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August 11, 2022

Integrated School Safety and Security

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fusion, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Lone Worker, MCPTT, PTT, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence, Video

Since the founding of public education, schools have been charged with the safety of children in their care – a duty to protect. Recent events have shaken the sense of serenity and security that has characterized most school campuses. While the risk of serious violence on school campuses is remarkably low, particularly in its most extreme forms, the potential consequences can be devastating and long-lasting...

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July 30, 2022

Blueforce partners with Arcanum Africa to deliver Blueforce’s edge IoT fusion and shared situational awareness software to the South African market

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, Lone Worker, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence, Video

Arcanum Africa and Blueforce Development Corporation have signed a reseller agreement for Arcanum to bring Blueforce into defense, public safety, personal security, and wildlife/environmental protection in South Africa. Arcanum provides a variety of products and professional services which include state of the art AI and computer vision using interior and exterior autonomous smart drones, broad area mesh communications, ruggedized surveillance systems, and now the entire...

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July 18, 2022

The First 72 Hours: The Need for Rapid Mobile Command

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, MCPTT, Recovery, Situational Awareness, Sustainment, Swarm Intelligence

The first 72 hours after a natural/manmade disaster are critical hours that make or break the speed of recovery. Power is gone. Terrestrial communications are denied if available at all. Worse, a nonpredictive inter-agency mash-up is about to hit and with it comes an interoperability nightmare. The ability to positively impact recovery requires communications and the rapid standup of mobile command in denied, disparate, and...

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July 11, 2022

Blueforce Introduces Demographics Plugin for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Press Release, Retail, Sensors, Stream Analytics, Swarm Intelligence

New edge-based stream analytics tool that delivers gender and age group recognitional support for a wide array of IoT and content orchestration applications for public safety, smart cities, and retail Blueforce Development Corporation, a leader in edge-based IoT sensor fusion, cueing, and autonomous orchestration today launched Blueforce Demographics Plugin, a composable service that delivers ultra-low latency gender and age group identification for use alongside of other...

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March 26, 2022

The Science & Art of Operational Sustainment using IoBT and Swarm Intelligence – Part 1

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Machine Learning, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Sustainment, Swarm Intelligence

Battlefield, disaster response, and public safety sustainment is both an art and science; it’s about synchronizing, integrating, and transporting commodities in a highly “just-in-time” manner to provide maneuver and incident commanders with freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolonged endurance. As it turns out, the “science” of sustainment is not terribly difficult as it is grounded in basic math and computation, based on real-time...

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March 6, 2022

NYPD Transit Police Blaze the Path using BlueforceTACTICAL for Multi-Sensor Fusion and Subterranean Bomb Response

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Machine Learning, Mobility, Police, Safety, Sensors, Situational Awareness

The intelligence community has been warning for some time about “home made” explosive and chemical weapons, many of which can be fashioned from materials bought at Home Depot or the local pool supply store. Fast forward to Saturday March 14, 2015 when leaders in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq provided the Reuters news organization with soil and clothing samples taken by the peshmerga from...

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March 3, 2022

Blueforce Severe Weather Alert Micro-Service for BlueforceEDGE

by Blueforce
in C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fire, GIS, HAZLOC, Heat, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness

The relationship between weather and emergency management (not to mention emergency preparedness) is fundamental and can be quite complicated. Weather causes many of the disasters that require an emergency response, yet awareness of conditions is essential for management of incidents unrelated to weather as the cause. For sure, meteorological awareness can have a profound effect managing the extent of destruction to life and property to...

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February 12, 2022

Crisis Negotiation and De-escalation powered by BlueforceTACTICAL

by Blueforce
in C2, C4ISR, Case Study, Command, Common Operating Picture, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Management, IoT, Law Enforcement, Police, Situational Awareness, Surveillance

Crisis negotiation and de-escalation are law enforcement techniques used to communicate with people who are threatening violence (workplace violence, domestic violence, suicide, or terrorism) and can include barricaded subjects, stalkers, criminals attempting to escape after a botched robbery, and hostage-takers. While basic voice communications are of extreme value, understanding what is going on when the negotiator and subject are not on the phone enables better...

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January 24, 2022

Military Grade Tracking, Collaboration, and Accountability for the Rest of Us: Introducing BlueforcePATROL

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, AWS, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Distributed Sensing, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Fire, GIS, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Linux, Location, Lone Worker, Mobility, Police, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video

BlueforceTACTICAL was the first product in the world to deliver extensible, secure, and scalable body worn sensor fusion. Combined with location services, AI to the edge, PTT, live streaming video, plus unparallel extensibility, our patented edge compute application platform has proven to be the ultimate adaptive "Swiss Army Knife" for mission critical operations where situational awareness is more than just a dot on a map. While...

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January 9, 2022

Far Forward Edge Micro-Services for Emergency Management

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Disaster Response, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, HAZLOC, International, Interoperability, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Linux, Location, Occupational Safety, Police, Safety, Security, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance

While cloud-based analytics and AI services can provide high-value recognitional services across imagery and data, too often data communications back to the cloud are jittery and quite often denied due to the crush of requests related to the incident, hampering access. Moving recognitional and computation services to the edge ensures access, but also delivers an ultra-low latency solution in time constrained environments. BlueforceEDGE is our autonomous...

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