Newscan: Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods

Motorola Solutions has been awarded a 15-month contract extension worth 82 million pounds (more than $104 million) to supply Kodiak push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) and other Emergency Services Network (ESN) services for United Kingdom (UK) public-safety agencies through December 2024. In addition to adding time and money to Motorola Solutions’ previous ESN contract, the no-competition contract extension […]

  Mike Zeto, AT&T’s vice president of IoT solutions and general manager of smart cities, discusses aspects of the carrier’s public-private agreement with the city of San Jose that was announced this week during the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif.

Motorola Solutions today launched MOTOTRBO Nitro, a fully managed solution that will leverage LTE technology on the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to deliver business-critical voice and broadband data solutions to enterprises. “The unique thing about Nitro is that we’re going to be using the soon-to-be-available broadband spectrum called CBRS that the FCC […]

  Felix Desourdy, lead mechanical engineer for Haply Robotics, explains how haptics technology–the use of solutions that communicate via the sense of touch and motion–could be used to deliver messaging to first responders under stress, when their visual and hearing senses may be overwhelmed. At the PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders Meeting in Chicago, Haply […]