Newscan: U.S. police embrace AI, cloud computing to boost public-safety efforts

The COVID-19 crisis has hit the global supply chain from all sides. Shortages for in-demand products abound, while shipment delays are common and production lines run at a fraction of capacity. Erratic consumer demand adds further dysfunction. Supply chains will survive COVID-19, of course, but not without interim pain and structural change. Practitioners must develop a data […]

Ease of use, audio quality and cost effectiveness are key reasons why push-to-talk-over-LTE technology has become an accepted part of modern public-safety communications—although not at the exclusion of land-mobile-radio (LMR) voice—according to speakers from the EMS, fire and law-enforcement communities. TJ Kennedy, co-founder of The Public Safety Network consulting firm and former FirstNet Authority president, […]

  Chris Sullivan, global healthcare practice lead for Zebra Technologies, explains how the company’s devices and software delivered across the FirstNet LTE system help reduce wait times and improve accuracy within temporary COVID-19 test centers that have been established throughout the nation. Sullivan spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson as part of the […]

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