Video Rave Mobile Safety: Todd Piett highlights functionality of new Smart911 Location module 3rd July 2015 Todd Piett, Rave Mobile Safety’s chief product officer, explains how the company’s new Smart911 Location solution leverages commercial location data from assets like Wi-Fi access points can help PSAPs more accurately identify where first responders can find an emergency caller.
Video Motorola Solutions: Brian Long highlights virtualization benefits in latest release of PremierOne CAD system 30th June 2015 Brian Long, senior solutions specialist at Motorola Solutions, outlines the benefits that virtualization brings to dispatch customers that migrate to the new PremierOne 4.0 platform, including scalability and accelerated disaster-recovery processes, during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the NENA 2015 Conference & Expo in Denver.
News Rave Mobile Safety unveils 911 location-accuracy solution for wireless callers indoors, outdoors 29th June 2015 DENVER—Rave Mobile Safety announces the “controlled release” of Smart911Location, a new feature of the company’s Smart911 platform that leverages information from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other commercial infrastructure to provide enhanced location accuracy when 911 is contacted via a wireless device.
News Intrado, GIS Data Resources map almost 5 million GIS address points for New York State 24th June 2015 Late last year marked the completion of one of the largest address-point mapping projects in the United States. Covering 54,000 square miles, Intrado and GIS Data Resources (GDR) were tasked with creating new address points, as well as standardizing, validating and enhancing the location accuracy of existing address points across New York State.
Video Intrado: Scott Luallin, John Martyn highlight capabilities of Location Performance Management tool 22nd June 2015 Scott Luallin (left) and John Martyn, systems architects for Intrado, outline the capabilities of Intrado’s Location Performance Management (LPM) tool, which can be used to drive location accuracy and provide a methods to help users and network operators measure system performance levels at locations throughout the network territory.
News Senate committee rethinking options to extend positive-train-control (PTC) deadline in wake of Amtrak crash 11th June 2015 Senate Commerce Committee members express concern about delays in the implementation of positive train control (PTC) technology, questioning whether extending the Dec. 31 deadline this year for implementation is the best path to improve railroad safety.
Actiance: Kailash Ambwani unveils compliance capabilities of new Actiance Trusted Communities offering 11th June 2015 Actiance CEO Kailash Ambwani highlights the features of the new Actiance Trusted Communities platform, which enables secure, authenticated communications between enterprises while ensuring that compliance policies—important factors in the financial, healthcare and government sectors—are not compromised.
Video Intrado, IBM: Location-based services, broadband console promising for public safety, FirstNet 6th June 2015 Kevin Coyne and Joe Hernandez of Intrado—as well as David Jenkins of IBM—demonstrate next-generation public-safety communications capabilities on a proof-of-concept broadband console that leverages location-based service offerings and technologies from the two companies.
Intrado: John Snapp discusses the potential dangers, benefits of 911 mobile applications 4th June 2015 John Snapp, senior technical officer for Intrado, outlines the potential benefits–and dangers–associated with mobile applications for 911. In fact, Snapp says next-generation location applications are “the biggest change for enabling 911 since wireless first came out.”
News Novatel Wireless hopes strategic buys will help it accelerate Internet of Things (IoT) growth 2nd June 2015 Novatel Wireless is seeking strategic acquisitions to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio in a manner that will let the company help unlock the massive potential in the IoT space that has not been realized to date, according to a Novatel Wireless official.
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