Incident Command/Situational Awareness

Smart-cities infrastructure helps San Diego deliver ‘mundane’ services more efficiently—and changes the life of a capital-crime suspect

Smart streetlights equipped with cameras and microphones help the city of San Diego better understand traffic patterns throughout the city, but the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure also has proven useful to law enforcement, preventing a wrongful prosecution a capital offense, according to a city official. Much of the promise of smart-cities and IoT initiatives […]

Itron: Philip Mezey explains how company’s IoT ecosystem helps utilities, smart cities and public safety be more resilient, efficient

Itron President and CEO Philip Mezey discusses the company’s experience leveraging connected meters, sensors and streetlights to provide utilities and smart cities with insightful, secure data that is designed to promote network resilience, efficient responses and preventative actions before problems occur. These open-platform data points also can be used to accelerate response efforts by utilities […]

Monetti & Associates: Gary Monetti talks about the intersection of IoT and aerospace

Gary Monetti, founder and managing director of Monetti & Associates consulting and engineering, talks about the recognition of a potential intersection between satellite services—particularly with the implementation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations—and the Internet of Things (IoT) industry that is seeking connectivity solutions for sensors that may be located outside the coverage range of […]

Backhaul problems, disjointed recovery efforts key causes of ‘unacceptable’ extended wireless outages after Hurricane Michael, FCC report says

Many wireless customers in the Florida Panhandle ‘unnecessarily’ lacked communications for days in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael last fall, because some carriers lacked resilient backhaul and failed to coordinate restoration efforts with utilities, clean-up crews and other carriers, according to an FCC report released yesterday. “Three key factors—insufficiently resilient backhaul connectivity, inadequate reciprocal roaming […]

Kymeta: Ben Posthuma outlines how satellite service can help public safety, autonomous vehicles

Ben Posthuma of Kymeta talks about the company’s satellite service, which delivers broadband signals to vehicles equipped with a flat antenna, as a complement to terrestrial 4G or 5G wireless broadband for public-safety or critical-infrastructure entities in rural locations today. In the future, Kymeta could serve as a similar connectivity complement to mass-market vehicles like […]
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