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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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August 16, 2020

Blueforce IoT Meets Samsung Digital Displays for Sensor and AI Initiated Workflows

by Blueforce
in Uncategorized

Here in the heat of summer, companies are coming to understand that the virus and its aftershocks will be felt for months, if not years.  The coronavirus will eventually be controlled, but by the time this happens, employers will have new regimens in place for managing their workforces.  So they are starting to make longer-term investments in technology to inject distance into in-person commerce, but to...

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June 28, 2020

BlueforceWBGT as a tool for the Prevention of Heat Related Injuries

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Notification, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, Law Enforcement, Location, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, WBGT

Millions of U.S. workers, including those in the military and public safety, are exposed to heat in their workplaces, but also during training. Although illness from exposure to heat is preventable, every year, thousands become sick from occupational heat exposure, and some cases are fatal. Most outdoor fatalities, 50% to 70%, occur in the first few days of working in warm or hot environments because...

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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 17, 2020

Blueforce Disease Standoff Detection and Informatics Solution

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Heat, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Medical, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance

Balancing privacy and public health, while providing real time informatics to detect “viral blooms” in Smart Cities The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in an era of unprecedented uncertainty. For businesses, the virus has introduced unparalleled issues with business continuity, supply chain disruptions, and employee health. If there is one thing history has shown us, it's that pandemics are known to occur in waves. Infections spike, peak,...

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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 12, 2020

Blueforce Announces Support for the Garmin Tactix Delta Military Grade Wearable

by Blueforce
in AI, CBRN, COVID-19, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Blueforce is on a constant mission to find new and novel wearable devices and sensors for our military and public safety customers deployed around the world. Combining Blueforce with wearables enables a wide array of customer use cases to include COVID-19 pre-diagnosis medical monitoring, operational life safety, and human performance monitoring. When we learned of and then saw the new Garmin Tactix Delta, we knew...

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Canton Ohio deploys Wi-Fiber and Blueforce for Smart City Decision Superiority

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance

CANTON OHIO: It's home to the Football Hall of Fame, Kent State University, and now Wi-Fiber’s Smart City and Real Time Crime Center, powered by BlueforceEDGE, for distributed gunshot intelligence and more. Wi-Fiber manufactures a best-in-class Smart City Platform which leverages BlueforceEDGE to fuse a wide array of pluggable and dynamically adaptable sensors in the lamp head which include: Lighting control, two-way microphones, speakers, 4K...

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