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July 15, 2021

Hyperlocal Weather Plugin for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in AI, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fire, Fusion, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Location, Lone Worker, Machine Learning, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT, Wearables

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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July 5, 2021

IoT Intelligence Driven Outcomes for Retail and Sports Venues

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoT, Location, Retail, Sensors, Stream Analytics

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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June 21, 2021

Tactical Video Link Plugin for Blueforce Linux: Edge-based Streaming with Shared Awareness

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Linux, Low Latency, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Video

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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June 1, 2021

How The National Institute of Standards is looking to use Automated Stream Analysis for Public Safety to improve situations for first responders

by James Alvord
in Podcast

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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May 31, 2021

Speed of Command Saves Lives and Property

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Medical, Mobility, Police, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video

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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May 30, 2021

Map Services Plugin for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, Location, Medical, Mobility, Recovery, Situational Awareness

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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May 20, 2021

BlueforceEDGE: Sensor & AI Fusion for Military, Public Safety, and Commercial Autonomous Platforms

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C4ISR, Case Study, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Uncategorized, Video

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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Never Alone

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, Fire, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Lone Worker, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

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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April 29, 2021

Blueforce adds Dynamic IoT Prioritization and Orchestration at the Edge

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

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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April 22, 2021

EPIC 1: BlueforceTACTICAL for LINUX Plugin Core

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Linux, Location, Medical, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

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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