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RapidSOS: Tom Guthrie outlines ability to share gunfire-detection data with 911 centers

Tom Guthrie, senior vice president and general manager for the RapidSOS public-safety unit, highlights the information available to 911 personnel through his company’s newly announced partnership with SafeZone, a provider of indoor gunfire-detection technology, as well the eventual potential to share smart-building information with public safety automatically in the future.

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TCCA: Tony Gray discusses organization’s TETRA history, work toward LTE future

As TCCA celebrates its 25th anniversary, TCCA CEO Tony Gray talks about the organization’s support of the development of TETRA—the LMR standard for public-safety agencies in Europe and many other parts of the world—as well its crucial role in helping get the 3GPP standards body to create public-safety standards within LTE technology. As public-safety […]

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Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) CEO Kevin Murray talks about the consulting firm’s three acquisitions during the past 18 months, as well as how the additional expertise is designed to better position MCP to help advise 911 centers making the transition from voice-only operations to workflows that also integrate mulitimedia, including data and video.

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RapidDeploy: Steve Raucher outlines features of FirstNet-listed mobile app, Eclipse analytics platform

RapidDeploy CEO Steve Raucher highlights the capabilities of the company’s Nimbus CAD mobile application that has been listed by FirstNet and its Eclipse analytics platform, both of which leverage cloud functionality to help public-safety agencies make response decisions informed by real-time data.

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway previews education, keynotes and events for NATE Unite 2020

NATE Executive Director Todd Schlekeway outlines the themes, events and educational opportunities–highlighted by keynotes from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and former NASCAR driver Kyle Petty–available to attendees of NATE UNITE 2020, the organization’s annual national event that will be conducted Feb. 17-20 in Raleigh, N.C. Go to the NATE web site for more information […]

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Texas A&M ITEC: Walt Magnussen previews next month’s Winter Institute public-safety workshops, field exercises

Walt Magnussen, director of the Texas A&M University Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), outlines the workshops and field exercises that will be conducted as part of the annual Winter Institute, which will be conducted Jan. 27-31 at the Disaster City facility on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. Next month’s field […]

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IWCE: Stephanie McCall previews IWCE 2020, webinar for potential attendees on Dec. 17

IWCE Show Director Stephanie McCall talks about IWCE 2020, which will be conducted during the week of March 30 in Las Vegas. In addition to its traditional core of LMR technology, dealer networking and public-safety LTE, IWCE 2020 will feature education about emerging critical-infrastructure technologies such as 5G, NG911, the Internet of Things (IoT), […]

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Pyramid Consulting Services: Terry Burnworth outlines 911 information-overload challenges, previews Dec. 11 webinar

Terry Burnworth, president of Pyramid Consulting Services, explains the challenges that 911 centers–particularly smaller centers in rural areas–face as 911 transitions from a voice-centric operation to one that needs to process data, photos and video from a variety of sources, including IoT sensors, surveillance cameras and witnesses at an incident scene. On Dec. 11 at […]

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VoltServer: Stephen Eaves highlights safety, efficiency benefits of digital electricity to support communications

VoltServer CEO Stephen Eaves explains how digital electricity–packetizing electricity in a manner similar to packetizing data for communications–can be used simplify electrical installations, improve safety and enable enhanced power levels. By using digital electricity, building owners can realize savings while installing an electrical system, operating the system and potentially by qualifying for lower insurance […]

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ESChat: Josh Lober shares details about company’s PTT agreement with T-Mobile

ESChat CEO Josh Lober explains how his company’s recently announced relationship with T-Mobile to provide over-the-top (OTT) broadband push-to-talk (PTT) differs from its arrangement with other wireless carriers, including T-Mobile’s reselling incentives and simplified billing options.

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RapidSOS: Tom Guthrie outlines ability to share gunfire-detection data with 911 centers

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TCCA: Tony Gray discusses organization’s TETRA history, work toward LTE future

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Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future

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RapidDeploy: Steve Raucher outlines features of FirstNet-listed mobile app, Eclipse analytics platform

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NATE: Todd Schlekeway previews education, keynotes and events for NATE Unite 2020

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Texas A&M ITEC: Walt Magnussen previews next month’s Winter Institute public-safety workshops, field exercises

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IWCE: Stephanie McCall previews IWCE 2020, webinar for potential attendees on Dec. 17

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Pyramid Consulting Services: Terry Burnworth outlines 911 information-overload challenges, previews Dec. 11 webinar

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VoltServer: Stephen Eaves highlights safety, efficiency benefits of digital electricity to support communications

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ESChat: Josh Lober shares details about company’s PTT agreement with T-Mobile

Commentary

September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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IWCE 2019 Wrap Up