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Emergency Management

August 27, 2022

Recognitional Support: A School Safety and Security Essential

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, Cognitive Services, Command, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Safety, Security, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence

Multi-variant sensing and cueing largely speaks to physical sensors interacting with each other (even sensors from disparate manufacturers) at high speeds to derive meaning and minimize “false positives”.  Adding privacy-assured artificial intelligence, in the form of cognitive services, provides additional precision for threat detection and mitigation. Recognitional support and stream analytics is an essential component of a multi-tiered approach to identify a security and/or safety...

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August 14, 2022

Autonomous Orchestration: A School Safety and Security Essential

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, Cognitive Services, Command, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Safety, Security, Situational Awareness, Swarm Intelligence

Digital Workflows triggering Emergency Instructions via Samsung MagicINFO-enabled Displays and Axis Public Address Speakers Every day, our physical and digital worlds become increasingly intertwined, presenting opportunity for investments in a future of continuous and lasting change. This is true of Smart Cities, but also Safe Schools and Smart Campuses. This digitalization of the cyber-physical world is especially promising for schools to realize opportunities and overcome challenges...

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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 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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April 16, 2022

Blueforce announces support for Sierra Wireless Mobile Routers for Asset Tracking and Real-time Status of Health

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Discovery, Emergency Management, IoBT, IoT, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics

Complex emergency management is fundamentally a lesson in organized chaos where accountability is a core foundational element of shared situational awareness. Knowing where to find what you need can be as chaotic given that response assets — the vehicles, equipment, autonomous platforms — are rarely in one place and scattered throughout an area of operation. Asset inventory coupled with resources and capability on a "single...

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March 19, 2022

Blueforce Announces Deep Platform Integration for Airbus Tactilon® Agnet Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT)

by Blueforce
in AI, C2, C4ISR, Command, Common Operating Picture, Counter-Terrorism, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, IoBT, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, MCPTT, Mobility, Police, PTT, Situational Awareness, Sustainment, Wearables

For decades now, public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems have provided a reliable, albeit geographically limited, communications backbone and baseline for related command and control systems for public safety agencies. These legacy LMR systems are often limited to the geographic areas of the agency/agencies being served and, in many cases, there may be multiple public safety LMR systems in the same geographic area using...

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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 5, 2022

Mobile Command in a Box: BlueforceMOBILE-CP, powered by T-Mobile

by Blueforce
in autonomous agents, C2, CBRN, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Disaster Response, Edge, Emergency Management, Fire, GIS, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Low Latency, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Video, Wearables

Much like military conflict, manmade and natural disasters present similar challenges of uncertainty, complexity and variability. These time-constrained and chaotic decision environments require rapid adaptation and an ability to pivot quickly to changes in the environment. The complexity of the event, coupled with time compressed decision space and the severity of the potential consequences, creates conditions that are unforgiving of error. Given the austere and...

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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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