Police Wireless Networking News & Articles

• How this police department is preparing for a wireless future

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  Replacing aging in-car technology provided a bonus opportunity for Seattle Police Department to upgrade its wireless communications with advanced in-vehicle connectivity

• The value of cellular broadband for mission-critical communication (white paper)

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  Findings from a recent survey show that needs for connectivity are outpacing agencies’ current capabilities as the pandemic accelerates digital transformation

• What if the emergency center has an emergency?

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  How one Georgia 911 center stays ready to deploy a pop-up dispatch center when disaster hits

• In-vehicle connectivity: 9 important considerations when choosing a mobile router

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  Today’s patrol vehicle needs a high-performance mobile router solution that securely connects mission critical applications and mobile assets

• Five issues PDs must address to harness the potential of NG911 and FirstNet

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  PERF project examines the impact of Next Generation 911 systems and the FirstNet wireless broadband network on police and other first responders

• Verizon developing FirstNet competitor

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  The company says the network ensures public safety officials "have the opportunity to weigh all their options as they make their important communications network decisions"

• Dell's new tablet withstands harsh conditions

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  Tablet is designed to be reliable even in extreme environments

• Utility unveils all-in-one in-car router and DVR for G2 body cams

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  CORE takes the preexisting technologies of video recording and wireless internet access and combines them into one compact device

• Sensity Systems announces upgrades to NetSense platform

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  By Police1 Staff The NetSense 2 platform is Sensity System’s newest light sensory network management product, featuring upgraded integration flexibility, with a smaller, sleeker hardware form-facto...

• Case Study: Lake Havasu PD cuts complaints, costs with TASER AXON

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  Dealing with dubious and costly citizen complaints becomes a whole lot easier when you deploy video technology in conjunction with robust digital evidence management

• 'Next-generation 911' gear modernizes police

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  Patrol officers are being equipped with the kind of high-tech communications gear that puts them on the cutting edge

• More for less: Using 4G technology to catch bad guys

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  Broadband wireless technology enables police agencies to outfit their officers with handheld devices that have capabilities which used to reside only at the station

• Public safety network put to the test at RNC in Tampa

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  Officers on the streets were able to use iPhones during the convention for encrypted voice and data and to stream video over a cellular network that was not available to the public

• Wireless providers to disable stolen phones

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  Federal chairman says move sends a message to criminals

• Video: App acts as remote control for police car

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  Prototype for Windows 8 can send video, location and other data from multiple cruisers to a tablet

• Easing communication with cognitive radio

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  In the wake of the season’s most devastating hurricane, a major metropolitan area reaches out to nearby smaller towns for law enforcement and firefighting assistance. Communication between the city...

• NC city to build wireless network for police, fire

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  Officials say people surfing the web on smart phones has led to problems for police and fire departments

• Emergency radios still not connected post-9/11

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  Responders found they could not communicate with each other

• You've got NERV: Emergency interoperability on wheels

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  The Cisco NERV uses an IP-based network foundation, and meets or exceeds the National Incident Management System (NIMS) standards for type II mobile communication centers

• Leveraging Cisco IPICS and Cisco ISSI for interoperable communications

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  The combined solution takes radio transmissions — whether they’re digital or analog signals — from the radio tower and feeds those signals into a router that then converts the voice radio traffic into IP

• Device finds child porn on WiFi

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  Law enforcement can use the Aircheck to check for online predators

• New police iPhone facial scanner promising and controversial

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  Device attaches to back of mobile phone and identifies suspects by scanning their eyes

• Fighting for a national interoperable public safety communications network

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  The FCC still wants to auction off the D-Block to a commercial wireless carrier but the Public Safety Alliance, APCO, and others are gaining steam in opposition

• SkyTerra offers satellite telephone/radio with push-to-talk capability

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  MSAT-G2 designed for rural, remote, disaster-prone areas

• FCC sticks to its public safety broadband plan

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  By Joelle Tessler Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it intends to move forward quickly with key recommendations in its national broadband plan — ...

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