News Federated Wireless teams with AWS, Microsoft on cloud-based CBRS offerings 20th February 2020 Federated Wireless this week announced a new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) private-network offering focused on Internet of Things (IoT) applications that will be delivered via marketplace platforms run by cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi stressed the importance of simplicity in the connectivity-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings that […]
Video TEEX: Warren ‘Country’ Weidler notes challenges integrating new technologies, dangers of autocorrect 20th February 2020 Warren “Country” Weidler, the search-and-rescue coordinator for Texas Task Force One and part of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), describes the recent cybersecurity-related response exercise conducted at the Winter Institute, where he led the incident-command post. With LMR radio unavailable under the scenario, chat messaging, pictures/video from drones and other communications methods were […]
Partner content The growing importance of safety-critical software in IoT 19th February 2020 The Internet of Things introduces new, sometimes unanticipated, safety risks. Safety-critical applications, of course, have relied on software for decades. The Apollo flight program John F. Kennedy launched in 1961, for instance, used onboard flight software. But the proliferation of connected devices in industrial environments has enabled a world in which software runs core processes […]
Partner content Russian wake-up call from winter autonomous-vehicle (AV) trials 18th February 2020 Global warming is doing its job on Moscow: in mid-December, there is very little frost or snow. Yet, it’s a high latitude winter with long nights and darkness that streetlights cannot fully illuminate. This is the background for the driverless Winter City competition. Five autonomous vehicles presenting different technical paradigms must accomplish the 31-mile route […]
News Manatee County (Fla.) selects RapidDeploy to provide cloud-based 911 tactical mapping, data analytics 18th February 2020 Manatee County, Fla., soon plans to install RapidDeploy’s cloud-based NG911 Bundle, which is expected to provide tactical-mapping and data-analytics capabilities to the county’s 911 emergency communications center. Funded with almost $100,000 from a state grant program designed to let public-safety answering points (PSAPs) procure next-generation 911 (NG911), the RapidDeploy Radius Plus platform being implemented in […]
Video PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform 17th February 2020 Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]
Partner content Smart-building energy-management systems yield cost savings 16th February 2020 One of the biggest challenges for commercial building owners and managers is how to reduce energy consumption and save money. Indeed, almost 40% of energy consumed in the U.S. powers commercial and residential buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But enabling smart technologies and real-time energy management systems can reduce costs by an average […]
Audio Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future 14th February 2020 Mission Critical Partners (MCP) CEO Kevin Murray talks about the consulting firm’s three acquisitions during the past 18 months, as well as how the additional expertise is designed to better position MCP to help advise 911 centers making the transition from voice-only operations to workflows that also integrate mulitimedia, including data and video.
Video Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities 12th February 2020 Lt. Jared Reinhardt of the Texas Military Department provides a tour of the organization’s deployable command vehicles, which support multiband LMR, cellular broadband, satellite backhaul and bridging technologies that are designed to enable interoperability between disparate systems. Reinhardt spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise conducted at the RELLIS campus […]
Partner content Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks 12th February 2020 Inseego is in the midst of testing how its products can work with products from CommScope, with an eye toward putting the two together in order to sell them to enterprises that want to build their own private wireless LTE networks. “Inseego is a cellular radio equipment (modem/gateway/router) provider, and is seeking to partner with […]
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