Video Monetti & Associates: Gary Monetti talks about the intersection of IoT and aerospace 18th May 2019 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 […]
Video AT&T: Mike Zeto highlights features of new public-private partnership with the city of San Jose 16th May 2019 Mike Zeto, AT&T’s vice president of IoT solutions and general manager of smart cities, discusses aspects of the carrier’s public-private agreement with the city of San Jose that was announced this week during the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif.
Video Joint Venture Silicon Valley: Jeff Lewis discusses the potential value of partnerships 16th May 2019 Jeff Lewis, director of the smart-region initiative for Joint Venture Silicon Valley, outlines the benefits that government entities can realize by coordinating communications initiatives with each other and key private entities, such as utilities and telecom firms. Lewis also cites some of the challenges associated with forging such relationships, such as short election cycles […]
Video IoT World Hackathon: Father, daughter help team Smart Ag develop winning smart-farming solution 15th May 2019 Priya Kshirsagar (left) and her father, Sudhir Kshirsagar, of team Smart Ag talk about the smart-farming solution that they helped develop during a 48-hour period this week to win the hackathon contest conducted this week at the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif. The Smart Ag design would let farmers low-cost, low-power Internet […]
News Backhaul problems, disjointed recovery efforts key causes of ‘unacceptable’ extended wireless outages after Hurricane Michael, FCC report says 10th May 2019 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 […]
Video Kymeta: Ben Posthuma outlines how satellite service can help public safety, autonomous vehicles 9th May 2019 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 […]
News FirstNet tops 600,000 connections, adds three flying COWs to deployable assets, according to AT&T 7th May 2019 More than 7,250 agencies have subscribed to 600,000-plus connections over the FirstNet system, which has been bolstered by three flying cell on wings (flying COWs) that are designed to provide deployable LTE coverage during emergency response efforts, FirstNet contractor AT&T announced today. Less than two weeks ago, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced on April 24 […]
News AT&T launches narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) as complement to LTE-M for Internet of Things connectivity 6th May 2019 AT&T recently launched narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) service to support the simplest sensors—typically using little bandwidth and power—with potential price targets of $5 per NB-IoT module and data plans of $5 per year, according to a company official. Internet of Things (IoT) pundits have long projected that billions of devices would be connected to fuel an […]
News Motorola Solutions execs cite ‘strong’ LMR demand, company’s diversified portfolio 3rd May 2019 Demand for mission-critical land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems continues to be “strong,” but Motorola Solutions’ offerings extend well beyond this traditional core to sectors like dispatch, video, analytics and software suites, company CEO Greg Brown said today. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Brown noted that he expects software and services to account for “about one-third” of […]
News Newscan: Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods 1st May 2019 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods San Francisco teams with Uber, location tracker on 911 call responses Californa bill would stop data throttling during emergencies Denver cops launch sticky GPS trackers in pilot program CLTC wants return of raided 911 funds, infrastructure money in Guam FirstNet on […]
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
Video Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023 Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit