Incident Command/Situational Awareness

News

Commercial carriers commit to adopting technologies to improve 911 location accuracy

All four nationwide wireless carriers—AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint—will add device-based hybrid (DBH) location technologies that are designed to improve wireless emergency-caller location information, even within buildings, but public-safety officials expressed concerns about efforts surrounding vertical-location data.

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Motorola Solutions: Aaron Bravo highlights functionality within CommandCentral Aware platform

Aaron Bravo, a solutions advisor at Motorola Solutions, outlines key benefits of CommandCentral Aware, which is designed to let public-safety officials view—and perform analytics leveraging—information and video from multiple sources on a single platform.

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NICE: Patrick Botz highlights new features within company’s Inform 9 platform

Patrick Botz, director of engagement for NICE Public Safety, describes new features within Inform 9, the latest version of the company’s recording and digital-information-management platform that now integrates with computer-aided-dispatch (CAD) systems.

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Motorola Solutions: Bryon Wheaton demonstrates video capabilities from new Avigilon unit

Bryon Wheaton, sales engineering manager at Motorola Solutions, displays hardware and software offerings from Avigilon—the video-surveillance unit Motorola Solutions purchased earlier this year—including a demonstration of video-analytics capabilities.

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Newscan: The Capital Gazette reporters were under attack. So they used social media to report.

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AT&T must pay FCC $5.25 million, implement changes in settlement over two 911 outages last year

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.

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Avaya seeks to translate enterprise call-center success into 911 sector moving to NG911

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.

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PSCR: K.K. Ramakrishnan, Hulya Seferoglu demo incident-management, facial recognition solutions

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.

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Apple to utilize RapidSOS to deliver 911 caller-location information to PSAPs

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.

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Zetron announces improved 911 location results from RapidSOS pilot project in Tennessee

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

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Commercial carriers commit to adopting technologies to improve 911 location accuracy

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Motorola Solutions: Aaron Bravo highlights functionality within CommandCentral Aware platform

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NICE: Patrick Botz highlights new features within company’s Inform 9 platform

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Motorola Solutions: Bryon Wheaton demonstrates video capabilities from new Avigilon unit

News

Newscan: The Capital Gazette reporters were under attack. So they used social media to report.

News

AT&T must pay FCC $5.25 million, implement changes in settlement over two 911 outages last year

News

Avaya seeks to translate enterprise call-center success into 911 sector moving to NG911

Video

PSCR: K.K. Ramakrishnan, Hulya Seferoglu demo incident-management, facial recognition solutions

News

Apple to utilize RapidSOS to deliver 911 caller-location information to PSAPs

News

Zetron announces improved 911 location results from RapidSOS pilot project in Tennessee

Commentary

How satellite communications create a critical connectivity link for first responders

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U.S. sets up new open RAN group amid telecom slugfest with China

Events

IWCE’s In-Building Forum

Channel Evolution Europe

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

Twitter

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