Public Safety

Interview: Jan Thompson, Ericsson

31 May, 2016 by Jonathan Nally

Ahead of his presentation at Comms Connect Sydney, we spoke with Jan Thompson, Global Head of Safety and Security for Ericsson, to find out where the company is heading in the public safety sector.


Location data law fails to pass

30 May, 2016 by Jonathan Nally

A proposed US law that would have made it easier for law enforcement officials to obtain location data from smartphones during emergencies has been defeated.


Convicted for finding TETRA network flaws

25 May, 2016

A word of caution: if you find security flaws in your local police radio network, be careful how you approach them. One Slovenian researcher has found out the hard way.


Operating outside LTE service areas

24 May, 2016 | Supplied by: NEC Corporation

NEC's device-to-device communication technology will enable the transmission of images outside LTE service areas for public safety personnel.


Emergency smartphone technology wins big prize

11 May, 2016 | Supplied by: Flinders University

An emergency smartphone communications system, which can operate without mobile phone towers, has won a prestigious international award for post-disaster relief work in the Pacific.


South Africa arms public safety with Airbus radios

05 May, 2016 | Supplied by: Airbus/Secure Land Communications

The Stellenbosch Municipality in South Africa has chosen to equip its police and firefighters with P8GR pagers and other radios from Airbus Defence and Space.


Triple Zero location tracking boosted

03 May, 2016

Calls to emergency services from mobile phones now contain improved location information, following upgrades to the Triple Zero service.


SES delivering connectivity in rural Bangladesh

14 April, 2016

Satellite company SES is helping to connect doctors and communities in rural Bangladesh.


LMR market trends and forecast, 2015–22

13 April, 2016

A new report forecasts the land mobile radio systems market will be worth over US$25 billion by 2022.


FirstNet's vision for a Vehicular Network System

11 April, 2016

FirstNet's CTO Devices Team has outlined its vision for a Vehicle Network System (VNS) and the role it can play in incident deployment and coverage extension.


Fujitsu awarded contract for Tasmanian emergency dispatch system

07 April, 2016 | Supplied by: Fujitsu Australia

Fujitsu has been awarded a $15.3 million contract to deliver Tasmania's first unified computer-aided dispatch system for emergency services.


Zetron computer-aided dispatch (CAD) System update

21 March, 2016 | Supplied by: Zetron Australasia Pty Ltd

Zetron has released its computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system with a range of updated capabilities, designed to improve the ways public safety agencies obtain, use and track incident information and resources.


Building a public safety broadband network — the US experience

15 March, 2016 by Chief Jeff Johnson

When it comes to comms, if there's one lesson Australia's public safety professionals can learn from their US counterparts, it's to get involved and be a part of the process.


600 satellite alerts from marine vessels in 2015

02 March, 2016

Inmarsat has revealed that more than 600 distress alerts from marine vessels in urgent need were broadcast over the Inmarsat C service in 2015.


REFFIND adds emergency beacon feature for employee safety

01 March, 2016 | Supplied by: REFFIND Limited

REFFIND has added a free emergency beacon to its mobile platform, allowing organisations to check on employees during emergencies or catastrophic events.


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