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Newscan: ‘Spending like the Jetsons, living like the Flintstones’—the trouble with smart-city 5G

Newscan: ‘Spending like the Jetsons, living like the Flintstones’—the trouble with smart-city 5G

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ‘Spending like the Jetsons, living like the Flintstones’—the trouble with smart-city 5G Senator blasts Amazon’s Ring doorbell as an ‘open door for privacy and civil-liberty violations’ Louisiana state government hit by ransomware attacks forcing server shutdowns New Jersey school district delays opening Monday after ransomware attacks FCC blocks […]
Group announces successful test of multi-vendor MCPTT call with end-to-end security

Group announces successful test of multi-vendor MCPTT call with end-to-end security

Secure voice communications can be delivered using 3GPP’s mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard across solutions provided by multiple vendors, according to tests recently announced by Bittium, Athonet, Nemergent and the Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) project. Fidel Liberal, coordinator for MCOP, said the testing—conducted this fall at the ETSI MCX plugtests event in Finland—is a big step […]

Pyramid Consulting Services: Terry Burnworth outlines 911 information-overload challenges, previews Dec. 11 webinar

Terry Burnworth, president of Pyramid Consulting Services, explains the challenges that 911 centers–particularly smaller centers in rural areas–face as 911 transitions from a voice-centric operation to one that needs to process data, photos and video from a variety of sources, including IoT sensors, surveillance cameras and witnesses at an incident scene. On Dec. 11 at […]

Asylon: Michael Quiroga demonstrates automated battery-exchange system for company’s drones

Michael Quiroga, Asylon’s chief revenue officer, demonstrates how the company’s autonomous drone service includes an automated battery-swap capability that allows Asylon drones to spend more time in the air. Quiroga spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson last week during the Operation Convergent Response (OCR) 2019 event in Perry, Ga., that was co-sponsored by […]

Qwake Technologies: Bryce Stirton of Responder Corp explains how C-THRU technology can help firefighters navigate smoky rooms

Bryce Stirton, co-founder and president of Responder Corp, explains how Qwake’s C-THRU augmented-reality (AR) technology is designed to help firefighters navigate safely in smoke-filled environments. Qwake Technologies officials hope to bring this technology to market as early as 2020. Stirton spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson last week during the Operation Convergent Response […]

FCC adopts new rules for Z-axis vertical location of wireless 911 callers, but critics question their practical use

FCC commissioners yesterday voted to approve rules requiring wireless carriers to deliver 911 callers’ vertical location that is accurate within three meters in most cases, but critics expressed concern that the location information will not be provided in a manner that is useful to public safety. Under the new order, vertical—or Z-axis—80% of indoor wireless […]

ZeroEyes: Kieran Carroll outlines capabilities of weapons-detection system built on existing cameras, AI

Kieran Carroll, vice president of operations and government affairs for ZeroEyes, explains how the ZeroEyes is able to leverage existing camera system and the company’s artificial-intelligence-driven solution to identify firearms and immediately alert key personnel of a potential threat before bullets are shot. Carroll spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson yesterday during the […]

SES: Brady Spenrath highlights features of company’s MEO satellite that delivers higher speeds, lower latency

Brady Spenrath, senior specialist for SES, explains how the SES middle-earth-orbit (MEO) satellites are able to provide users with greater data throughput speeds and lower latency than traditional geosynchronous-earth-orbit (GEO) satellites, which are more than four times farther away from the earth than MEO satellites. For entities wanting additional reliability, SES can provide service that […]
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