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July 5, 2021

IoT Intelligence Driven Outcomes for Retail and Sports Venues

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoT, Location, Retail, Sensors, Stream Analytics

The last 18 months have yielded unprecedented disruption to businesses, with retailers in particular experiencing a vastly changed consumer buying environment. Consumers have become quite comfortable with buying online, requiring retailers to now reimagine the customer experience. Experiences that focus on building "relationship" which is now as important as "transaction". Critical to becoming customer-obsessed and reigniting growth, is technology and data which fuel intelligent outcomes...

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May 20, 2021

BlueforceEDGE: Sensor & AI Fusion for Military, Public Safety, and Commercial Autonomous Platforms

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C4ISR, Case Study, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Uncategorized, Video

The origins of the Blueforce platform began with a singular and simple mission set: Enable warfighters and first responders to leverage their mobile compute devices to quickly form secure human workgroups in order to respond to a rapidly evolving incident. Blueforce delivered this in 2012 in the form of BlueforceTACTICAL for Android which enabled self-synchronization of location, shared ground intelligence, and the fusion and movement...

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April 29, 2021

Blueforce adds Dynamic IoT Prioritization and Orchestration at the Edge

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Wearables

Mosaic system tenants that relate to time constrained decision environments increase survivability while enabling rapid adaptation for the good guys, and creating complexity and uncertainty for the adversary through the rapid composition and recomposition of disaggregated IoT sensors and AI swarms.   A mosaic approach treats threat as a "complex adaptive system" and leverages low-cost manned and unmanned swarming formations, flexibly networked and rapidly configured to...

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April 22, 2021

EPIC 1: BlueforceTACTICAL for LINUX Plugin Core

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Linux, Location, Medical, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

Blueforce has been working diligently over the last six months on our new BlueforceTACTICAL and BlueforceEDGE ports to Linux. Much of our work has been in developing next generation Blueforce Plugins for the Linux platform that support and extend capability to shrink the footprint, but also the Space, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements such that the code can run on “System on Chip” containers, but...

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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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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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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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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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