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Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA), an industry body comprised of leaders, influencers, and innovative organizations from all facets within the security, safety, and building automation space, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Enhancing security and Safety Within its first 12 months, OSSA attracted 30+ members, ranging from device manufacturers, software developers, and system integrators to distributors and system on a chip (SoC) companies, helping lay the groundwork for improved s...

Halma plc, the FTSE 100 global group of life-saving technology companies, has appointed Catherine Michel as its first Chief Technology Officer. In this newly created role, Catherine will have global responsibility for the group’s data and IT strategy with a focus on enabling Halma companies to become more data-driven both operationally and in the solutions that they provide to customers. Catherine will report into Halma’s CEO Andrew Williams and be a member of Halma’s Executiv...

Avon Protection is pleased to announce the launch of its next-generation tactical SCBA, the ST54, specifically developed for the tactical operator. The ST54 was designed and built for the global tactical SCBA operator, delivering state of the art scalable respiratory protection in the most austere of environments. Protection From Threat ST54 combined with FM54 mask provides an advanced modular breathing apparatus Combined with Avon Protection's FM54 mask, the system provides an advanced modul...

For his Master's thesis - 'File system fuzzing applied to the BSD operating system family', Christopher Krah, a Graduate of the Department of Computer Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and a Scientist in the Applied System Analysis research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics FKIE since July, was awarded the first prize in the AFCEA Academic Award 2019, endowed with 5,000 Euros. File systems...

Just an hour of unexpected downtime can equal millions in lost revenues to processing and manufacturing facilities. To protect against this unplanned downtime, predictive maintenance is essential, especially for facilities that handle combustible dust. That’s why, Fike Corporation launched Fike Field Service powered by VLR – a new software designed to minimize costly emergency maintenance of Fike customers’ explosion protection devices. Origins of Fike’s Field Service...

ImageTrend, Inc. announced two exciting new features on the company’s Elite ePCR solution: historical EKG images for repeat patients and hospital outcome notifications. These new features complement the already powerful ImageTrend Elite solution for EMS, fire and critical care documentation, and integrated reporting and analysis tools. historical EKG image feature Bringing this technology to a prehospital setting will help clinical decision making and devising the best treatment" The hi...

Drones have ushered in a new dimension to airborne attacks and increasingly confront security agencies (referred to collectively in German as BOS) with new challenges. Drone incidents at the London Gatwick, London Heathrow, and Frankfurt/Main airports have brought operations at three of the largest European airports to a temporary halt, all within six months.  Counter the threat of drones There is also a real possibility of attacks targeting critical Infrastructure and major events in li...

FieldEquip is excited to announce the release of its new solutions for the postal, e-commerce, and packaging industries. Bursys Group’s 14 years of experience with various customers, around the globe, in this domain enabled it to provide the solutions the world is looking for.  A powerful solution with low initial investment will add value in automating and digitizing the day-to-day field operations to ensure the smooth functioning of the assets. easy-to-use advanced technology Fie...

Recycling and waste sites are places prone to huge fire hazards, due to some potentially flammable materials, inherent risks during disposal process, as well as other environmental factors. In particular, battery-related waste fires have become a growing challenge facing the global recycling and waste management sector. A new report jointly produced by Eunomia and the Environmental Services Association (ESA) estimates that of all the average 300 waste fires in the United Kingdom each year, appr...

Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA has acquired a stake in Focus Field Solutions Inc., a provider of industrial safety solutions based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. With this latest investment, Dräger extends its expertise in the area of digital worksites. Focus FS has developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which digitizes critical operations data for people and assets. It offers different modules such as HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), E-Must...

Fire and EMS agencies who use Aladtec Scheduling and Workforce Management software and emsCharts management software can now save time and keystrokes with a new integration. This integration enables emsCharts to receive schedule information from Aladtec frequently, ensuring that staffing data is in sync with emsCharts’ crew information. Gloucester County (NJ) Emergency Medical Service has used Aladtec for its scheduling since 2007 and uses emsCharts for its pre-hospital information manag...

Three representatives from Aladtec, the provider of scheduling and workforce management software for public safety, will be part of APCO International’s Annual Conference & Expo. The conference is billed as a "must-attend" event for public safety communications officials, from frontline tele communicators to comm center managers to public safety communications equipment and services vendors. A conference highlight is expected to be an opening address by Bret Baier, Fox News political...

Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA), an industry body comprised of leaders, influencers and innovative organizations from all facets within the security, safety and surveillance industry will have a strong presence at the GSX 2019 (Global Security Exchange 2019) event, being represented in nearly a dozen member booths across the show floor. OSSA will celebrate its one-year anniversary while in Chicago and demonstrate the rapid progress underway as competing and complementary institutions...

The deployment of the optical fiber at POK’s Nogent-sur-Seine site in France has enabled the fire safety equipment major to increase their internet speed from around 30 Mbps to 200 Mbps. They notice a significant difference when using software, such as skype for video-conferencing with customers or teams abroad. Similarly, sending large files now works very well and efficiently, the company noted. Optical fiber transmission POK strongly encourages their neighboring organizations to equi...

Halma plc, the FTSE 100 global group of life-saving technology companies, has appointed Ruwan De Soyza as its first General Counsel and Company Secretary. General Counsel is a newly created role for Halma. Ruwan will have global responsibility for the group’s legal and compliance affairs and become a member of Halma’s Executive Board. He will also oversee corporate governance as Halma’s Company Secretary based at the Head Offices in Amersham, UK. Infrastructure safety and sec...

