How local governments can capitalize on real-time communications
With modern digital communications services, municipalities can foster secure and efficient collaboration, increase productivity and even better protect citizens.
Report: 80% of Experts Say 'Catastrophic' Data Breach Is Inevitable by 2021
And per usual, legacy IT and lack of employee expertise are challenges.
Modern data analytics for public safety IoT
The sheer volume of data generated by internet-of-things devices requires modern and efficient platforms that can maximize the data insights to ensure a safer population.
New Orleans opens Real Time Crime Monitoring Center
The command center will use video captured from strategically mounted cameras and license plate scanners to give police real-time assistance during violent crimes.
The Annual Cost of U.S. Cybercrime Could Top $100 Billion
Companies aren’t properly incentivized to protect their networks and we’re all paying the price, the Council of Economic Advisers concludes.
Is the Public Outcry Coming From Your Constituents or Bots?
It’s getting harder to discern fact from fiction online, and public officials will to need to fight bots with bots.
Smart grid research on Chattanooga's muni-broadband network
A partnership between the city's Electric Power Board and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is collecting real-time sensor data that will allow the grid to see fluctuations immediately and balance the electrical load.
ATF wants to expand its ballistics matching database
The searchable national ballistics database helps investigators match images from fired bullets and spent cartridges to other rounds that may have been fired from the same gun.
House dives into artificial intelligence
By improving their understanding of AI, legislators want to be able to leverage the technology to improve efficiency.
Fighting the flu with a shot of data
A local health department is using a visualization platform to make its data on weekly flu cases more accessible.
What do government workers think of collaborative tech?
As agencies move toward seamless omnichannel collaboration, the majority of employees still report the performance of unified communications technology is lacking.
The Mayor, the Smart Sewer System and Burrito Night
Just how targeted are the sensors in South Bend’s sewers?
3-D models from satellite data on the fly
IARPA is developing automated systems that can quickly build complex 3-D models from commercial, satellite and airborne imagery.
Pennsylvania’s data-driven opioid strategy
A dashboard that tracks opioid prescriptions and emergency department visits helps the Opioid Operational Command Center identify overdose spikes and provide appropriate response.
How local governments ensure an accurate census
To get an accurate list of addresses to work from, the Census Bureau enlists the help of state and local governments to update what it has on file.
5G gets NTIA support
Industry expansion of 5G services has the critical support of the federal government, a senior leader at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration said in recent remarks.
LoRa networks for transmitting sensor data
A low-power wide-area network is providing internet connectivity to environmental sensors near Washington, D.C.
A framework for smart city interoperability
With the Internet of Things-Enabled Smart City Framework, city managers, vendors and suppliers can ensure interoperability across smart city projects.
The End of the Custom Technology Era
The public sector is still waking up to the realities of the cloud software market.
Point Cloud City: NIST's 3-D indoor mapping model
LiDAR-created 3-D indoor point cloud models will foster indoor mapping, localization and public safety applications.
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