Data and How It Will Change the Public Safety Communications Landscape [WEBINAR]
Ready or not, data is taking over the world. So what does that mean for emergency communications?
The way in which public safety answering points (PSAPs) respond to both emergency, and non-emergency events, will change dramatically once public safety communications starts harnessing the the increasing availability of data in our communities. Here are some interesting stats:
- Internet-connected machines are expected to be more than 200 billion by 2020 according to research from Intel.
- Gartner predicts that the IoT market will eventually include 20.8 billion things.
- Technology giant Ericsson predicts that in 2018, there will be more IoT gadgets than mobile devices.
In today’s communications environment, PSAPs rely primarily on voice communications to provide an up-to-date picture of what’s happening at the emergency scene and communicate with other first responders. This is problematic when the communications infrastructure becomes disabled during natural disasters, or when a victim is unable to place a call for help.
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