No matter what the public safety networks look like in 20 years, they are sure to have core capabilities grounded in location-based services. A critical component of any successful rescue operation is time. Decision cycle time can be optimized by having the precise location of buildings, core services, emergency service resources, and disaster relief sites. This information is critical to disaster relief teams and public...
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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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The last 18 months have yielded unprecedented disruption to businesses, with retailers in particular experiencing a vastly changed consumer buying environment. Consumers have become quite comfortable with buying online, requiring retailers to now reimagine the customer experience. Experiences that focus on building "relationship" which is now as important as "transaction". Critical to becoming customer-obsessed and reigniting growth, is technology and data which fuel intelligent outcomes...
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Ask any soldier or first responder and they will tell you of the importance of shared tactical video for decision-making during edge operations. Drones can now be cued to launch in real-time for overwatch. Military working dogs routinely carry low light infrared imagers that enable off-leash shared awareness for what the dog sees even though he is 200 meters forward. Video is core to intelligence...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 7 We sat down with Nick Nilan, a telecommunications industry veteran who currently serves as a Director of Product Development for Public Sector at Verizon to discuss system interoperability and network slicing. To learn more about Verizon Frontline, visit them at: Verizon Frontline. ...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 6 We sat down with Allison Kahn, electronics engineer and project lead for the National Institute of Standards Public Safety Communications Research Division to discuss automated stream analysis for public safety and the need for more real-time analysis within public safety. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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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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Ask anyone who has responded to a natural or manmade disaster and they will tell you, these events create the mother of all non-predictive inter-agency mashups. The multitude of agencies responding from outside of the incident area creates a need for hyperlocal services that assist in navigation, but also enable the finding and discovery of resources in the affected area of operation that can be...
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The origins of the Blueforce platform began with a singular and simple mission set: Enable warfighters and first responders to leverage their mobile compute devices to quickly form secure human workgroups in order to respond to a rapidly evolving incident. Blueforce delivered this in 2012 in the form of BlueforceTACTICAL for Android which enabled self-synchronization of location, shared ground intelligence, and the fusion and movement...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 5 We sat down with Bryce Stirton Co-Founder and President at Responder Corp to learn about the R2 network that connects first responders and leading technology innovators to build solutions for the future. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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It's that time of year. Every fire season, millions of acres across the world burn during wildland fire events. Worse, between 2000 - 2019 alone, more than 400 wildland firefighters lost their lives fighting these fires while protecting civilians, homes, and forests. While the hazards faced on the fire line can include burnovers/entrapments, heat-related illnesses and injuries, smoke inhalation, vehicle-related injuries (including aircraft), slips, trips,...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 5 We sat down with Bryce Stirton Co-Founder and President at Responder Corp to learn about the R2 network that connects first responders and leading technology innovators to build solutions for the future. To learn more about the R2 Network, visit them at: r2network.com ...
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