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Univ. of Colorado: Max Hollingsworth outlines public-safety benefits of mobile edge computing, heterogeneous networks

  Max Hollingsworth, a computer-science student at the University of Colorado, explains how software-driven mobile edge computing can help improve communication performance for first responders in the field and how leveraging heterogeneous broadband networks–for example, proposed CBRS systems operating in the 3.5 GHz band–can improve network resiliency and availability for public safety. Hollingsworth spoke with […]

Motorola Solutions exec shares company’s approach toward AI, development of other innovative technologies

Motorola Solutions is exploring the capabilities of artificial intelligence and other new technologies, but the public-safety communications giant is striving to use them in a manner that improves the mission workflow and lets human beings make the ultimate decisions, according to a company executive. Paul Steinberg, Motorola Solutions’ senior vice president of technology, acknowledged that […]

Rural Colorado sheriff’s department uses Samsung, Visual Labs, FirstNet to provide an affordable body-cam solution

Body-camera video has become an important—and sometimes expensive—tool for law-enforcement agencies in recent years, but a Colorado sheriff says he is leveraging Samsung smartphones, FirstNet connectivity and Visual Labs’ video platform to deliver an effective and affordable video solution for his rural department. Sheriff Tom Ridnour of Kit Carson County, Colo., said that some personnel […]

PSCR: Terese Manley highlights efforts to provide public safety with LTE coverage via untethered drones

  Terese Manley, prize competition and challenge specialist for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Open Innovation team, discusses past and upcoming PSCR prize challenges that are designed to evaluate the capabilities of drones carrying an LTE base station to provide first responders with a wide swath of coverage in locations where typical terrestrial cell […]

FCC data shows public-safety LMR licensing activity continues to drop during first half of 2019, while business sector remains flat

Public-safety land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity during the first half of 2019 is lagging behind last year’s record-low pace, while LMR licensing activity in the business-industrial sector is almost identical to the first six months of 2018. According to the FCC’s Universal Licensing System (ULS) database, the agency has received 1,451 applications for new and modified […]
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