Tag: Personnel Tracking

Mutualink: Mike Wengrovitz showcases non-wearable IoT device featuring Intel’s Edison chip

• 23rd March 2016

Mike Wengrovitz, Mutualink’s vice president of innovation, explain how a public-safety Internet of Things (IoT) device powered by Intel’s Edison chip can enhance situational awareness, whether it is embedded into existing infrastructure or deployed as a standalone device.

Establishing appropriate policies in-building wireless systems a key to safety of citizens, first responders

• 19th August 2015

With a growing number of households depending on wireless technologies to be able to call 911 for help during an emergency—and be located by public safety—and the need for first responders to be able to communicate indoors to do their jobs, it is time to establish appropriate policies to ensure that in-building wireless are built to be effective and in the most cost-efficient manner.

TCS buys Loctronix to provide inertial-navigation-based solutions to locate 911 callers, first responders

• 24th July 2015

Telecommunication Systems (TCS) recently purchased Seattle-based inertial-navigation developer Loctronix to enhance the TCS portfolio of location-based solutions that can be leveraged to help first responders find 911 callers or to map the location of public-safety personnel at an incident scene, even when they are indoors.

Rave Mobile Safety: Todd Piett highlights functionality of new Smart911 Location module

• 3rd July 2015

Todd Piett, Rave Mobile Safety’s chief product officer, explains how the company’s new Smart911 Location solution leverages commercial location data from assets like Wi-Fi access points can help PSAPs more accurately identify where first responders can find an emergency caller.

Motorola Solutions: Brian Long highlights virtualization benefits in latest release of PremierOne CAD system

• 30th June 2015

Brian Long, senior solutions specialist at Motorola Solutions, outlines the benefits that virtualization brings to dispatch customers that migrate to the new PremierOne 4.0 platform, including scalability and accelerated disaster-recovery processes, during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.

Rave Mobile Safety unveils 911 location-accuracy solution for wireless callers indoors, outdoors

• 29th June 2015

DENVER—Rave Mobile Safety announces the “controlled release” of Smart911Location, a new feature of the company’s Smart911 platform that leverages information from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other commercial infrastructure to provide enhanced location accuracy when 911 is contacted via a wireless device.

Intrado: Scott Luallin, John Martyn highlight capabilities of Location Performance Management tool

• 22nd June 2015

Scott Luallin (left) and John Martyn, systems architects for Intrado, outline the capabilities of Intrado’s Location Performance Management (LPM) tool, which can be used to drive location accuracy and provide a methods to help users and network operators measure system performance levels at locations throughout the network territory.

Intrado: John Snapp discusses the potential dangers, benefits of 911 mobile applications

• 4th June 2015

John Snapp, senior technical officer for Intrado, outlines the potential benefits–and dangers–associated with mobile applications for 911. In fact, Snapp says next-generation location applications are “the biggest change for enabling 911 since wireless first came out.”

FCC E911 location ruling the first step in journey to improved emergency-response times

• 17th April 2015

By John Vetter, Sunsight Instruments

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should be commended for its recent unanimous ruling in favor of increased horizontal-axis location accuracy requirements for Wireless Enhanced 911 (E911) systems, and for providing guidance on a path to develop and implement vertical-axis solutions and requirements.

South Carolina county turns to Motorola Solutions, Intrado for integrated text-to-911 solution

• 3rd February 2015

Kershaw County, S.C., announces that it has become the first agency in South Carolina to implement a fully integrated text-to-911 service, choosing a solution provided by Motorola Solution and Intrado.