Commentary Real-Time Situational Awareness: Today’s Holy Grail 25th February 2020 So, I have heard this expression before, but what does it really mean? Holy Grail: something that you want very much but that is very hard to get or achieve. Well, that seems about right, as “real-time situational awareness” or a “common operating picture” are goals that are often bandied about in public-safety and emergency-management […]
News 5G in IoT starts to crystallize in Industrial IoT market 24th February 2020 Much of the attention on 5G technology centers on a future of smarter phones, drones and self-driving cars. But 5G’s role in next-generation industrial IoT applications bears watching as well. While 5G may be one among many evolutionary steps, it is important in the development of new industrial IoT use cases. 5G connectivity, is the fifth […]
News Newscan: DHS says ransomware hit U.S. gas-pipeline operator 21st February 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations DHS says ransomware hit U.S. gas-pipeline operator Telecommunicators hope Kari’s Law will make calling 911 easier, faster FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of U.S. technology U.S. charges Huawei with racketeering, adding pressure on China U.S. charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets from six […]
News Federated Wireless teams with AWS, Microsoft on cloud-based CBRS offerings 20th February 2020 Federated Wireless this week announced a new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) private-network offering focused on Internet of Things (IoT) applications that will be delivered via marketplace platforms run by cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi stressed the importance of simplicity in the connectivity-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings that […]
Video TEEX: Warren ‘Country’ Weidler notes challenges integrating new technologies, dangers of autocorrect 20th February 2020 Warren “Country” Weidler, the search-and-rescue coordinator for Texas Task Force One and part of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), describes the recent cybersecurity-related response exercise conducted at the Winter Institute, where he led the incident-command post. With LMR radio unavailable under the scenario, chat messaging, pictures/video from drones and other communications methods were […]
Partner content The growing importance of safety-critical software in IoT 19th February 2020 The Internet of Things introduces new, sometimes unanticipated, safety risks. Safety-critical applications, of course, have relied on software for decades. The Apollo flight program John F. Kennedy launched in 1961, for instance, used onboard flight software. But the proliferation of connected devices in industrial environments has enabled a world in which software runs core processes […]
Partner content Russian wake-up call from winter autonomous-vehicle (AV) trials 18th February 2020 Global warming is doing its job on Moscow: in mid-December, there is very little frost or snow. Yet, it’s a high latitude winter with long nights and darkness that streetlights cannot fully illuminate. This is the background for the driverless Winter City competition. Five autonomous vehicles presenting different technical paradigms must accomplish the 31-mile route […]
News Manatee County (Fla.) selects RapidDeploy to provide cloud-based 911 tactical mapping, data analytics 18th February 2020 Manatee County, Fla., soon plans to install RapidDeploy’s cloud-based NG911 Bundle, which is expected to provide tactical-mapping and data-analytics capabilities to the county’s 911 emergency communications center. Funded with almost $100,000 from a state grant program designed to let public-safety answering points (PSAPs) procure next-generation 911 (NG911), the RapidDeploy Radius Plus platform being implemented in […]
Video PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform 17th February 2020 Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]
Partner content Smart-building energy-management systems yield cost savings 16th February 2020 One of the biggest challenges for commercial building owners and managers is how to reduce energy consumption and save money. Indeed, almost 40% of energy consumed in the U.S. powers commercial and residential buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But enabling smart technologies and real-time energy management systems can reduce costs by an average […]
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