Scenes from PSCR Week–June 3-6, 2014

Public-safety entities are increasingly willing to adopt the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T—particularly as first responders recognize its value during the COVID-19 pandemic, FirstNet Authority board Chairman Ed Horowitz said this week. Horowitz said he believes FirstNet reached its “tipping point” last December, when AT&T reported more than 1 million FirstNet […]

  Dan Zeiler, director of NGCS cybersecurity at Motorola Solutions, explains how cybersecurity needs have evolved as 911 centers migrate to architectures that allow access to sensor information that is located in a variety of databases. With this technological shift, 911 centers should consider new technologies to address security beyond the traditional “walled-garden” approach, he […]

  Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), highlights key features of PSCR 2020: The Digital Experience, a virtual version of PSCR’s Annual Broadband Stakeholder Meeting that will not be conducted as an in-person event amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning July 27, […]

The Internet of Things introduces new, sometimes unanticipated, safety risks. Safety-critical applications, of course, have relied on software for decades. The Apollo flight program John F. Kennedy launched in 1961, for instance, used onboard flight software. But the proliferation of connected devices in industrial environments has enabled a world in which software runs core processes […]