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Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap

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Author(s)

Tracy A. McElvaney, Ryan Felts, Marc Leh

Abstract

The public safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will increase accessibility of data/video applications to public safety, and allow for the eventual migration of voice communications from disparate Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks to a nationwide Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadband network, the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN). Emerging technologies within this new infrastructure present opportunities and challenges for public safety, and the process of modernizing responder communications requires significant coordination and planning. To facilitate the transition from LMR to LTE, the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program initiated a research and development (R&D) planning process to determine what technology investments are of highest priority to the public safety community.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 1917
Report Number
1917
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1917

Keywords

Public Safety, Location-Based Services, LBS, Land Mobile Radio, LMR, Broadband, Long Term Evolution, LTE, eNodeB, Machine 2 Machine, M2M, Analytics, Data Visualization, interoperability, software defined network, SDN, FirstNet, deployables
Advanced communications, Wireless (RF), Electronics, Information technology, First responder preparedness, Public safety communications research and Disaster and failure studies

Citation

McElvaney, T. , Felts, R. and Leh, M. (2016), Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1917 (Accessed October 7, 2025)

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Created April 19, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018
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