Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Program Location-Based Services R&D Roadmap

Published

May 22, 2015

Author(s)

Ryan Felts, Marc Leh, Tracy A. McElvaney, Dereck R. Orr

Abstract

The Public Safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will enable data, video, and eventually voice communications to migrate from disparate Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks to a nationwide public safety 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. This document summarizes the results of PSCR's Location-based Services R&D Roadmap. This Location-based Services (LBS) report is the first of several technology roadmaps that PSCR will develop over the next several years to better inform the investment decisions of R&D organizations supporting the public safety community.

Citation

Technical Note (NIST TN) - NIST TN 1883

Report Number

NIST TN 1883

NIST Pub Series

Technical Note (NIST TN)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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Keywords

Location, LBS, PSCR, Roadmap, Location-Based

Citation

Felts, R. , Leh, M. , McElvaney, T. and Orr, D. (2015), Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Program Location-Based Services R&D Roadmap, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1883 (Accessed September 11, 2024)