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November 14, 2021

New eBook: 4 Mission Essentials for Stadium Security, Safety, and Enhanced Fan Experience

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, International, Interoperability, IoT, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Radar, Retail, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video

Our nation’s stadiums, arenas, and concert venues host millions of people each year for special events. The majority of these venues will not contend with an extreme emergency during any given year. However, as we have seen in Las Vegas and more recently in Houston, consequences of extreme activity at these events, whether caused by human violence, natural disaster or another factor can be devastating...

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September 22, 2021

Operational Sustainment: The Role of IoT, AI, and Cued Autonomous Platforms

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Police, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Wearables

Battlefield, disaster response, and public safety sustainment is both art and science; it's about synchronizing, integrating, and transporting commodities in a highly "just-in-time" manner to provide maneuver and incident commanders with freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolonged endurance. As it turns out, the "science" of sustainment is not terribly difficult as it is grounded in basic math and computation, based on real-time time...

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September 7, 2021

Blueforce Announces EAGL Gunshot Detection Plugin for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in AI, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Efficiency, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Police, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics

Every day,  our physical and digital worlds become increasingly intertwined, presenting huge opportunities for investments in a future of continuous and lasting change.  This is true of Smart Cities, but also intelligent retail and smarter buildings.  This digitalization of the cyber-physical world is especially promising for municipalities to uncover opportunities and overcome challenges specific to the ever present goal of creating "safer cities".  Critical to...

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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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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 14, 2021

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 18, 2021

Going Global: Expanded Language Support across the Blueforce Platform

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, International, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Language, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Occupational Safety

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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June 28, 2020

BlueforceWBGT as a tool for the Prevention of Heat Related Injuries

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT

Millions of U.S. workers, including those in the military and public safety, are exposed to heat in their workplaces, but also during training. Although illness from exposure to heat is preventable, every year, thousands become sick from occupational heat exposure, and some cases are fatal. Most outdoor fatalities, 50% to 70%, occur in the first few days of working in warm or hot environments because...

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June 17, 2020

Blueforce Disease Standoff Detection and Informatics Solution

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance

Balancing privacy and public health, while providing real time informatics to detect “viral blooms” in Smart Cities The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in an era of unprecedented uncertainty. For businesses, the virus has introduced unparalleled issues with business continuity, supply chain disruptions, and employee health. If there is one thing history has shown us, it's that pandemics are known to occur in waves. Infections spike, peak,...

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