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October 18, 2020

Shared IoBT Targeting Solutions: Announcing the new Wilcox RAPTAR-S V3 Plugin for BlueforceTACTICAL

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance, Video, Wearables

Despite rapid advances in weapon-mounted digital optics, target acquisition through-the-optic, classification, and identification have changed very little. It comes down to the operator visually acquiring a target and assessing its friend/foe affiliation and threat potential. This “tried and true” methodology is vulnerable to several points of failure. The foremost vulnerability is reliance on the operator’s ability to classify and identify the target, which may appear...

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October 5, 2020

Blueforce WarpVideo Streaming Plugin: Ultra Low Latency Video Streaming for BTAC

by Blueforce
in AI, AWS, C2, Cognitive Services, Command, Counter-Terrorism, Edge, Low Latency, Situational Awareness, Video

Gaining real-time access to the wide array of video sources at an incident location has always been one of the "golden rings" of interest for on-scene Command. We largely trust our eyes and value visual confirmation as we consider the criticality and impacts of the decisions that need to be made. For incident-based video sources and the associated live streaming, low latency influences the sense...

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