Parallel Wireless, Mutualink: Steve Kropper, Joe Boucher explain companies’ Super Bowl collaboration with Sonim

Rivada Networks has a working Android and Apple prototypes of its enhanced location-based service (E-LBS) that is designed to improve location-accuracy information for a variety of applications, from commercial uses to 911 calls to firefighter location, according to Rivada Networks CTO Clint Smith.

Alan Perdue, executive director for the Safer Buildings Coalition, discusses the organization's enhanced website, upcoming fire-code meeting and tomorrow's free webinar on in-building public-safety communications sponsored by SOLiD.

Dereck Orr, division chief for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program, details plans for his organization to hire about 15 people during the next year to conduct research work in new focus areas—for instance, analytics and location-based services—as well as LMR and LTE communications. PSCR is located in Boulder, Colo., as is the new Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) and the FirstNet technical team.

Joe Boucher of Mutualink (left) and Steve Kropper of Parallel Wireless explain how their companies—along with rugged handset maker Sonim Technologies—quickly deployed a Band 14 LTE network to support first responders assigned to securing an activities area in conjunction with last month's Super Bowl.