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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

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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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

“Our entire edge strategy is based around what our customers actually need,” AT&T proclaimed in a recent blog post. The post was penned by Mo Katibeh, CMO of AT&T Business and champion of the company’s edge computing initiative. Katibeh told Light Reading recently that AT&T’s business customers have diverse needs, and that 5G edge compute is not […]

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Nokia: Fabricio Velez updates development on IMS-based NG911 approach

Fabricio Velez, global solutions architect for Nokia, explains how public-safety answering points (PSAPs) could leverage valuable data from the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that is part of wireless carriers’ core networks to deliver rich multimedia information—such as more accurate location of emergency callers—into the 911 system. Velez notes that this IMS approach should be viewed […]

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Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools

Jared VandenHeuvel, program coordinator at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), outlines the emergency scenarios that Winter Institute participants responded to during exercises conducted last week at Texas A&M University and the surrounding area. VandenHeuvel also discusses new communications tools and the need for different skill sets within response units to take advantage of […]

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Spanish carmaker promises V2X for new Leon model

Seat has promised to include the first mass-market application of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology in its new mid-segment Leon model. To be sold in hatchback and station wagon versions in the European market, the Spanish sub-brand of the Volkswagen Group hopes to draw on its on-street V2X experiments near its base in Barcelona carried out with domestic […]

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

Interest in edge computing continues to build, as does confusion surrounding the architecture. The situation is similar when it comes to artificial intelligence. The prospect of moving AI to the edge might sound like a recipe for even more confusion. Performing artificial intelligence at the edge is often “just theory quoted in articles,” said Martin […]

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Smart-city projects still driven by single-purpose IoT deployments

Smart city initiatives are underway across the country. But they face funding and technology challenges. Many cities want to upgrade infrastructure to improve resident experience, safety and to generate revenue. But modernization can be too costly without help from private companies. Only about 16% of cities can self-fund their infrastructure projects. That prompts some to join […]

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Shipping giant UPS to test private wireless network in Montana

UPS, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, is testing a significant private wireless network at its distribution center in Billings, Mont. Although details about the effort are scarce, the development yet again underscores the growing trend toward private wireless networks operated by enterprises, government agencies and others. Perhaps not surprisingly, the topic has generated […]

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City of Oakland turns to Motorola Solutions’ cloud-based disaster-recovery service for CAD

Oakland, Calif., has selected Motorola Solutions’ new cloud-based “Disaster Recovery as a Service” (DRaaS) solution as an alternative method to access the PremierOne CAD system in the event of an earthquake, wildfire or other incident that causes the on-premise infrastructure to be unavailable. City of Oakland CIO Andrew “Pete” Peterson said that he believes having […]

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Newscan: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Clearview AI: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it Deploying body-worn cameras in a county jail Tillamook County suffers cyberattack USGS conducts Delaware River surveys with autonomous underwater vehicle Drone helps hurt hiker rappel 400 feet during rescue AMA’s Tyler Dobbs on Remote ID […]

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How Las Vegas turns a smart-city pilot into a smart-city project

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AT&T customers explore use cases for edge computing

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Nokia: Fabricio Velez updates development on IMS-based NG911 approach

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Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools

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Spanish carmaker promises V2X for new Leon model

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Edge-computing benefits for AI crystallizing

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Smart-city projects still driven by single-purpose IoT deployments

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Shipping giant UPS to test private wireless network in Montana

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City of Oakland turns to Motorola Solutions’ cloud-based disaster-recovery service for CAD

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Newscan: The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it

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Real-Time Situational Awareness: Today’s Holy Grail

Vehicle routers serving as tip of the 5G spear for public safety

How California public agencies can reform pension benefits

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