News PSIM brings myriad elements together to enhance emergency response 12th December 2013 With first-responder agencies getting information from multiple sources, physical security information management (PSIM) technology—first introduced about five years ago—can help them make sense of it all and enable quicker responses, according to Diamond Chaflawee, director of public-safety marketing for NICE Systems.
News FST21 helps enterprises secure facilities 10th December 2013 FST21 America offers a platform that combines facial and voice recognition with behavior monitoring to determine who is authorized to enter a facility.
Article Location data is sorely missing in emergency response—with dire consequences 26th November 2013 A national program needs to be created that standardizes critical geospatial data, metadata and security protocols, and which enables emerging technologies to deploy simple, nationally interoperable, real-time visual displays on our computers and smartphones.
Video Eye3Data provides 360-degree video surveillance from vehicles 12th November 2013 Amin Ansari, owner of Eye3Data, explains the features of his company’s mobile video-surveillance solutions to UC Editor Donny Jackson during the Communications Marketing Association (CMA) conference in Nashville, Tenn.
Commentary The future of public safety: Open minds needed to achieve goals 3rd October 2013 Public safety can achieve new levels of efficiency and effectiveness by leveraging new technologies, but this can only happen if leaders–elected officials and those within the first-responder community–are willing to embrace innovative ideas.
Commentary Tune in tomorrow to learn why interoperability remains elusive 24th September 2013 Just a week after a lack of radio interoperability hampered the response to the Washington Navy Yard tragedy, a six-member panel tomorrow will explore the challenges to interoperable communications during a webinar sponsored by Avtec.
News In an active-shooter situation, coordinated communication is essential, but often elusive 5th September 2013 William Pessemier—the former fire chief of Littleton, Colo., who oversaw incident command in the aftermath of the Columbine shootings—shared what he learned from the tragic event in terms of the importance of interoperability, radio-communications planning and incident command during a session at the recent Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) show in Anaheim, Calif.
Video NextNav CEO dishes on indoor location 29th August 2013 Gary Parsons, CEO of NextNav, talks about improvements that have been made regarding indoor location, along both the vertical and horizontal axis, during last week’s Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Anaheim, Calif.
Video Motorola highlights incident-command vehicle 23rd August 2013 Dhiren Chauhan, senior product manager for Motorola Solutions, explains the features in the company’s incident-command vehicle, which enables monitoring of multiple radio bands and real-time video.
Article Speaker: Emergency calls from children require tender loving care 22nd August 2013 When telecommunicators receive 911 calls from children, it is important to maintaining a calm,steady tone of voice, to provide constant reinforcement and to use short, simple sentences during the exchange, according to Briana Kelley–a training specialist for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office–who. spoke on the topic this week at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference.
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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