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Motorola Solutions: Bryon Wheaton demonstrates video capabilities from new Avigilon unit

Bryon Wheaton, sales engineering manager at Motorola Solutions, displays hardware and software offerings from Avigilon—the video-surveillance unit Motorola Solutions purchased earlier this year—including a demonstration of video-analytics capabilities.

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Nuance, Nexgen team to ease first responders’ reporting burden

Public-safety officers can be safer, spend less time on reports and more time protecting the protecting the public, thanks to a new integration of Nuance Communications’ speech-recognition software and Nexgen Public Safety Solutions’ computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and records-management systems (RMS) technologies.

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Newscan: Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement Supreme Court ruling means states can tax Amazon marketplace The tech side of Trump’s plan to reorganize government White House reorganization addresses cyber workforce gap NSA ‘systematically moving’ all its data to the cloud Chairman Thune pencils in […]

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PSCR: K.K. Ramakrishnan, Hulya Seferoglu demo incident-management, facial recognition solutions

University of California-Riverside Professor K.K. Ramakrishnan outlines the features of the incident-management solution his research team is developing to help organize personnel assets during large response events. Hulya Seferoglu, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, demonstrate how multiple devices can be leverage to accelerate a search based on facial-recognition technology.

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Univ. of Virginia: Homa Alemzadeh, Mustafa Hotaki showcase ‘Siri for first responders’ to help EMS

Homa Alemzadeh and Mustafa Hotaki demonstrate how voice-recognition technology can be combined with analytics and artificial intelligence to help EMS personnel provide medical care with greater accuracy and efficiency, particular when responding to large-scale incidents.

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Analytics crucial to effective IoT deployments, UPS exec says

Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives are all about gathering unprecedented levels of information, but this data is “useless” if enterprises do not couple IoT deployments with the analytics resources necessary to measure progress toward strategic goals, according to a United Parcel Service (UPS) executive.

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Motorola Solutions cites LMR optimism, expected extension of Airwave contract for at least five years

Motorola Solutions officials believe the company’s Airwave contract to supply TETRA services to first responders in the United Kingdom (UK) will be extended at least five more years, Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said yesterday during a conference calls to detail first-quarter earnings.

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Public-safety groups seek federal funds to pay for next-gen 911 (NG911) upgrades

Representatives of key public-safety organizations send a letter to Congressional leadership seeking “a significant federal grant program” to help pay to deploy IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) technology nationwide be included in the upcoming omnibus funding package being considered by federal lawmakers.

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Breaking down information silos makes cities smarter

The free and open flow of municipal data will increase municipal efficiencies, according to Jason Nelson, executive director of the Smart Cities Council.

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New Samsung Galaxy S9 devices include FirstNet Band 14 support, AT&T and FirstNet say

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones—unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona—are approved FirstNet devices that operate on the 700 MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to FirstNet, according to officials for FirstNet and its nationwide contractor, AT&T.

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Motorola Solutions: Bryon Wheaton demonstrates video capabilities from new Avigilon unit

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Nuance, Nexgen team to ease first responders’ reporting burden

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Newscan: Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement

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PSCR: K.K. Ramakrishnan, Hulya Seferoglu demo incident-management, facial recognition solutions

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Univ. of Virginia: Homa Alemzadeh, Mustafa Hotaki showcase ‘Siri for first responders’ to help EMS

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Analytics crucial to effective IoT deployments, UPS exec says

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Motorola Solutions cites LMR optimism, expected extension of Airwave contract for at least five years

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Public-safety groups seek federal funds to pay for next-gen 911 (NG911) upgrades

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Breaking down information silos makes cities smarter

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New Samsung Galaxy S9 devices include FirstNet Band 14 support, AT&T and FirstNet say

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