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March 6, 2022

NYPD Transit Police Blaze the Path using BlueforceTACTICAL for Multi-Sensor Fusion and Subterranean Bomb Response

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness

The intelligence community has been warning for some time about “home made” explosive and chemical weapons, many of which can be fashioned from materials bought at Home Depot or the local pool supply store. Fast forward to Saturday March 14, 2015 when leaders in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq provided the Reuters news organization with soil and clothing samples taken by the peshmerga from...

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March 3, 2022

Blueforce Severe Weather Alert Micro-Service for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fire, GIS, HAZLOC, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness

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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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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December 6, 2020

Integrated K9 Operations: Blueforce on the Discovery Channel

by Blueforce
in C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, HAZLOC, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

Distributed sense-making from K9 and military working dog sensor arrays deployed on Blueforce designed harness systems.  Learn more about Integrated K9 Operations for Special Tactics Teams using Blueforce, as broadcast on the Discovery Channel. ...

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November 22, 2020

Blueforce adds Recognitional Support for Edge Operations

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Counter-Terrorism, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Fusion, HAZLOC, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

Blueforce's new EDGEbox for Linux will Ship With Recognitional Plugins Given the tempo of operations and the collapsed decision space presented by increasingly non-predictive threats, we continue to hear a common refrain: decision makers want nothing to do with a big data problem when on target, or at an incident site. The “Commander” is too often drowning in data, yet desires an explicit collision of “sense-making”...

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June 20, 2020

Adaptive Mission Planning and Execution Using the New Blueforce GeoJSON Plugin

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Wearables

If you have been following Blueforce for any amount of time, you know the value we place on open standards. Even more so, standards that are portable between a wide array of compute environments, but also those that are light on the network. We have become quite enamored with REST/JSON given the speed in which it allows stateless inter-connectivity between Blueforce APIs and disparate systems....

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June 12, 2020

BlueforceBEACON for Lone Workers and for Personal Safety: WEBINAR Playback

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, AWS, BlueBeacon, Command, Common Operating Picture, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, HAZLOC, Heat, Location, Lone Worker, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT, Wearables

Whether you are involved in executive protection, campus safety, or manage teams of mobile "lone workers", a fundamental requirement exists to keep track of people and to ensure their safety as they go about their day. BlueforceBEACON is a highly secure software based emergency notification system that provides a safety net. The product delivers location services, secure text communications, covert emergency camera triggering, “listen live”...

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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

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

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 can be...

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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

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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