IWCE Video Showcase: Hytera

[Editor’s note: The following is a statement from Hytera US regarding an IWCE’s Urgent Communications article posted on Nov. 12 about the enactment of the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, which references an FCC list of China-based firms. After Hytera officials expressed their objections about the story’s accuracy, IWCE’s Urgent Communications removed the article from […]

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing machine learning-enhanced high-definition (HD) cameras to monitor wildfires. The company’s Wildfire Safety Operations Center (WSOC) has installed 138 new cameras as part of a network spanning high fire-threat districts. Of those 138 cameras, 46 are included in the new AI testing program using technology developed by Alchera, […]

Those who live in the northeastern United States are intimately familiar with all five seasons—summer, autumn, winter, spring and pothole season. When warmer weather finally arrives, melting snow reveals roads and bridges riddled with cracks and frost heave-inflicted pockmarks—damage taxpayers are accustomed to financially covering. That’s because maintaining public roadways through taxation has become as American as apple pie.  But with the industrial era disappearing in the […]

New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) police are communicating on a 700 MHz P25 Phase 2 system designed by L3Harris that has demonstrated automatic roaming with a Motorola Solutions P25 network in another state, as well as ongoing interoperability with LTE-based FirstNet users. John Vallarelli, the MTA Police Department captain who led the multiyear […]