Five representatives from Wisconsin-based Aladtec will be among vendors demonstrating the tools and services for fire and rescue services during the International Association of Fire Chiefs Fire-Rescue International conference Aug. 7-10 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Fire-Rescue International (FRI), the annual conference and expo of the IAFC, has provided senior-level leadership training to fire chiefs for 140 years. As an organization, the IAFC represents experts in the first r...

According to a recent study, just over half (54%) of UK Fire and Rescue Services struggle to record their response times to inbound messages and enquiries across their social media channels. With inbound enquiries from residents and other stakeholders increasing overall and the number of social media accounts being managed by the services also on the rise, tracking KPIs such as response time is key to effectively serving stakeholder needs on social. Social media is a vital channel to communicat...

Infographics announced that County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue is the latest Service to move to the FireWatch Cloud – a fully managed service based on the Microsoft Azure platform. The new FireWatch Cloud solution will provide a resilient architecture, flexible access from remote locations, and includes software upgrade services and other benefits. reduces infrastructure costs Graeme Lockhart, Information Services Manager at County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service,...

Lake Assault Boats, part of Fraser Shipyards and a manufacturer of fire, patrol, and rescue craft, has placed a 28-foot vessel into service with the Town of Gibraltar Fire Department located in northern Door County, Wisconsin. The craft provides emergency response and firefighting services for a large section of shoreline and islands located on Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. The purchase of the boat was funded entirely through the Gibraltar Fire-Rescue Association, a local non-profit 501(c)(3...

Rave Mobile Safety (Rave), the trusted provider of emergency and public safety solutions that help save lives, has announced the newest enhancement to its school safety platform, which allows schools to unite school safety technologies directly from the Rave Panic Button app, the most widely used school safety app in the United States. Integration with Rave Panic Button This integration capability gives schools the cross-platform communication that they need to truly protect their communities,...

Zeta Alarms Ltd takes this opportunity to welcome Apex Fire Systems Pte Ltd as their newest global premier partner based in Singapore. Apex has recently helped expand the Zeta brand across the Far East by taking part in exhibitions in Phnom Penh, Vietnam and Yangon to name a few.

When the structure of the Parisian cathedral burned, the Parisian fire brigade sent a tracked robot inside the burning nave, dragging a 70-liter hose and delivering between 1500 and 2000 liters of water per minute, which is too insufficient to extinguish the enormous burning structure. Parisian cathedral fire extinguishing task With current technologies, attacking the fire from elevating platforms would have been more appropriate Onlookers to the arduous fire extinguishing task taken up by th...

Infographics announced a joint collaboration between West Sussex and Surrey Fire and Rescue as part of their move to a fully managed Cloud delivery and maintenance model, with FireWatch on the Microsoft Azure platform. The new FireWatch Cloud solution, underpinned by Microsoft Azure, will provide them with flexible and remote access to their FireWatch fire service management system, including full management and upgrades. It will also deliver a live integration with Surrey and West Sussex Fire...

Fire safety plans are designed in accordance with the risk assessment of a building and its occupancy type. Preparing for a hospital fire safety plan, however, is much more complicated than others. Hospitals have hundreds to thousands of patients confined to beds and wheelchairs or connected to a life support system. Sydney Medical Center Fire Safety Plan The immobility of the patients adds a challenge in an emergency evacuation procedure. In designing Sydney Medical Center Fire Safety Plan...

Fire and EMS agencies that use Aladtec scheduling and workforce management software and Firehouse records management software can now save time and keystrokes with a new integration. With the new integration, the Aladtec schedule automatically populates Firehouse Software’ daily rosters, thereby eliminating the mundane, error-prone task of duplicating roster data. When schedules change, Aladtec seamlessly updates the daily roster. Workforce scheduling and management The Crystal Lake (IL...

Motorola Solutions has launched WAVE – the new, network-independent multimedia communication subscription service in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The cloud-based push-to-talk (PTT) service connects teams and enables real-time group communications using any device from smartphones to two-way radios, tablets and PCs to broadband devices. WAVE Radio TLK 100 In addition to its cloud-based WAVE service, Motorola Solutions is introducing its new purpose-built WAVE Radio: the TLK...

From 18th-20th June 2019, the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur, was home to the much-anticipated Critical Communications World 2019 (CCW), and now that it is over for another year, let’s reflect on what made this show such a success for Sepura. Products launched at CCW2019 The SCG22: a fully featured TETRA mobile radio paired with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth which like its SC Series hand-portable counterparts, is enabled with AppSPACE and extends communi...

FIREX International 2019 (FIREX 2019) was great success for Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd (ASL), as the organization welcomed clients, distribution partners and media at ExCeL London exhibition and convention center, for the duration of the fire safety exhibition. Head of Business Development at Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd (ASL), Neil Voce, stated “We got the opportunity to discuss a number of new projects with existing clients and new prospects over...

Halma plc, a global group of life-saving technology companies, has announced the launch of its new corporate brand, redesigned logo and global website. “Halma’s purpose and growth strategy are dependent on us partnering with others who want to solve the same problems that we do, whether that’s researchers, charities, talent, investors or corporates. Our new brand is designed to help us achieve this, and we hope it will act as a beacon for other innovative, purpose-led organiza...

Motorola Solutions has completed the rollout of a new mobility managed service to Victoria Police, enabling increased situational awareness, safety and productivity on the front line. Officers across the state have received 9,398 mobile devices loaded with smart applications to give them a technological edge to protect community safety. Mobility managed service Motorola Solutions’ complete, end-to-end managed service enables Victoria Police members to focus on core policing activities ra...