Scenes from PSCR Week–June 3-6, 2014

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 […]

Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),  showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]

  Walt Magnussen, director of the Texas A&M University Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), outlines the workshops and field exercises that will be conducted as part of the annual Winter Institute, which will be conducted Jan. 27-31 at the Disaster City facility on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. Next month’s field […]

Spirent Communications has done initial testing of LTE telephony voice in recognized public-safety noise scenarios and plans to continue such tests as technologies like 3GPP-standard mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) services are introduced in the market, according to company officials. Testing of LTE voice is common in the commercial marketplace, but Spirent Communications has decided to test LTE […]