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November 2017

November 20, 2017

Samsung Features Blueforce for Coordinated Emergency Response

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Interoperability, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Recent terrorist attacks and active shooter incidents have shared a common similarity: 100's of armed responders from many agencies descending on the scene to help neutralize the situation. With that comes not only a radio interoperability problem, but a command interoperability problem.  Reaction time is critical during an asymmetric incident. Split second decisions are required and traditional methods of pushing decision data to higher echelons...

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November 19, 2017

The Blueforce Connected Firearm Solution

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, IoT, Law Enforcement, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

When law enforcement responds to a scene, they face a large number of unknowns.  A scene that initially seems calm, can quickly escalate to one of extreme violence.  Those seconds where escalation begins can be of extreme importance to other responding units.  What has been missing, until now, is a connected solution that leverages telemetry data from firearms, combined with tactical edge information sharing, to...

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