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AskRail: Charles Werner, Forrest Wieder highlight features of hazardous-materials app for rail cargo

Former fire chief Charles Werner and Forrest Wieder, general manager of the Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC), outline the benefits of AskRail, a digital application that can be used to quickly identify which railroad cars contain hazardous materials–information that can have a significant impact on the strategies used by public safety and others […]
Catalyst wins DHS contract to develop internetworking for MCPTT-LMR communications

Catalyst wins DHS contract to develop internetworking for MCPTT-LMR communications

Catalyst Communications today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company with a contract worth as much as $1 million to develop an interworking solution between LMR and 3GPP-standard mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) offerings that could be commercially available next year. Catalyst President Robin Grier said that the company’s solution would be […]
Newscan: Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for two weeks

Newscan: Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for two weeks

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for two weeks Crippling ransomware attacks targeting U.S. cities continue to increase States turn to drones to predict avalanches, spot wildfire Russian government hackers targeted small county in Florida panhandle in 2016 NYPD tampered with facial-recognition results, researchers […]

Smart-cities infrastructure helps San Diego deliver ‘mundane’ services more efficiently—and changes the life of a capital-crime suspect

Smart streetlights equipped with cameras and microphones help the city of San Diego better understand traffic patterns throughout the city, but the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure also has proven useful to law enforcement, preventing a wrongful prosecution a capital offense, according to a city official. Much of the promise of smart-cities and IoT initiatives […]

Itron: Philip Mezey explains how company’s IoT ecosystem helps utilities, smart cities and public safety be more resilient, efficient

Itron President and CEO Philip Mezey discusses the company’s experience leveraging connected meters, sensors and streetlights to provide utilities and smart cities with insightful, secure data that is designed to promote network resilience, efficient responses and preventative actions before problems occur. These open-platform data points also can be used to accelerate response efforts by utilities […]

Monetti & Associates: Gary Monetti talks about the intersection of IoT and aerospace

Gary Monetti, founder and managing director of Monetti & Associates consulting and engineering, talks about the recognition of a potential intersection between satellite services—particularly with the implementation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations—and the Internet of Things (IoT) industry that is seeking connectivity solutions for sensors that may be located outside the coverage range of […]

Updated: Motorola Solutions ‘chomping at the bit’ to complete contract worth more than $600 million for statewide Florida system that needs to be operational in June 2021

[Editor’s note: This story was updated on Friday evening to include additional information from Motorola Solutions about the following items: Florida state agencies will have to pay for the P25 radios for their personnel that use the system, and that a P25 radio from any vendor could work on the proposed statewide system. Earlier in […]
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