent receives international technology testing contract

  Howard Fan, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, explains how Proximity Service (ProSe) technology—the LTE standard for direct-mode communications—can be leveraged to determine the location of a user, even when network infrastructure is unavailable. Fan spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders Meeting conducted this […]

Originally slated to be a three-year project that would be completed more than a decade ago, the 800 MHz rebanding initiative is nearing completion and could be done next year, according to information from an FCC official and a recent FCC filing from Sprint, which has funded the massive rebanding effort. Michael Wilhelm, chief of […]

  Hun-Seok Kim, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, outlines the progress his team has made to develop an “infrastructure-light” location solution that is designed to leverage  2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz Wi-Fi signals to deliver location data that is accurate within 10 centimeters. Kim spoke with IWCE’s Urgent […]

  Terese Manley, prize competition and challenge specialist for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Open Innovation team, discusses past and upcoming PSCR prize challenges that are designed to evaluate the capabilities of drones carrying an LTE base station to provide first responders with a wide swath of coverage in locations where typical terrestrial cell […]