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June 20, 2020

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....

June 17, 2020

Balancing privacy and public health, while providing real time informatics to detect â€œviral bloomsâ€ 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,...

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...

CANTON OHIO: It's home to the Football Hall of Fame, Kent State University, and now Wi-Fiberâ€™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...

May 2, 2020

To help first responders handle the worldwide spread of COVID-19, Blueforce Development and Zebra have partnered closely to offer a situational awareness platform that can be rapidly deployed by law enforcement agencies. Blueforce provides an easy-to-use subscriber interface to securely connect with people, sensors, and AI services in seconds, using Zebra rugged mobile devices to capture data and remain connected in critical environments. Utilizing the...

April 26, 2020

Itâ€™s the same kit we have deployed for more than 10 years for border counter-terrorism joint task forces. A kit that is airline checkable (46 lbs; 32" L x 20" W x 9" H) and provides communications, sensor fusion, and a distributed common operating picture that crosses domains, agencies, and networks. More importantly, a kit that isnâ€™t confined to a single vehicle and can be...

March 29, 2020

Electronic Medical Counter-Measures for Disease Mitigation and Containment

by Michael Helfrich

in AI, COVID-19, Edge, IoT, Machine Learning, Medical, Stream Analytics

The Pandemic Response Hackathon to hack COVID-19 started this past Friday at 1600P EDT and continues through the weekend. The Pandemic Response Hackathon is a virtual hackathon aimed at better understanding and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics. The goal of the hackathon is to bring public health professionals alongside the technology communityâ€™s talent to contribute to the worldâ€™s response to the pandemic....