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Motorola Solutions: Ryan Seick highlights features of new Intelligent Data Portal (IDP) platform

Ryan Seick, Motorola Solutions’ product manager and lead applications manager for public-safety devices, details the attributes of the company’s Intelligent Data Portal (IDP) platform, a browser-based solutions that is designed to leverage relevant information from myriad databases quicklyin an intuitive format.

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Making NextGen 9-1-1 a reality today

Transitioning legacy analog 9-1-1 systems is one of the most important initiatives that the public-safety community has ever attempted. The path forward involves significant new ideas, processes and technologies, but the benefits of NextGen 9-1-1 certainly justify the effort.

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Newscan: NYC mayor puts troubled 911 upgrade on hold for probe of budget, schedule delays

Web RoundupItems from other news organizations NYC mayor puts troubled 911 upgrade on hold for probe of budget, schedule delays Text-to-911 service now available in Indiana The FirstNet air force: Drones could help cover ‘every square meter’ AT&T to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion Wireless carriers again avoid strict rule against blocking apps Tablets proliferate […]

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Getting accurate location information for indoor wireless 911 must be a priority

Whether the details of the FCC proposal on indoor location accuracy for 911 can be executed is questionable, but there is no debate that the need for such rules is needed; in fact, it is long overdue.

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FirstNet board member Charles Dowd reportedly will retire from NYPD

FirstNet board member Charles Dowd reportedly has submitted paperwork to retire from the New York Police Department (NYPD), but the longtime public-safety official will continue to serve on the FirstNet board.

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PSAPs learning from early text-to-911 deployments

As the four nationwide wireless carriers fulfill their commitments to provide text-to-911 functionality to any public-safety answering points (PSAPs) that are prepared to receive texts, some PSAPs already have taken strides to implement texting into their daily operations.

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Why this week’s FCC meeting matters to publc safety

Despite their consumer-oriented nature, two items on the upcoming FCC agenda regarding the 600 MHz incentive auction and net-neutrality rules are worthy of public safety’s attention.

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Need for PSAP quality-assurance processes will rise with next-generation 911

Many public-safety answering points (PSAPs) have yet to adopt a formal quality-assurance (QA) program, according to the results of a survey administered during a recent Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) webinar.However, the quality-assurance processes will rise as next-generation 911 is deployed, according to one speaker.

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FirstNet’s Kennedy talks about RFP process, 911 collaboration

FirstNet is completing request-for-proposal (RFP) processes, plans to seek public comments on some of the organization’s rules and legal interpretations, and plans to collaborate with the 911 community, according to FirstNet Deputy General Manager TJ Kennedy.

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Wisconsin 911 dispatcher uses text-messaging system to help first responders provide aid in Tennessee

A text-messaging system implemented by the 911 center in the city of Middleton, Wis., inadvertently allowed a Middleton dispatcher to help responders in Manchester, Tenn., address a plea for help from an 18-year-old boy regarding his mother.

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Motorola Solutions: Ryan Seick highlights features of new Intelligent Data Portal (IDP) platform

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Making NextGen 9-1-1 a reality today

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Newscan: NYC mayor puts troubled 911 upgrade on hold for probe of budget, schedule delays

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Getting accurate location information for indoor wireless 911 must be a priority

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FirstNet board member Charles Dowd reportedly will retire from NYPD

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PSAPs learning from early text-to-911 deployments

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Why this week’s FCC meeting matters to publc safety

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Need for PSAP quality-assurance processes will rise with next-generation 911

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FirstNet’s Kennedy talks about RFP process, 911 collaboration

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Wisconsin 911 dispatcher uses text-messaging system to help first responders provide aid in Tennessee

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