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May 2, 2020

Technology to Manage Any Crisis: Zebra Partners with Blueforce for COVID-19 Response

by Blueforce
in AI, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fire, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

To help first responders handle the worldwide spread of COVID-19, Blueforce Development and Zebra have partnered closely to offer a situational awareness platform that can be rapidly deployed by law enforcement agencies. Blueforce provides an easy-to-use subscriber interface to securely connect with people, sensors, and AI services in seconds, using Zebra rugged mobile devices to capture data and remain connected in critical environments. Utilizing the...

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April 26, 2020

BlueforceMOBILE-CP: An All-in-One Mobile Command Post Solution for Crisis and Incident Command Operations

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Medical, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

It’s the same kit we have deployed for more than 10 years for border counter-terrorism joint task forces. A kit that is airline checkable (46 lbs; 32" L x 20" W x 9" H) and provides communications, sensor fusion, and a distributed common operating picture that crosses domains, agencies, and networks. More importantly, a kit that isn’t confined to a single vehicle and can be...

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April 13, 2020

Blueforce eBook: The Coming COVID-19 Second Wave Workplace Environment

by Blueforce
in Uncategorized

It would be an understatement to say that pandemics aren’t the norm for today's crisis managers. While we have trained and prepared for years on man made mass casualty scenarios (which have included training scenarios built on nation state actors initiating biological attacks), who would have thought a previously unknown virus would emerge from a wet market in Asia, and then one that could be...

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March 29, 2020

Electronic Medical Counter-Measures for Disease Mitigation and Containment

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, COVID-19, Edge, IoT, Machine Learning, Medical, Stream Analytics

The Pandemic Response Hackathon to hack COVID-19 started this past Friday at 1600P EDT and continues through the weekend. The Pandemic Response Hackathon is a virtual hackathon aimed at better understanding and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics. The goal of the hackathon is to bring public health professionals alongside the technology community’s talent to contribute to the world’s response to the pandemic....

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COVID-19 Exposure App

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, autonomous agents, CBRN, COVID-19, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Location, Medical, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

The Pandemic Response Hackathon to hack COVID-19 started this past Friday at 1600P EDT and continues through the weekend. The Pandemic Response Hackathon is a virtual hackathon aimed at better understanding and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics. The goal of the hackathon is to bring public health professionals alongside the technology community’s talent to contribute to the world’s response to the pandemic....

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March 19, 2020

COVID-19: Decon Procedures for Kyocera DuraForce PRO 2

by Blueforce
in Uncategorized

Blueforce has been a huge proponent of the Kyocera DurForce PRO2 for years now because of the military-grade ruggedness and resilience, but also it's immense utility for hazardous environments. The device boasts IP68 waterproof and dust proof certification (to 2m/6.5ft deep for up to 30 minutes) and Military Standard 810G for protection against shock, vibration, temperature extremes, blowing rain, low pressure, solar radiation,...

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January 4, 2020

Blueforce announces WOWZA Streaming Plugin for BlueforceTACTICAL

by Blueforce
in Uncategorized

One mobile device for location, sensor fusion, collaboration, and now mobile video streaming. If you have followed our social long enough, you know that we are totally focused on REAL-TIME situational awareness. We wake up at night thinking about new forms of relevant information we can share amongst responders, but also their commanders, which changes the life safety and operational efficiency equation. Let's protect our responders...

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July 22, 2019

Verizon 5G: Intelligent and Accelerated Speed of Command for Military and Public Safety

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

It has been called many names: distributed cloud, fog computing, and 4th generation data center, but with the impending mass deployment of 5G a variant of distributed cloud is more commonly referred to as "multi-access edge computing" or "MEC". The idea behind MEC is to deliver compute, bandwidth, and micro services much closer to the end user and IoT devices for faster and more informed...

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July 19, 2019

Squishy Robotics Teams with Blueforce

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Dashboard, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, M2M, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Squishy Robotics and Blueforce Development Corporation are working to integrate our technologies to provide an improved user interface (UI) experience for our customers by enabling the data obtained from Squishy Robots to be displayed and shared on the Blueforce software platform. Blueforce, which is based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, provides advanced sensor fusion/data sharing capabilities for enhanced tactical decision support and situational awareness. At present, the Squishy...

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June 2, 2019

Rapid Incident Adaptation through Real-time Discovery Services

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness

Announcing Blueforce Discovery Services V2 plugin for BlueforceEDGE The movie Jurassic Park features an enjoyable scene where Ian Malcom (played by Jeff Goldblum) attempts to explain chaos theory to Dr. Sattler (played by Laura Dern) where he drops a bead of water onto Sattler’s knuckle and shares how “tiny variations, the orientation of hairs on your hand, the amount of blood distending your vessels vastly affects...

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March 23, 2019

Blueforce Intelligent Edge Solutions for Sensitive Site Exploitation

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness

Sensitive site exploitation (SSE) missions are often conducted far forward and without the luxuries of time and assured security. Analysis of site information has traditionally required network backhaul which has often proved elusive in electronic warfare-contested or space-contested operational environments. Even under ideal conditions, onsite forces face difficult challenges of making sense from, the volume, variety, and velocity of data encountered. Teams need to collect...

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March 5, 2019

Verizon’s 5G First Responder Lab Unveils the Program’s First Cohort of Five Public Safety Technology Companies

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Police, Situational Awareness

Blueforce Selected by Verizon as first of 15 Transformative Technologies for Public Safety WASHINGTON, DC – Verizon continues to demonstrate its commitment to the public safety industry through action. Today, in partnership with Responder Corp, Verizon announced five participating companies for the first cohort of the 5G First Responder Lab, a first-of-its-kind innovation incubator that will give leading first responder technology companies from around the globe...

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