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May 12, 2020

Canton Ohio deploys Wi-Fiber and Blueforce for Smart City Decision Superiority

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance
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CANTON OHIO: It's home to the Football Hall of Fame, Kent State University, and now Wi-Fiber’s Smart City and Real Time Crime Center, powered by BlueforceEDGE, for distributed gunshot intelligence and more. Wi-Fiber manufactures a best-in-class Smart City Platform which leverages BlueforceEDGE to fuse a wide array of pluggable and dynamically adaptable sensors in the lamp head which include: Lighting control, two-way microphones, speakers, 4K...

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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
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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
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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...

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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
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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
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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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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
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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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January 14, 2019

Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI)

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness
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By John Black, Vice President—Federal, Blueforce Development Corp. An Eye-opening Moment and Genesis of S2S-AI Rapid Prototyping Next week, at the Wilcox Industries Range Day at SHOT Show, outside Las Vegas, Blueforce will provide a live fire demonstration of Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI), a proof-of-concept of IoT data fusion, applied to a sniper scenario, one year after its inception. On a sunny day, last January on the...

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January 13, 2019

Blueforce Announces Support for Tactical PTT Networks

by Michael Helfrich
in Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, PTT, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables
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Zello PTT Launches as First Tactical PTT Plugin for BlueforceTACTICAL and BlueforceCOMMAND Land mobile radio (LMR) systems, featuring public safety-grade radios and infrastructure, have been the historical "go-to" technology for military and first responders for mission-critical voice and "push to talk" (PTT) communications. For decades, PTT in the military and first responder sectors was provided exclusively by agency-owned LMR systems. All of that is changing. Mature...

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September 9, 2018

Blueforce on Display at IACP 2018 Orlando

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, Azure IoT, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables
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Since 1893, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has been shaping the law enforcement profession. The IACP Annual Conference and Exposition has been the foundation, providing leaders with new strategies, techniques, and resources they need to successfully navigate the evolving policing environment. IACP has been a leader in the law enforcement industry throughout it’s 125-year history. Join Blueforce in Orlando October 6-9, 2018...

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August 28, 2018

Samsung Public Safety Technology Showcase

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Fire, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness
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Blueforce is proud to be a part of Samsung Electronics America Public Safety Showcase in NYC on September 13, 2018 where we will provide hands-on demonstration of the Blueforce Hyper Enabled Responder.  Event starts at 11:30A with a keynote from TJ Kennedy. LOCATION: Samsung 837, 837 Washington Street, New York, New York To attend, please RSVP....

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