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Conferences

PSCR 2020_The Evolution of Direct Mode in 3GPP

Author(s)
Richard A. Rouil
Direct Mode communication remains one of the major hurdles for transitioning from Land Mobile Radio (LMR) to broadband technology. This session will start by...

PSCR 2020_UAS Standard Test Methods

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_5G Security – Evolution not Revolution

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_ Tech to Protect - Year in Review

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_Speech Analytics for Public Safety

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_Pecha Kucha Portfolio Overview

Author(s)
John Beltz, Roger Blalock, Donald Bradshaw, John S. Garofolo, Joe Grasso, Scott Ledgerwood, Brianna Vendetti
The PSCR Research Portfolio Leaders provide overview presentations of the projects housed within their portfolios, using just 20 slides that showcase each for...

PSCR 2020_Non-ISSI LMR to LTE MCPTT

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_Building VR for Public Safety

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_Expanding the SIM Card Use Prize Challenge Overview

Author(s)
Michael J. Bartock, Conor Patrick, Matt Lourie, Shane Weeden
PSCR and a few partnering entities finished a recent PSCR sponsored prize challenge, the Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety. The challenge requested...

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

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_Social Media Incident Streams

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
The ubiquity of mobile internet-enabled devices combined with wide-spread social media use during emergencies is posing new challenges for response personnel...

PSCR 2020_INNOVATING ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDER MISSIONS

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_ LMR Data Collection for Traffic Modeling

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: What We Learned by Participating in a PSCR Challenge

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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