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Conferences

Benchmarking Thermal Comfort Performance of Two Residential Air Distribution Systems in a Low- Load Home

November 1, 2020

Author(s)

Hyojin Kim, Khiem Nguyen, Lisa Ng, Brian P. Dougherty, William V. Payne

Despite broad recognition that air distribution plays an important role in comfort for residential buildings, few studies have addressed the fundamental ability...

Measuring the Elasticity and Fracture of Soft Gels via Cutting

October 30, 2020

Author(s)

Teresa T. Duncan, Joel M. Sarapas, Adrian P. Defante, Kathryn Beers, Edwin Chan

PSCR 2020_For Technology Innovators, What Should You Know About Public Safety Agencies' Procurement Process?

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, Jessica Ballew, Jim McMillan

For Technology Innovators, What Should You Know About Public Safety Agencies' Procurement Process? This panel will explore insights on the Public Safety...

PSCR 2020_ Tech to Protect - Year in Review

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, Jason D. Kahn, Gary S. Howarth, Margaret Pinson, Bill Schrier, Charles Hardnett, Lauren Schluzas, Austin Handle, Levi Adissi, Francis Lin, Zack Braun

Launched in April 2019, the Tech to Protect Challenge is one year old. This session will recap the progress to date, highlight recent national award winners...

PSCR 2020_ASAPS Challenge Program: Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, John S. Garofolo

Real-time Multimodal Analytic Technology to Save Lives, Property, and Infrastructure Where Every Second Counts!

PSCR 2020_ Connecting the First Responder's Environment

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald L. Harriss

In most first responder events, a building or structure is involved with some degree of importance. Knowledge of building structures and current building...

PSCR 2020_Crisis Collaborations: Challenges for Safe Data Sharing with Differential Privacy

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Diane Ridgeway, Gary Howarth, Christine Task, David Van Ballegooijen

Public safety programs frequently generate data with personally identifiable information. This session examines public safety open data initiatives, the privacy...

PSCR 2020_Access Driven Modified Rhyme Test Intelligibility

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jaden K. Pieper, Stephen D. Voran

Previous work by NIST/PSCR focused on developing a quality of experience-based access time measurement system. This system relies on modified rhyme test (MRT)...

PSCR 2020_PSCR Program Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Dereck R. Orr

PSCRs Division Chief, Dereck Orr, shares an introduction to PSCR 2020: The Digital Experience and a brief overview of PSCRs history. Attendees hear important...

PSCR 2020_ LMR Data Collection for Traffic Modeling

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher D. Dennis, Yishen Sun

The Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Data Collection Project creates a database of Public Safety (PS) LMR usage for traffic/call modeling. The generated models are used...

PSCR 2020_Speech Analytics for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Frederick R. Byers

Evolving applications for public safety communications sometimes rely on speech analytic technologies. These include hands-free voice interface and situational...

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice QoE Measurement Methods

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Silas T. Thompson

This presentation covers the latest update on PSCRs measurement methods for Mission Critical Voice (MCV) Quality of Experience (QoE) Key Performance Indicators...

PSCR 2020_First Responder IoT Environments: Examining Data Foundations

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Alison M. Kahn

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more prevalent in society, there is still a large technology gap existing in the public safety field. This...

PSCR 2020_Broadband Wireless Access Technologies for Deployable Systems: Where are they?

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Maxwell K. Maurice

As public safety entities start to utilize broadband applications and services in their day to day operations, there develops a need to be able to provide these...

PSCR 2020_INNOVATING ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDER MISSIONS

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Hien V. Nguyen, Maxwell Maurice, Terese Manley, Kamel Saidi, Philip Hall, Christopher Stockhowe, Michael O'Shea, Raymond Sheh

Imagine the possibilities of using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to carry a wireless broadband communications network to support a public safety mission...

PSCR 2020_ Public Safety ICAM Critical Topics and New NIST Documents

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

William J. Fisher

Overview of new Publics Safety ICAM NIST Documents.

PSCR 2020_Mobile Fingerprint Capture for First Responders

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jeremy E. Glenn, John T. Beltz, Brad Truitt

This panel will discuss the technology gaps and problem statements currently being researched for mobile, high quality fingerprint capture for first responders...

PSCR 2020_Non-ISSI LMR to LTE MCPTT

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher J. Walton, Chic J. O'Dell

This presentation explores a low-cost method to bridge analog public safety Land mobile radio (LMR) systems into a standards based Long Term Evolution (LTE)...

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice Portfolio Strategy

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Donald A. Bradshaw

An overview of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division 2020 Mission Critical Voice (MCV) portfolio. This includes a cohesive view of the...

PSCR 2020_Building VR for Public Safety

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jack R. Lewis, Christopher E. Johnson, Jeffrey L. Karhoff

In this presentation members of the UI/UX Virtual Reality development team from PSCR NIST will show their process for designing and building VR simulations for...

PSCR 2020_Resilient Communication Network Platform

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Ray, Hien V. Nguyen

PSCR has been researching deployable communications systems for first responders since 2015. In this session, PSCR presents the latest addition to our research...

PSCR 2020_Multicast and Unicast in Serving Public Safety Traffic

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Chunmei Liu

Given a significant amount of group traffic in public safety incidents, multicast has the potential to outperform unicast in terms of precious spectrum savings...

PSCR 2020_Making an Impact: Experiences of PSCR's Awardees

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jeremy E. Glenn, Fidel Liberal, Solmaz Kia, Heather Sittig, Rajarathnam Chandramouli

This session seeks to explore the impacts of the PSIAP program on award recipients. Our diverse panel of awardees will discuss their experience including how...

PSCR 2020_CHARIoT Prize Challenge Discussion

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Scott A. Ledgerwood, Donald L. Harriss, Paul D. Merritt, Bill Gillman, Scott Turnbull

The CHARIOT Challenge launched in early 2020 with a focus on bringing the internet of things (IOT) sensors from personal area networks, smart buildings, and...

PSCR 2020_5G Security Evolution not Revolution

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Cichonski

5G has promised to change the way we communicate with an ambitious slate of capabilities not yet available in the 5G networks deployed today, but rather are...

PSCR 2020_Immersive Firearm Ballistics Simulation in Virtual Reality

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Christopher E. Johnson

Virtual Reality Developer Chris Johnson conducts a deep dive analysis into the considerations and challenges of creating an immersive virtual reality AR-15...

PSCR 2020_Steps You Can Take When Partnering with Public Safety Agencies to Develop and Test Technologies

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Craig T. Connelly, Jonathan Lewin, Charlie Fair

What steps can you take when partnering with public safety agencies to develop and test technologies? How do successful public private partnerships support the...

PSCR 2020: PSCRs Pre-Commercialization Program and Notice of Funding Opportunity: 2020-NIST-PSIAP-TABA-01

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah L. Hughes, Ellen L. Ryan, Scott S. McNichol

During this conference recording, the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division discusses their motivation for a pre- commercialization program and...

PSCR 2020_UAS Standard Test Methods

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Kamel S. Saidi

The session gives a brief recap of the work that NIST has been doing to help first responders use ground, air, and aquatic robots since 2001. This includes a...

PSCR 2020: What We Learned by Participating in a PSCR Challenge

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah L. Hughes, Todd Heinl, Felix Desourdy, Sean Hackett, Ryan Fields-Spack

This NIST publication consists of two past judges and two innovators sharing from their perspective what they learned about innovating for public safety through...

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