News Motorola Solutions announces Safe Schools platform 1st May 2020 Motorola Solutions this week announced Safe Schools, a platform that leverages multiple technologies—voice, data, analytics and video—into an integrated solution that is designed to make educational campuses safer and operationally more efficient. John Zidar, senior vice president of Motorola Solutions’ global enterprise and channels business, said many technology components within Safe Schools, but the new […]
Partner content Seven types of data guiding COVID-19 decision-making as we move from response to recovery 30th April 2020 The rate of spread of COVID-19 varies from state to state, with some successfully flattening the curve while others still await peak infection levels. As governors wrestle with how and when to begin reopening businesses and easing shelter-in-place orders, they must lean on reliable, accurate, and timely data to take decisive action that will ultimately […]
Partner content Connectivity to prevent highway pileups 29th April 2020 Cranfield University researchers in the UK are participating in a Multi-Car Collision Avoidance (MuCCA) research and development project. This project which aims to reduce the number of motorway pile-ups involving a number of vehicles. The university says the project is examining how to prevent or reduce multi-vehicle collisions with artificial intelligence (AI) and V2V communication […]
News NICE provides free Xpress digital-evidence platform to public safety during COVID-19 pandemic 29th April 2020 NICE recently announced that its Investigate Xpress digital-evidence-management platform is available at no cost to public-safety entities wanting to gather and process evidence this year without the need for face-to-face interaction—a key characteristic in a period of social-distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Botz, director of global marketing for NICE, said this offering provides […]
News Newscan: Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine? 29th April 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine? In Jackson, Mississippi, AI-powered cough bots and COVID-19 maps fuel response Social-distancing-detecting ‘pandemic drones’ dumped over privacy concerns Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years AT&T slams FCC’s plans for 6 GHz band Elon Musk says […]
News FirstNet tops 1.3 million connections, 12,000 agencies, AT&T says 28th April 2020 FirstNet supports more than 1.3 million connections across more than 12,000 agencies, according to figures supplied last week by AT&T, the FirstNet Authority’s nationwide contractor responsible for building the nationwide public-safety broadband network. AT&T provided the updated FirstNet numbers as part of the company’s report of earnings for the first quarter—the first reporting period impacted […]
Partner content Why industrial-automation security should be a renewed focus 28th April 2020 As industrial organizations grapple with COVID-19 fallout, automation has become an even hotter topic. Experts fear, however, that the acceleration of automation could drive unforeseen consequences for organizations that don’t focus on security. “When it comes to automation and industrial control systems (ICS), there is no doubt haste makes more than waste,” said Dan Miklovic, […]
Audio ESChat: Josh Lober discusses COVID-19 impact on PTT business 27th April 2020 ESChat Josh Lober explains the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) company, in terms of internal operations and subscribing customers.
Partner content With connected cars, zero trust is the best security advice 26th April 2020 The road to fully autonomous vehicles has many obstacles but perhaps none more insidious than hacking. Cybersecurity experts say improvements have been made but there’s much work to be done to secure vehicles before and during production as well as years later once they’re on the road. McAfee recently made headlines by hacking a Tesla […]
Partner content Return on 5G infrastructure investment remains a puzzle 23rd April 2020 Despite the initial optimism surrounding 5G, achieving return on investment on the technology remains uncertain for telecommunications operators. As a result, the prospect that t5G connectivity will spur a flurry of novel IoT applications will almost certainly be delayed. While deployments are steadily increasing, so are telcos’ costs. Although increasing cellular traffic underscores the need for […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 3 24th March 2024
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