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NetMotion, Cradlepoint announce technology alliance

NetMotion and Cradlepoint today announced a technology alliance that is designed to ensure that the companies’ complementary software and hardware products can work well together and that user agencies receive consistent input about best practices for implementing solutions to support broadband communications. NetMotion CEO Christopher Kennessey said that the alliance is a natural step, because […]

NYU Wireless: Marco Mezzavilla outlines public-safety benefits of 60 GHz comms, particularly with drones

Marco Mezzavilla, a research scientist at New York University (NYU) Wireless, explains how public-safety agencies could leverage 60 GHz unlicensed spectrum to deliver multiple-gigabits-per-second data speeds. One primary use case would be to enable real-time video streaming from aerial drones over one-mile links that could support a daisy-chain architecture to increase the total effective […]

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Newscan: House passes 911 dispatcher reclassification

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations House passes 911 dispatcher reclassification New York facing ‘Russian roulette’ with future power outages, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Blackout: Con Edison apologizes but offers few clues about ‘root cause’ Heeding the call for better technology, dollars flow into 911 communications Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge: Huawei should […]

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NIST: Fabio da Silva showcases prototype solution to locate victims, first responders in buildings

Fabio da Silva, staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, describes the features of a prototype deployable solution that is being developed to help locate people–for example, firefighters or the people they are trying to save during an incident–inside of a building by using ultrawideband (UWB) radar transmitted from just outside […]

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Haply Robotics: Felix Desourdy outlines potential benefits of haptics to first responders

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 […]

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FirstNet Chair Horowitz expects Authority to make multiple network investments each year

FirstNet Authority board members likely will make multiple decisions annually to invest in the FirstNet system as the nationwide public-safety broadband system evolves, with enhancing the network core and improving coverage being key near-term priorities, FirstNet Chairman Ed Horowitz said last week. In a keynote speech delivered last week at the PSCR Public Safety Broadband […]

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Univ. of Michigan: Hun-Seok Kim describes approach to low-cost, high-accuracy location solution

Hun-Seok Kim, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan, outlines the progress his team has made to develop an “infrastructure-light” location solution that is designed to leverage 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz Wi-Fi signals to deliver location data that is accurate within 10 centimeters. Kim spoke with IWCE’s Urgent […]

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Univ. of Memphis: Lan Wang explains how LiDAR-based 3D mapping could work for public safety

Lan Wang, chairwoman of the University of Memphis computer-science department, explains how LiDAR technology can be used to quickly build 3D maps of indoor locations that first responders can use to navigate unfamiliar facilities, even when visibility is impaired by smoke. Wang spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson last week during the […]

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Motorola Solutions buys WatchGuard for mobile video solutions

Motorola Solutions yesterday announced that it has acquired WatchGuard, a provider of mobile video solutions such as in-car video systems, body-worn cameras and evidence-management systems and software. A Motorola Solutions spokesperson today confirmed that the deal is complete. Because WatchGuard was a private company, the transaction is not subject to shareholder approvals or regulatory reviews […]

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Texas A&M: Suman Bhunia showcases LTE-network backpack, components of DistressNet-NG architecture

Suman Bhunia of Texas A&M University highlights the features of an LTE backpack–containing an LTE core and eNodeB base station–in development that could be carried by public-safety personnel into an area that lacks traditional network coverage. The backpack is a key piece to the DistressNet-NG architecture that also plans to leverage direct-mode communications, relay […]

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NetMotion, Cradlepoint announce technology alliance

NYU Wireless: Marco Mezzavilla outlines public-safety benefits of 60 GHz comms, particularly with drones

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Newscan: House passes 911 dispatcher reclassification

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NIST: Fabio da Silva showcases prototype solution to locate victims, first responders in buildings

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Haply Robotics: Felix Desourdy outlines potential benefits of haptics to first responders

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FirstNet Chair Horowitz expects Authority to make multiple network investments each year

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Univ. of Michigan: Hun-Seok Kim describes approach to low-cost, high-accuracy location solution

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Univ. of Memphis: Lan Wang explains how LiDAR-based 3D mapping could work for public safety

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Motorola Solutions buys WatchGuard for mobile video solutions

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Texas A&M: Suman Bhunia showcases LTE-network backpack, components of DistressNet-NG architecture

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FirstNet Authority standards director recaps June 3GPP Plenary Meetings in Newport Beach, Calif.

Exciting times: When it comes to innovation, there is a lot going on in the public-safety sector

Help wanted: 911 sector needs more early adopters

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