Watch Collision-Tolerant Drone in Indoor Inspection
One of the challenges of flying drones indoor in complex and confined spaces or in contact with humans is the risk of collisions and...
Communication Giant Offers Disruptive Tech for First Responders
First responders may utilize the computing power of a smartphone throughout the workday to complete myriad tasks requiring connectivity in the foreseeable future, according...
Revolutionary Public Safety LTE Communication Trial Underway
The public safety community has long called for mobile broadband to support its mission to save lives. With the adoption of LTE mobile broadband...
Double-Eyed Drone – New Technology
DJI has teamed up with thermal imaging specialists FLIR to launch a new two-lensed camera system. The double-eyed drone enables drones to break new ground...
Samsung Unveils Rugged Smartphone Fit for First Responders
In the public safety sector, mission-critical communications must get through, as the information is highly important to the first responders. While many smartphones now...
Drones Can Keep Environment Green
Quite a few drone developments focus on clean energy technologies for powering the unmanned aerial vehicles. But drones can also contribute to the environment...
911 Call Centers Shift to Cloud Computing
As first responder agencies in the US move toward shared ESInet environments and full next-generation 911 infrastructure (NG9-1-1), the ability to record multimedia communications...
First Time Helicopter Succeeded in Fire Fighting Operation at Night
The ability to fight fires from the air at night would give aircraft more hours in the day to respond to fires and therefore...
Advanced UAV Sensors to Help During Natural Disasters
An advanced UAV reconnaissance system was successfully tested, and will soon serve the U.S. Air National Guard in conducting airborne assessment of natural disasters...
Software Updates Firefighters on Building Plans on Real-time
Firefighters and other first responder teams often need real-time information about the construction of the place they are entering in order to save lives....
Game-Changing Tech – Panoramic Thermal Imaging
Sometimes there is a need to cover a wide horizontal field of view in the imaging. The commercial solutions for providing broad panoramic thermal...
Firefighting Drone Sensors Stream Critical Info on Realtime
Drones in the service of first responders can eliminate surprises by understanding a scene and its threats far better than possible from the ground....
Boom in Drone-Enabled Big Data Technologies
Drones offer a vast, bird’s eye view for collecting data, which can contribute enormously to diverse areas such as weather, traffic flow, and even...
Ground-Breaking Tech Sought for Smart City Emergency Response
First responders capabilities are to be enhanced within the framework of the US efforts to advance smart city technologies. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Communication Sharing Across Border During Disaster
During a disaster, thousands of people are trying to communicate through the same network at the same time in the same area. This results...
Video Game Tech Trains Active Shooter Incident Response
The US has been enhancing preparedness to active shooter attacks. Using cutting-edge video game technology and animation, the U.S. Army and Homeland Security Department...
First Responders Counter Communication Jamming
First responders’ successful operations depend to a large extent on good communications capabilities. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate...
Next-Generation Tech for First Responders
First Responders often lack sufficient means of communications in an emergency, due to the lack of cellular coverage etc., a situation that makes it difficult...
Leading Anti-Terror Drone to Be Used for Fire Monitoring
Forest surveillance in northeast China is the latest mission to add to the list of civil tasks conducted by drones in the Rainbow series,...
3D Mapping to Locate Survivors in Burning Buildings
Engineers from two universities, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen, have developed novel signal processing methods for imaging and material characterization with the aid...
First Responders Tech Tested in New York Large Scale Urban Exercise
A large-scale exercise to assess authorities’ capabilities to improve first responders’ preparedness and response to an urban, critical incident was recently conducted at the...
First of Its Kind Training Installation for Search and Rescue Teams
As we learn from experience, most of the trapped victims in the aftermath of earthquakes and other natural disasters are rescued by by-passers, rather...
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