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May 12, 2020

Canton Ohio deploys Wi-Fiber and Blueforce for Smart City Decision Superiority

by Blueforce
in AI, autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, COVID-19, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Machine Learning, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Stream Analytics, Surveillance

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

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March 29, 2020

COVID-19 Exposure App

by Michael Helfrich
in AI, autonomous agents, CBRN, COVID-19, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Location, Medical, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

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 community’s talent to contribute to the world’s response to the pandemic....

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July 22, 2019

Verizon 5G: Intelligent and Accelerated Speed of Command for Military and Public Safety

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Discovery, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fire, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, Mobility, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

It has been called many names: distributed cloud, fog computing, and 4th generation data center, but with the impending mass deployment of 5G a variant of distributed cloud is more commonly referred to as "multi-access edge computing" or "MEC". The idea behind MEC is to deliver compute, bandwidth, and micro services much closer to the end user and IoT devices for faster and more informed...

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July 19, 2019

Squishy Robotics Teams with Blueforce

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Dashboard, Edge, Fusion, HAZLOC, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Law Enforcement, Location, M2M, Occupational Safety, Police, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Squishy Robotics and Blueforce Development Corporation are working to integrate our technologies to provide an improved user interface (UI) experience for our customers by enabling the data obtained from Squishy Robots to be displayed and shared on the Blueforce software platform. Blueforce, which is based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, provides advanced sensor fusion/data sharing capabilities for enhanced tactical decision support and situational awareness. At present, the Squishy...

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March 23, 2019

Blueforce Intelligent Edge Solutions for Sensitive Site Exploitation

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, GPS Denied, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness

Sensitive site exploitation (SSE) missions are often conducted far forward and without the luxuries of time and assured security. Analysis of site information has traditionally required network backhaul which has often proved elusive in electronic warfare-contested or space-contested operational environments. Even under ideal conditions, onsite forces face difficult challenges of making sense from, the volume, variety, and velocity of data encountered. Teams need to collect...

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January 14, 2019

Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI)

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, IoT, ISR, Sensors, Situational Awareness

By John Black, Vice President—Federal, Blueforce Development Corp. An Eye-opening Moment and Genesis of S2S-AI Rapid Prototyping Next week, at the Wilcox Industries Range Day at SHOT Show, outside Las Vegas, Blueforce will provide a live fire demonstration of Sensor-to-Shooter Artificial Intelligence (S2S-AI), a proof-of-concept of IoT data fusion, applied to a sniper scenario, one year after its inception. On a sunny day, last January on the...

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January 13, 2019

Blueforce Announces Support for Tactical PTT Networks

by Michael Helfrich
in Common Operating Picture, Dashboard, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, PTT, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Zello PTT Launches as First Tactical PTT Plugin for BlueforceTACTICAL and BlueforceCOMMAND Land mobile radio (LMR) systems, featuring public safety-grade radios and infrastructure, have been the historical "go-to" technology for military and first responders for mission-critical voice and "push to talk" (PTT) communications. For decades, PTT in the military and first responder sectors was provided exclusively by agency-owned LMR systems. All of that is changing. Mature...

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August 21, 2018

The Hyper Enabled Operator

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, Azure, CBRN, Cognitive Services, Common Operating Picture, Distributed Sensing, Edge, Fusion, GPS Denied, HAZLOC, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, K9, Law Enforcement, Lone Worker, Mobility, Occupational Safety, Police, Radar, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Surveillance, Wearables

A Blueforce advisor told us very early on that to truly understand customer pain and the very problems we hoped to solve with our technology, we had to "live a week in the breach". So we did, and we continue to do so. We spend many, many weeks each year deployed alongside of intelligence analysts, far forward commanders, door kickers, CBRN responders, EOD, investigators, undercover...

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March 20, 2018

Microsoft Selects Blueforce for Connected Military Command Vehicle

by Michael Helfrich
in CBRN, Distributed Sensing, Fusion, Interoperability, IoT, ISR, Mobility, Radar, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

General Stanley A. McChrystal (RET) will likely go down in history as a fundamental change agent in how we think about and organize to counter a very different 21st century threat model. His success in the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was rooted in seeing our enemies as decentralized and autonomous fighting forces. They are not bound by treaty nor institutional rules of engagement, but...

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March 18, 2018

The Benefits of Real-time Stream Analytics for Tactical Operations

by Michael Helfrich
in autonomous agents, CBRN, Fusion, Hybrid Life Support, Interoperability, IoT, K9, Mobility, Recovery, Sensors, Situational Awareness, Wearables

Blueforce Announces General Availability of BlueforceEDGE Azure IoT Plugin for Real-Time Stream Analytics Our industry talks a lot about the importance of information, but what often goes missing is any consideration of the PERISHABILITY of information. That is, some bits of data have a shelf life measured in minutes and hours, where other bits hold value for days, months, and even years. Blueforce chose to innovate...

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