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January 27, 2021

Canton Police Expand Smart City Technology Footprint in Canton Ohio

by James Alvord
in Press Release

After a successful six-month phase 1, Canton Police Department is rolling out Wi-Fiber’s Connect-n-Protect platform, integrated with Blueforce, to four additional areas of Canton NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, Blueforce Development Corporation, a leader in edge-based situational awareness and IoT/sensors for Smart Cities and Public Safety, today announced the expansion of the Canton, Ohio rollout of Wi-Fiber’s Connect-n-Protect platform, integrated with Blueforce, to four additional areas of Canton. This...

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January 12, 2021

Deep Dive into the Blueforce Decentralized Fusion Engine

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, Edge, Fusion, IoT

The central thesis for the Blueforce IoT and shared situational awareness software platform began to form in 2008 after a meeting with a US DoD special operations commander who described a problem he was experiencing; one that we had heard several years prior during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). This special operations group deployed with 18 or more body-worn or person carried...

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December 20, 2020

Swarm Intelligence: BlueforceLINUX for the CUBIC/DTECH M3-LITE

by Blueforce
in AI, AWS, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Counter-Terrorism, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Machine Learning, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

Blueforce helps cut through the onslaught of perishable edge IoT data by enabling collections of human, silicon, and AI endpoints that interact with the physical world with sense-making across the collective. Our new BlueforceLINUX IoT fusion platform was built to enable swarm intelligence in a soldier worn form factor and is optimized for CUBIC/DTECH's full line of tactical edge compute form factors, and screams on...

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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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November 10, 2020

Learn how Blueforce is Deployed in the Fight Against Child Trafficking

by Blueforce
in Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, Law Enforcement, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics

Blueforce was founded with the idea that through our technology, we could have a positive impact on the world. Our products are created to enable organizations doing important things to keep their people safe and have the information that they need to make better informed and faster decisions to accomplish their missions and their goals. When we were approached by Tim Harry, owner of Severance...

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October 25, 2020

How Blueforce is helping provide situational awareness to public safety

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

Situational awareness is a critical component for Incident Commanders making life and death decisions in time constrained environments. As the internet has matured, and public safety IoT/sensors are deployed, the commander now has access to a wide array of data that transcends mere location and map markups. With this proliferation of public safety sensors, drones, robotics, and now smart city infrastructure, the commander has an ever...

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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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September 28, 2020

Blueforce Starter Kits now available

by James Alvord
in Fire, Lone Worker, Medical, Mobility, Police

Small and medium-sized businesses now have access to situational awareness software that is military-grade, and affordable. Public safety agencies rely on operational intelligence to effectively respond to emergency situations. Technology can boost the amount of collectible intelligence and help synthesize and analyze it so informed decisions can be made.  Real-time location of essential personnel and assets is one of the cornerstones incident data that helps first...

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September 21, 2020

Blueforce #BackToSchool IoT and AI Solutions for Employees and Students

by James Alvord
in COVID-19

We can all agree that a goal during the COVID-19 pandemic is to get our schools reopened as safely and as quickly as possible given the many known and established benefits of in-person learning. What has become clear is that all educational systems need strategies and tactics for safe day-to-day operations that can be adopted implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19 inside of the...

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