Video BuildingDNA: Joe Hernandez demonstrates how company’s in-building intelligence solution benefits public safety, enterprises 15th August 2017 BuildingDNA CEO Joe Hernandez demonstrates the company’s smart-building solution that can leverage intrabuilding-visual-awareness (IVA) technology to deliver relevant data about personnel and equipment assets inside and outside a building structure to enhance public safety’s situational awareness when an incident occurs. The solution also is used on a daily basis to help personnel identify potential maintenance needs within a building.
Commentary The power of visualization technology for public safety 1st August 2017 Humans process visual communications significantly faster than text. In a public-safety environment, where seconds of reaction time are critical, leveraging visual communications effectively promises to have a huge impact on first responders and the citizens they protect.
Commentary FirstNet opportunities—and challenges 13th July 2017 As states and territories make their “opt-in/opt-out” decisions regarding FirstNet, here are three key areas that should be considered.
News FirstNet officials reiterate MCPTT plans for March 2019, hope to accelerate firefighter-location solutions 29th June 2017 FirstNet staff present board members with a new roadmap for the organization that includes a technological commitment to support mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) technology across the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) by March 2019.
News PSCR awards $38.5 million in public-safety-communications research grants 13th June 2017 Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) announces that $38.5 million in grants have been awarded to fund 33 research-and-development projects that are designed to help determine future possibilities in a variety of first-responder communications technologies.
News Redl discusses FirstNet, spectrum sharing during nomination hearing for NTIA post 9th June 2017 David Redl, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), pledged during his nomination hearing to maximize use of federal-government spectrum and help ensure a successful FirstNet deployment, if he is confirmed to serve in the post.
Video Huawei: Nermin Mohamed highlights features of company’s end-to-end networking approach 2nd June 2017 Nermin Mohamed, Huawei’s vice president of solutions and marketing, explains how Huawei leverages myriad networking technologies to provide operators with an overall solution that is designed to maximize performance, reliability and flexibility.
Video Huawei: Nermin Mohamed outlines how SDN and NFV can benefit public-safety communications 24th May 2017 Nermin Mohamed, Huawei’s vice president of solutions and marketing, explains how the use of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) within modern-day broadband wireless system can enhance functionality, provisioning and reliability on mission-critical networks.
News AT&T CEO expects accelerated FirstNet buildout, promises hardening, ‘ruthless preemption’ for public safety 23rd May 2017 AT&T expects to deploy the Band 14 FirstNet public-safety LTE network “much quicker” than the five-year schedule included in the request for proposals (RFP), and first-responder subscribers will have “ruthless preemption” access rights on the system, according to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.
Video Motorola Solutions: Mark Krizik demonstrates personnel-accountability solution for firefighters on trunked systems 16th April 2017 Mark Krizik, fire market sales specialist for Motorola Solutions, demonstrates the company’s personnel-accountability solution, which is designed primarily to meet the needs of fire-department customers when responding to an incident. Previously available for users with conventional radio systems, the solution now also works with trunked radio systems.
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 3 24th March 2024
Video Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023 Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit
