Newscan: Louisiana city’s first 911 text leads to burglary arrest

By some estimates, over 90% of all 911 calls in some areas are made from wireless phones. But the kinds of disasters that can generate those calls can also impact the infrastructure that supports them – meaning, hurricanes, wildfires and other natural or man-made calamities can hobble or destroy the wireless networks we rely on to […]

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L3Harris Technologies today unveiled the XL Connect 95 portable radio, the first in a series of XL Connect radios that are designed to deliver P25 connectivity at more affordable price points than the vendor’s XL-series devices, according to company officials. Todd Perdieu, vice president of strategy for the L3Harris Technologies public-safety business, said the XL […]

Fleet tracking, asset tracking, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing automation and warehousing are all areas in which artificial intelligence-embedded chip technologies can offload network data-carrying loads. They can do this while providing frontline, real-time information. Many of these on-the-go processes need lots of data to be activated. At the same time, they need this data in real […]