The Bernalillo County Office of Emergency Management (BCEM) operates a state-of-the-art emergency management system to help effectively coordinate the use of county, state and federal resources to protect the lives and health of county citizens and visitors from the effects of natural or human-caused disasters… Read more…
Recently, the FCC has mandated that major providers of copper POTS lines should sunset maintenance and support for devices and services that depend upon them beginning in August 2022. While there are many reasons for this, the primary issues are the high costs of laying new and maintaining existing lines. Costs that are… Read more…
Mia Silva is the Public Safety Director for a large municipality along the southeastern coast of the USA. When disasters strike, it falls to her to coordinate emergency relief efforts across all the departments under her supervision. One year, after a hurricane made landfall, power lines and broadband communications went down across…Read more…
For law enforcement organizations that depend on field forces and mobile networks, the Cradlepoint R1900 mobile router provides a ruggedized GNSS/GPS-enabled in-vehicle network solution. Combined with a Netcloud Mobile Performance plan it provides threat management, web filtering, application visibility, analytics, and functionality including… Read more…
Zach is the EM Coordinator for an Emergency Operations Center. When disasters strike his county, it falls to him and his team to coordinate emergency relief efforts county-wide. When a hurricane made landfall last year and power lines and broadband communications went down, he found himself in the dark, along with thousands of… Read more…
The majority of vehicles deployed by law enforcement agencies are designed to be as visible as humanly possible. With lights flashing and sirens blaring, the objective is to ensure their presence is known. Some departments however, their goal is the opposite. They need their vehicles to keep a low profile, and go unnoticed while… Read more…
While every rail service hopes to ensure riders enjoy the most pleasant travel experience possible, their foremost mission is to provide the safest riding experience and environment possible. In recent years, tragic accidents have called attention to the need to ensure that
safety remains one of fundamental principles of the transit industry… Read more…
Whether public or privately owned and operated, utilities are working to guard our nations critical infrastructure from threats – physical and digital. With the ideal security systems in place, these organizations can accomplish both. Urban and remote water treatment sites, power plants, oil refineries, and… Read more…
Today the FCC also announced that requests for $5.137 billion in funding to support 9.1 million connected devices and 5.4 million broadband connections were received during the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program’s initial application filing window. The window, which closed August 13, 2021, attracted applicants from all 50 states, and… Read more…
Captain Diaz is a seasoned firefighter in charge of a fire department in a medium sized city. There are numerous industrial and chemical plants within the city, and Captain Diaz wants to vastly improve her fire and rescue teams ability to respond to especially rough environments under extremely hazardous conditions. Read more…
