Audio Mission Critical Partners: Kevin Murray discusses acquisitions, vision for 911 future 14th February 2020 Mission Critical Partners (MCP) CEO Kevin Murray talks about the consulting firm’s three acquisitions during the past 18 months, as well as how the additional expertise is designed to better position MCP to help advise 911 centers making the transition from voice-only operations to workflows that also integrate mulitimedia, including data and video.
Video Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities 12th February 2020 Lt. Jared Reinhardt of the Texas Military Department provides a tour of the organization’s deployable command vehicles, which support multiband LMR, cellular broadband, satellite backhaul and bridging technologies that are designed to enable interoperability between disparate systems. Reinhardt spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise conducted at the RELLIS campus […]
Partner content Inseego working on CommScope partnership for private LTE networks 12th February 2020 Inseego is in the midst of testing how its products can work with products from CommScope, with an eye toward putting the two together in order to sell them to enterprises that want to build their own private wireless LTE networks. “Inseego is a cellular radio equipment (modem/gateway/router) provider, and is seeking to partner with […]
News Newscan: Law enforcement is now buying cellphone-location data from marketers 11th February 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Law enforcement is now buying cellphone-location data from marketers Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying. Racine’s cyberattacker still a mystery, but FBI says Oshkosh’s ransomware came from Russia FBI document reveals local and state police are collecting intelligence to expand terrorism watch list […]
Partner content Is gateway-less the future of IoT deployments? 10th February 2020 When you think about connected devices examples immediately come to mind. Whether it’s a car, a door sensor or a medical device, each connects and processes data differently. Some iterations are smarter than others. A camera can connect to a Wi-Fi access point and send data directly to the cloud. A door sensor is simpler. […]
Video Texas A&M: Jan Dufek showcases mobile-lab capabilities in support of drones, robots 9th February 2020 Jan Dufek, a graduate assistant at Texas A&M University, provides a virtual tour highlighting the capabilities of the Texas A&M Experiment Station (TEES) mobile lab—including the processing of pictures and videos on site—that supports the deployments of drones and robots in the air, on the ground, and in the water. Dufek spoke with IWCE’s Urgent […]
Video Florida State: David Merrick describes public-safety drone uses, challenges 9th February 2020 David Merrick of Florida State University explains how drones can be used to provide video and pictures that enhance situational awareness during a response effort, as well as some of the practical and connectivity limitations that must be considered when deploying drones. Merrick spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise […]
News Newscan: Facial recognition scrutinized in U.S., United Kingdom 7th February 2020 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Google, YouTube and Venmo send cease-and-desist letters to facial-recognition app that helps law enforcement Spotlight: Ed Parkinson Apple and FBI at odds over terrorist’s cellphones British police will use facial recognition, critics say it’s a massive expansion of surveillance MP vows to call in UK Home Office over […]
News Real-time location systems: A moving target for IoT 6th February 2020 During the first e-commerce era, package location tracking arose as a showcase application. In 1994, FedEx.com’s success making such tracking information available online showed what the web could do, and it quickly got wide attention. Today, GPS-oriented tracking systems such as Amazon and Uber have again redefined users’ expectations for efficient fleet systems. Internet of […]
News How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project 6th February 2020 Managing cities like Las Vegas takes discipline and vision. The city proper has a population of more than 600,000 and the larger Las Vegas metropolitan area has a population of more than 2 million, there is much to manage in the city environs, from public transportation to parking and traffic as well as streetlights and […]
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