A study in California has found ‘crash alerts’ are posted on Google’s community-based traffic and navigation app Waze an average two minutes and 41 seconds sooner a corresponding 911 call.
Emergency communications workers from Australia and New Zealand will gather in Christchurch later this week to discuss innovation in public safety communications, at the National Emergency Communications Working Group – Australia/New Zealand’s (NECWG) annual Industry Engagement Forum.
Motorola Solutions, the arm of Motorola that focuses on mission critical communications for public safety and heavy industry customers, is working on multiple fronts to enhance the capabilities of its offerings by incorporating artificial intelligence, speech recognition and augmented reality technologies.
Spark is to provide the Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct with cloud and wireless communications services under an agreement with the Ministry of Justice.
Auckland-based Optima, a provider of predictive analytics and simulation algorithms for a number of industries including emergency services, health care and transportation, has been acquired by Intermedix, a US company focusing on health care and emergency response industries.