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Emergency Notification

January 4, 2016

Combating Normalcy Bias through Training and Technology

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, BlueBeacon, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, IoT, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Recovery, Situational Awareness, Uncategorized

The beauty of being human is that most of us live our lives believing the best in others and that life will be normal and predictive. We expect that things are always orderly and too often, that events that suddenly break the mold of normalcy, aren't as bad as we might want to consider. Our brain is predisposed to assume that things will carry on...

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September 25, 2015

CBRNE Sensing Platforms: Human, Animal, and Autonomous

by Michael Helfrich
in Distributed Sensing, Emergency Notification, Fusion, Hybrid Life Support, K9, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Uncategorized

Blueforce DC METRO Field Day is quickly approaching. No Powerpoint. No lectures. Just a day of "hands-on" with leading-edge emergency management, first responder, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism technologies. The event is sponsored by Blueforce Development, Tech Data, Sprint, and Mac Business Solutions. "Track 2" will feature “Sensing Platforms for WMD/CBRNE” and will demonstrate the latest in technology for mobile curtains of WMD sensing plus shared...

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September 12, 2015

Assured Disaster Communications: Blueforce TACPAC for Disaster Response

by Michael Helfrich
in Emergency Notification, Fusion, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Uncategorized

You know it's bad when you are driving south against a 120-mile rolling backup of vehicles which are headed north.  There are fights at the gas stations.  When Blueforce was asked to pre-deploy with our emergency communications gear to Jefferson Parish in the hours before Hurricane Gustav was to come ashore, we beat the storm by a mere 60 minutes and bunked at a courthouse...

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