The first 72 hours after a natural/manmade disaster are critical hours that make or break the speed of recovery. Power is gone. Terrestrial communications are denied if available at all. Worse, a nonpredictive inter-agency mash-up is about to hit and with it comes an interoperability nightmare. The ability to positively impact recovery requires communications and the rapid standup of mobile command in denied, disparate, and...
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New edge-based stream analytics tool that delivers gender and age group recognitional support for a wide array of IoT and content orchestration applications for public safety, smart cities, and retail Blueforce Development Corporation, a leader in edge-based IoT sensor fusion, cueing, and autonomous orchestration today launched Blueforce Demographics Plugin, a composable service that delivers ultra-low latency gender and age group identification for use alongside of other...
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SPOKANE, WASHINGTON – JUNE 2, 2022 – Unifire, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mission Ready Solutions Inc. (“Mission Ready“) (TSX Venture: MRS) (OTCQX: MSNVF), proudly announces that it has secured terms with Blueforce Development Corporation (Blueforce) for their turnkey solutions, including IoT/sensors communication platform, through a distribution agreement for the United States, Canada and Latin America. Blueforce’s edge-based situational awareness solutions deliver real-time actionable insight to...
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Complex emergency management is fundamentally a lesson in organized chaos where accountability is a core foundational element of shared situational awareness. Knowing where to find what you need can be as chaotic given that response assets — the vehicles, equipment, autonomous platforms — are rarely in one place and scattered throughout an area of operation. Asset inventory coupled with resources and capability on a "single...
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Battlefield, disaster response, and public safety sustainment is both an art and science; it’s about synchronizing, integrating, and transporting commodities in a highly “just-in-time†manner to provide maneuver and incident commanders with freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolonged endurance. As it turns out, the “science†of sustainment is not terribly difficult as it is grounded in basic math and computation, based on real-time...
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For decades now, public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems have provided a reliable, albeit geographically limited, communications backbone and baseline for related command and control systems for public safety agencies. These legacy LMR systems are often limited to the geographic areas of the agency/agencies being served and, in many cases, there may be multiple public safety LMR systems in the same geographic area using...
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The intelligence community has been warning for some time about “home made†explosive and chemical weapons, many of which can be fashioned from materials bought at Home Depot or the local pool supply store. Fast forward to Saturday March 14, 2015 when leaders in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq provided the Reuters news organization with soil and clothing samples taken by the peshmerga from...
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Much like military conflict, manmade and natural disasters present similar challenges of uncertainty, complexity and variability. These time-constrained and chaotic decision environments require rapid adaptation and an ability to pivot quickly to changes in the environment. The complexity of the event, coupled with time compressed decision space and the severity of the potential consequences, creates conditions that are unforgiving of error. Given the austere and...
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The relationship between weather and emergency management (not to mention emergency preparedness) is fundamental and can be quite complicated. Weather causes many of the disasters that require an emergency response, yet awareness of conditions is essential for management of incidents unrelated to weather as the cause. For sure, meteorological awareness can have a profound effect managing the extent of destruction to life and property to...
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Crisis negotiation and de-escalation are law enforcement techniques used to communicate with people who are threatening violence (workplace violence, domestic violence, suicide, or terrorism) and can include barricaded subjects, stalkers, criminals attempting to escape after a botched robbery, and hostage-takers. While basic voice communications are of extreme value, understanding what is going on when the negotiator and subject are not on the phone enables better...
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The 2022 Blueforce Texas Road Show gives you hands-on access to the latest in Public Safety, Safe Campus, and Autonomous Platform technologies. The Road Show kicks off Tuesday October 11, 2022 in Houston. For more information, click here…
