by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Imageware Authenticate is the Only Biometric MFA Solution in the First Responders’ FirstNet App Catalog
SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Imageware® (OTCQB: IWSY) (“Imageware” or “the Company”), a leader in biometric identification and authentication, announced today that following a rigorous review process, its Imageware Authenticate solution is now FirstNet® Verified™ and accessible via the FirstNet App Catalog.
FirstNet is the only nationwide wireless broadband communications platform dedicated to America’s first responders and public safety community. Built with AT&T in a public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority, FirstNet brings innovative capabilities to public safety communications to strengthen first responders’ incident response and to help them connect to the critical information they need – every day and in every emergency…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Mutual-aid agreements (MAAs) codify how agencies share resources. It may sound simple, but these standard documents are far more important than the basic definition implies and are not as “standard” as you might think. The MAA is a legal covenant, a promise between neighbors, a community’s pledge to another that says, “We will be there for you.”
MAAs epitomize the civil society that French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville saw as unique to the United States when traveling around the country in the early-1800s. His study of social conditions in his classic “Democracy in America” brought to light the premise that individuals, families, villages and towns working together were the grassroots of a new social order. He saw it manifest in churches, service groups, fire brigades and militias where freedom, safety and welfare were ensured more by small communities than by bureaucrats in distant capitals…
by ECC Editor | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
NGA 911, the leading-edge Public Safety solutions provider, today announces a partnership with Roadside Telematics Corp (RTC), the leading provider of contextual vehicular emergency data, to support linking connected cars with Next Generation 9-1-1 systems, and first responders nationwide. RoadMedic® is the first and only Telematics Service Provider (TSP)-agnostic data delivery platform enabling the development and deployment of automaker-sponsored 9-1-1 Vehicular Emergency Data Set (VEDS) solutions aimed at saving lives during roadside emergencies.
The journey to this partnership started in early 2000, when Lawrence E. Williams, CEO and Founder, Roadside Telematics Corp., and Darold Whitmer, Executive Vice President, NGA 911 L.L.C. had the vision to deliver Telematics Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) and other critical automobile data to 9-1-1 call takers and dispatchers… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
SALT LAKE CITY – Priority Dispatch® is revolutionizing the emergency dispatch industry with its new cloud-based calltaking software, ProQA® Discovery, which can be deployed and maintained 100% virtually, including implementation, training, certification, and quality assurance. ProQA software has long been recognized as the standard of care for emergency calltaking with its research-based medical dispatch protocols created and backed by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch™. Now ProQA Discovery will help modernize emergency dispatch calltaking by bringing flexibility, innovation, and high performance to communities of every size – especially sheriff-based departments…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 25, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
FirstNet subscribers should have a choice of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) services this winter, when a new offering from Motorola Solutions is expected to be available following a collaborative development effort with AT&T, the contractor building the FirstNet nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN).
Scott Agnew, AT&T’s assistant vice president for FirstNet products, said that Motorola Solutions was selected as the second MCPTT provider—the first offering, FirstNet PTT, was launched in March 2020—through a competitive procurement process conducted by AT&T…
by ECC Editor | Jul 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Intrado Corporation (“Intrado”), a global leader in technology-enabled services, and ADT, a leading provider of security, automation, and smart home solutions, today announced a partnership that enables ADT to deliver additional data to 911 centers and first responders throughout the alarm response process by means of Intrado’s Emergency Data Broker ™. When an alarm is triggered, ADT is able to send important event information with additional data for delivery to the appropriate 911 center for homes and businesses monitored by ADT. With this data delivery system, 911 telecommunicators and first responders will benefit from better situational awareness about the affected premises, helping to improve response safety and effectiveness… READ MORE
