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February 7, 2016

A Primer on HAZLOC Certification: Not all Mobile Scenarios Require Intrinsically Safe Devices

by Michael Helfrich
in BlueBeacon, CBRN, HAZLOC, Intrinsically Safe, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Uncategorized

Blueforce Tactical and Blueforce BlueBeacon offer mobile teams an unprecedented level of shared situational awareness during lone worker, fire, hazmat, chemical, radiological, and explosives incident responses. While Blueforce manufactures best-in-class mobile software for deployed teams, these teams leverage smart devices upon which Blueforce software executes to take advantage of the fused sensing, location, and information sharing services that Blueforce software provides. While these types of...

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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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November 8, 2015

Shared Gesture-based Awareness and Command

by Michael Helfrich
in Distributed Sensing, IoT, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Uncategorized, Wearables

Thalmic is developing a next generation armband for gesture detection that is full of motion and muscle sensors and can pickup on the “electrical activity in your muscles to wirelessly control” things via Bluetooth and applications like Blueforce Tactical. Blueforce sees great potential for this next generation of non-spoken command and control. While the applications for controlling other devices are endless, we think the opportunity...

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September 9, 2015

Blueforce Field Day: DC Metro, 14 October 2015

by Michael Helfrich
in BlueBeacon, Distributed Sensing, Hybrid Life Support, Lone Worker, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Uncategorized

With a stated challenge by government officials in shortening what is known as the sensor-to-shooter cycle - the amount of time it takes from when a hostile threat is detected by a sensor - either human or electronic - and when it is attacked, Blueforce Tactical and emerging sensing platforms deliver a closed loop and rapidly adaptable hardware/software platform for real-time sensing leveraging already deployed...

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