Next Generation 911 Networks (5)
Is a Storm Brewing in Your Cloud?
The COVID-19 global pandemic has thrust cloud computing into the spotlight, with everything from primary ...
September 29, 2020
NG911 Strategic Plans Only Are Effective If They Can Be Operationalized Effectively
Many organizations have short- and long-term strategic plans. Successful organizations have strategic plans ...
August 27, 2020
PUCs Can—and Should—Continue to Play an Important Role in NG911 Oversight
In the United States, a public utility commission (PUC) is an entity that, under any state law, has ...
August 21, 2020
With GIS Centerlines, the Devil Often is in the Details
Public safety agencies draw polygons using their geographic information systems (GIS) that define their ...
August 12, 2020
Panel Discussion Offers Myriad Tips for Battling Public Safety’s Ever-Growing Cybersecurity Menace
The cybersecurity problem that public safety agencies have is very big and it’s not going away—if anything, ...
July 15, 2020
Call-Handling and Dispatch Technology Considerations for ECCs
First responders historically have arrived at an emergency scene armed with only the information that ...
July 10, 2020
Getting GIS Data Ready for NG911 is Laborious and Time Consuming—and Essential
Many emergency communications centers (ECCs) across the United States are migrating toward Next Generation ...
July 7, 2020
Launching the 911 DataPath Project
A lot of data is being collected about 911 service in the United States by a plethora of government entities ...
July 2, 2020
Looking Beyond the Brick and Mortar
Profound challenges often spur great progress. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Not only is the public ...
June 22, 2020
What the Public Safety Community Can Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a recent post, I touched upon some of the novel ways that the public safety community has responded to the ...
June 17, 2020