Newscan: London firefighters used drone to battle Greenfell tower blaze

Much of the attention on 5G technology centers on a future of smarter phones, drones and self-driving cars. But 5G’s role in next-generation industrial IoT applications bears watching as well. While 5G may be one among many evolutionary steps, it is important in the development of new industrial IoT use cases. 5G connectivity, is the fifth […]

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 […]

Niki Papazoglakis, the principal at Mobility 4 Public Safety, outlines the purpose of Bridge 4 Public Safety (B4PS), a proof-of-concept initiative led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology directorate that hopes to encourage the development of a secure, no-cost/low-cost collaboration tool that will let first responders safely message each other […]

A federal jury in Illinois today ruled unanimously that Hytera Communications stole land-mobile-radio (LMR) trade secrets and infringed upon copyrights owned by Motorola Solutions, awarding $764.6 million in damages to the Chicago-based, LMR-industry giant. Originally filed in March 2017, the trade-secret theft lawsuit was part of Motorola Solutions’ multi-pronged legal attack against Hytera, which included […]