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Disaster Response

January 9, 2022

Far Forward Edge Micro-Services for Emergency Management

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, HAZLOC, International, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Linux, Location, Occupational Safety, Police, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance

While cloud-based analytics and AI services can provide high-value recognitional services across imagery and data, too often data communications back to the cloud are jittery and quite often denied due to the crush of requests related to the incident, hampering access. Moving recognitional and computation services to the edge ensures access, but also delivers an ultra-low latency solution in time constrained environments. BlueforceEDGE is our autonomous...

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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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October 3, 2021

Blueforce Plugin Series: CBRNE and HAZMAT Response

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Location, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

The complex environment of warfare and mass casualty incidents produces multiple environmental hazards that can harm personnel and prevent the accomplishment of military and public safety objectives. The renewed use of chemical weapons in Syria, contaminated water in military on continental United States (CONUS) bases, and a deadly fourth generation agent (FGA) employment in United Kingdom illustrate the continuing evolution of methods and hazards. The lack...

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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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July 19, 2021

Blueforce Plugin Series: Tagger, Tracker, and Locators (TTL)

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Location, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

No matter what the public safety networks look like in 20 years, they are sure to have core capabilities grounded in location-based services.  A critical component of any successful rescue operation is time.  Decision cycle time can be optimized by having the precise location of buildings, core services, emergency service resources, and disaster relief sites. This information is critical to disaster relief teams and public...

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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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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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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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