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PG&E tests AI-enhanced cameras to combat California wildfires

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing machine learning-enhanced high-definition (HD) cameras to monitor wildfires. The company’s Wildfire Safety Operations Center (WSOC) has installed 138 new cameras as part of a network spanning high fire-threat districts. Of those 138 cameras, 46 are included in the new AI testing program using technology developed by Alchera, […]

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Ericsson’s $6.2 billion Vonage deal has befuddled investors – no wonder

Markets have been left bemused by Ericsson’s $6.2 billion takeover of Vonage at the start of the week. The Swedish firm’s share price fell by nearly 6% on the day the deal was announced, wiping about $2.6 billion off its market capitalization. That was obviously not the immediate reaction CEO Börje Ekholm would have wanted. […]

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MTA police leverages P25, LTE to maximize interoperable communications throughout jurisdiction

New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) police are communicating on a 700 MHz P25 Phase 2 system designed by L3Harris that has demonstrated automatic roaming with a Motorola Solutions P25 network in another state, as well as ongoing interoperability with LTE-based FirstNet users. John Vallarelli, the MTA Police Department captain who led the multiyear […]

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UL launches digital-security platform for IoT device makers

UL has launched a digital security framework for IoT device makers. Its SafeCyber Digital Security Platform seeks to measure development processes for their devices against industry best practices. It also encompasses a firmware check to probe for flaws, both before launch and once they’ve been released into other IoT networks. “The proliferation of connected devices […]

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Verizon survey: First responders ‘most dependent’ on smartphones—not LMR—on daily basis

Public safety currently depends slightly more on smartphones than land-mobile-radio (LMR) technology during a typical day, and this gap is expected to widen significantly in favor of smartphones and other broadband devices during the next five years, according to a national survey of first responders commissioned by Verizon Frontline. More than 3,000 people who “self-selected” […]

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Smart cities must learn to navigate frequency bottlenecks

Smart cities must seek to overcome congestion of existing radio frequencies to be successful and lost data packets are eroding smart city implementations as more end users crowd onto the two most popular frequencies for connections: 2.4 Ghz and 5Ghz. That’s according to Paul Russell, vice president for wireless products at engineering testing kit supplier […]

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UK investigation of Motorola Solutions expected to yield preliminary results in April

UK government market investigators are scheduled to publish in April a provisional decision about Motorola Solutions’ role in the Airwave public-safety TETRA network and issue a final report on the matter in June, according to an administrative timetable posted this week by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Based on this schedule, it appears that […]

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Isotropic, SES take multi-orbit satellite services to the test

The future of satellite services is not fixed at any one orbit. Some services are tailored for low-latency delivery at low-Earth orbit (LEO), others are beamed from medium-Earth orbit (MEO), and still others are sent down from geosynchronous (GEO) satellites that might reside more than 20,000 miles above the Big Blue Marble. Although some new […]

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Verizon, Amazon team on 5G services

Verizon Business plans to team with Amazon to utilize the online retailer’s low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network Project Kuiper, as backhaul to its 4G and 5G terrestrial services.The deal is intended to bring high-speed data network access to rural and remote communities in the U.S. Initially that would mean providing connectivity to Verizon 4G […]

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Local intelligence’s role in fully automated mobility

The path towards automated, autonomous mobility is complex to the extent that there is no single path to achieve it. However, this transition it is either viewed as an automaker initiative or as a technology disruptor. Location intelligence plays its part in this process. It entails the collation, analysis and distribution of geospatial data to […]

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PG&E tests AI-enhanced cameras to combat California wildfires

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Ericsson’s $6.2 billion Vonage deal has befuddled investors – no wonder

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MTA police leverages P25, LTE to maximize interoperable communications throughout jurisdiction

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UL launches digital-security platform for IoT device makers

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Verizon survey: First responders ‘most dependent’ on smartphones—not LMR—on daily basis

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Smart cities must learn to navigate frequency bottlenecks

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UK investigation of Motorola Solutions expected to yield preliminary results in April

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Isotropic, SES take multi-orbit satellite services to the test

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Verizon, Amazon team on 5G services

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Local intelligence’s role in fully automated mobility

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