Partner content Connectivity to prevent highway pileups 29th April 2020 Cranfield University researchers in the UK are participating in a Multi-Car Collision Avoidance (MuCCA) research and development project. This project which aims to reduce the number of motorway pile-ups involving a number of vehicles. The university says the project is examining how to prevent or reduce multi-vehicle collisions with artificial intelligence (AI) and V2V communication […]
News NICE provides free Xpress digital-evidence platform to public safety during COVID-19 pandemic 29th April 2020 NICE recently announced that its Investigate Xpress digital-evidence-management platform is available at no cost to public-safety entities wanting to gather and process evidence this year without the need for face-to-face interaction—a key characteristic in a period of social-distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Botz, director of global marketing for NICE, said this offering provides […]
News Newscan: Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine? 29th April 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Would you sacrifice your privacy to get out of quarantine? In Jackson, Mississippi, AI-powered cough bots and COVID-19 maps fuel response Social-distancing-detecting ‘pandemic drones’ dumped over privacy concerns Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years AT&T slams FCC’s plans for 6 GHz band Elon Musk says […]
Partner content Why industrial-automation security should be a renewed focus 28th April 2020 As industrial organizations grapple with COVID-19 fallout, automation has become an even hotter topic. Experts fear, however, that the acceleration of automation could drive unforeseen consequences for organizations that don’t focus on security. “When it comes to automation and industrial control systems (ICS), there is no doubt haste makes more than waste,” said Dan Miklovic, […]
Partner content With connected cars, zero trust is the best security advice 26th April 2020 The road to fully autonomous vehicles has many obstacles but perhaps none more insidious than hacking. Cybersecurity experts say improvements have been made but there’s much work to be done to secure vehicles before and during production as well as years later once they’re on the road. McAfee recently made headlines by hacking a Tesla […]
Partner content Return on 5G infrastructure investment remains a puzzle 23rd April 2020 Despite the initial optimism surrounding 5G, achieving return on investment on the technology remains uncertain for telecommunications operators. As a result, the prospect that t5G connectivity will spur a flurry of novel IoT applications will almost certainly be delayed. While deployments are steadily increasing, so are telcos’ costs. Although increasing cellular traffic underscores the need for […]
Partner content Technology goes viral: Local governments use tech to help communities weather COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing 23rd April 2020 Around March 13 is when Suffield, Ct., First Selectman Melissa Mack estimates that she “saw the writing on the wall” with the coronavirus’s spread. The town’s chief executive witnessed the virus spreading in nearby New York City and Fairfield County, Ct., and she surmised it would soon get to her community in the state’s north-central […]
News School of hard knocks: 911 operations in the COVID-19 era 23rd April 2020 Boxer and pop philosopher Mike Tyson once opined that “everyone has a plan—until they get punched in the mouth.” Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has punched the public-safety/emergency-response community squarely in the mouth—and hard. But the community’s resiliency and creativity is enabling it to fight back equally hard, and the lessons being learned through the […]
News FCC plans vote on Anterix proposal for 900 MHz private LTE for utilities, enterprises 22nd April 2020 FCC commissioners next month are expected to approve rules that would let Anterix transition its narrowband LMR spectrum in the 900 MHz band to a contiguous block of private LTE airwaves designed to support mission-critical broadband applications for utilities and other enterprises. For Anterix—known as pdvWireless until the company changed its name last June—the FCC […]
News Newscan: After the deaths of 13 EMS workers, coronavirus is forcing some N.J. squads to drop service 21st April 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations After the deaths of 13 EMS workers, coronavirus is forcing some N.J. squads to drop service ‘A very scary idea’: How Google and Apple’s COVID-19 tracing could turn sick people into pariahs How an FCC ruling on Ligado request could harm military and civilian communications Advocates condemn FCC’s […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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