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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Mosaic system tenants that relate to time constrained decision environments increase survivability while enabling rapid adaptation for the good guys, and creating complexity and uncertainty for the adversary through the rapid composition and recomposition of disaggregated IoT sensors and AI swarms. A mosaic approach treats threat as a "complex adaptive system" and leverages low-cost manned and unmanned swarming formations, flexibly networked and rapidly configured to...
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Blueforce has been working diligently over the last six months on our new BlueforceTACTICAL and BlueforceEDGE ports to Linux. Much of our work has been in developing next generation Blueforce Plugins for the Linux platform that support and extend capability to shrink the footprint, but also the Space, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements such that the code can run on “System on Chip” containers, but...
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Exciting times indeed. Our partnership with Wilcox Industries, Samsung, Providence UK, Tactical Equipements FR and VARSPEX (CA) plus active international engagement pushes Blueforce rapidly into global markets as we add new service providers, value added resellers, and technology partners. With these partnerships comes expansion into new geographies, here in the United States, but also globally. With these new geos comes the need to support a...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 4 We sat down with Jordon Sun, Chief Innovation Officer for the city of San Jose, and talk about how San Jose building a truly smart city that is data-driven, digitally responsive to the community needs, and an infrastructure that supports technology. ...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 2 Robert Bush Senior Director of Sales and Steve Zitney Public Safety and Justice Business Development Specialist at Connections discuss Smart Cities and Public Safety trends, insights and the role Blueforce plays. ...
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It's hard to believe that the first recorded organized method of public lighting was deployed in 1417 by the Mayor of London, Sir Henry Barton. Residents were ordered to hang a lantern outside of their homes at nightfall. Even then, urban lighting was installed as a public safety measure, allowing residents to leverage illumination to avoid being attacked or mugged. Baltimore was the first city...
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SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 1 In this episode, Michael Helfrich our founder and CEO shares his thoughts on Mobile Edge Compute and Blueforce’s focus points for 2021. ...
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"Power to the Edge" is the name of a book written by Dave Alperts and Richard Hayes which describes a shift in the late 90’s to a threat model that required that we think differently about conflict and threats to our interests. The book describes technology frameworks that can deliver small unit swarming effects in time-collapsed decision environments to more quickly respond to, make sense...
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Michael Helfrich, our founder and CEO, shares his thoughts on Blueforce’s innovation areas for 2021: Swarm intelligence, Distributed Micro-Services, Decision Aids, Rapid Adaption and Recomposition...
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After a successful six-month phase 1, Canton Police Department is rolling out Wi-Fiber’s Connect-n-Protect platform, integrated with Blueforce, to four additional areas of Canton NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, Blueforce Development Corporation, a leader in edge-based situational awareness and IoT/sensors for Smart Cities and Public Safety, today announced the expansion of the Canton, Ohio rollout of Wi-Fiber’s Connect-n-Protect platform, integrated with Blueforce, to four additional areas of Canton. This...
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