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In attempt to save more lives and make emergency response more efficient, more and more AR technologies ard adopted by governments. With augmented reality
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division holds an important annual conference covering the
Augmented reality technology is becoming more popular in the public safety community. For example, fire departments are starting to test out AR helmets and
Dereck Orr, chief of the Public Safety Communication Research (PSCR) division within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), highlights key
The Tech to Protect challenge from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) is giving startups
NIST’s largest open innovation prize competition to date awarded $810,000 to contestants at the Tech to Protect Challenge National Award Event on May 1, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS -- A team of recent graduates from the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI and the School of Science at IUPUI has been awarded $70,000
The world around us — both globally and locally — changed dramatically a few months ago when the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit country after country. Many
The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) awarded funding to contestants in the Tech to Protect Challenge, which launched in April 2019 and invited
May 4th is recognized across the globe as International Firefighters’ Day. This international observance was instituted in 1998 after a devastating wildfire in
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a dual track national competition to spur innovation of Internet of Things (IoT) and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will soon kick off two national innovation contests that aim to strategically leverage augmented reality and
In this episode, Ellen Ryan, Deputy Division Chief for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research Division
First responder teams arriving at a disaster scene often don’t have access to the carrier-based terrestrial LTE network for connecting to all the different
The National Institute of Standards and Safety Public Safety Communications Research has launched the First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge with prize
A new project supported by funding from the National Institute for Standards and Technology focuses on testing-as-a-service for mission-critical communications
A critical new initiative is under way to accelerate the development and adoption of mission critical services (MCS) including Mission Critical Push-to-Talk
A critical new initiative is underway to accelerate the development and adoption of mission-critical services (MCS) including mission-critical push to talk
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research Division are testing deployable communication systems
With over 60 million American adults owning a smart speaker, human-to-machine conversation have largely become a part of a daily ritual. Though these exchanges
Researchers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and
Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and
Imagine firefighters trying to navigate through an unfamiliar, burning building full of suffocating smoke and deafening noise. Firefighting is exceedingly