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Video-streaming service from KSI Data Sciences designed to enhance public-safety situational awareness

Drones and robots increasingly are being used to gather reconnaissance video to improve response efforts, but the footage often has been available only to personnel near the drone pilot without considerable delay. FirstNet hopes to address this problem with MissionKeeper from KSI Data Sciences, a cloud-based platform that supports near-real-time streaming of video that can […]

New technologies drive code advancements for in-building public-safety communications

In-building coverage is a significant challenge for first-responder emergency communications, according to an International Fire Chiefs Association report based on a Safer Buildings Coalition survey conducted in 2018. According to the report, 98% of emergency responders said that they were having problems with their communication because of dead spots in a building, while 56% said […]

AT&T adds secure messaging, drone-video-streaming capabilities to FirstNet

FirstNet subscribers will have access to new secure-messaging and video-streaming functionalities that can be used to support their first-responder missions, according to AT&T, which is building the nationwide public-safety broadband network through a contract with the FirstNet Authority. In conjunction with the unveiling of a collaboration with Motorola Solutions to develop a second mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) […]

AT&T, Motorola collaborate on second MCPTT offering for FirstNet

FirstNet subscribers should have a choice of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) services this winter, when a new offering from Motorola Solutions is expected to be available following a collaborative development effort with AT&T, the contractor building the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). Scott Agnew, AT&T’s assistant vice president for FirstNet products, said that Motorola Solutions was […]

FirstNet tops 2.5 million connections and 17,000 agencies, AT&T exec says

FirstNet continued its steady subscriber growth during the first half of the year, supporting more than 17,000 public-safety agencies with more than 2.5 million connections, according to an executive from AT&T, the contractor building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). AT&T Communications CEO Jeff McElfresh provided the updated FirstNet-adoption metrics today, which represent […]
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