News AT&T must pay FCC $5.25 million, implement changes in settlement over two 911 outages last year 29th June 2018 AT&T Mobility must pay $5.25 million to the FCC and adhere to a compliance plan designed help ensure that 911 calls are completed as part of a settlement to close the investigation into two 911 outages that the agency described as “preventable” and “unacceptable,” the FCC announced yesterday.
News Avaya seeks to translate enterprise call-center success into 911 sector moving to NG911 27th June 2018 Avaya, a leading provider of contact-center solutions in the enterprise sector, has teamed with emergency-calling partners to pursue a more significant position in the 911 arena, as well as a more economic model for public-safety answering points (PSAPs) seeking next-generation 911 (NG911) functionality, according to a company official.
Video PSCR: K.K. Ramakrishnan, Hulya Seferoglu demo incident-management, facial recognition solutions 21st June 2018 University of California-Riverside Professor K.K. Ramakrishnan outlines the features of the incident-management solution his research team is developing to help organize personnel assets during large response events. Hulya Seferoglu, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, demonstrate how multiple devices can be leverage to accelerate a search based on facial-recognition technology.
News Apple to utilize RapidSOS to deliver 911 caller-location information to PSAPs 20th June 2018 Apple announces that its devices will utilize RapidSOS technology to share location data with public safety when emergency calls are made using iOS 12, an upgrade to the Apple operating-system platform that is scheduled to be released later this year.
News Zetron announces improved 911 location results from RapidSOS pilot project in Tennessee 20th June 2018 Zetron announces results from a pilot project using integrated location information from partner RapidSOS to deliver significantly better caller-location data quickly to public-safety answering points (PSAPs) receiving emergency calls
Video Univ. of Virginia: Homa Alemzadeh, Mustafa Hotaki showcase ‘Siri for first responders’ to help EMS 18th June 2018 Homa Alemzadeh and Mustafa Hotaki demonstrate how voice-recognition technology can be combined with analytics and artificial intelligence to help EMS personnel provide medical care with greater accuracy and efficiency, particular when responding to large-scale incidents.
Video TRX Systems: Carol Politi highlights company’s partnerships, deployment successes 15th June 2018 TRX Systems President and CEO Carol Politi explains how partnerships are helping the company realize widespread deployments and notes recent developments in its location technology.
Video Carnegie Mellon University: Anthony Rowe showcases firefighter-location technology 11th June 2018 Anthony Rowe, associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, demonstrates how an incident commander could leverage ultrawideband (UWB) beacon technology to track the location of firefighters, even when there is no traditional network infrastructure available.
Video Bittium: Jani Lyrintzis discusses IoT engineering work, teases new public-safety device 27th May 2018 Jani Lyrintzis, vice president and general manager at Bittium, highlights the wireless-engineering services that his company brings to the Internet of Things (IoT) space, including work as a partner for Verizon’s ThingSpace. Lyrintzis also talks about development of a next-generation public-safety device that could be announced later this year.
News Internet of Life-Saving Things (IoLST) promises to transform EMS industry, FirstNet’s McGinnis says 25th May 2018 Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel soon may leverage information from myriad medical devices and reliable broadband connectivity from FirstNet to provide better initial treatment to patients, as well as unprecedented situational awareness to others in the healthcare ecosystem, according to FirstNet board member Kevin McGinnis.
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