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Public safety

Public safety communications research

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Projects and Programs

Wildland firefighter

Network Modeling for Public Safety Communications

Ongoing
Advances in broadband wireless technologies developed by standard developing organizations (SDOs) such as 3GPP and IEEE 802 offer unprecedented capabilities that have the potential to improve the effectiveness of first responders. Our efforts are aimed at evaluating how well emerging solutions meet

Public Safety Communications Research

Ongoing
Too often in critical situations communications the data exchanges between law enforcement and public safety agencies are hampered by equipment incompatibilities. In large part these incompatibilities are due to a lack of standards to provide a common, nationwide approach to telecommunications and

Publications

Voices of First Responders: Fire Service

Author(s)
Shanee Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Sandra Spickard-Prettyman
The goal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program's Usability Team was to provide

Voices of First Responders: Emergency Medical Services

Author(s)
Shanee Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Sandra Spickard-Prettyman
The goal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program's Usability Team was to provide

Software

Analytics Container Environment (ACE) Nano

The ACE Nano is a repository that contains the work done to integrate the Nvidia Nano IoT device into the ACE Framework . It is set up in two components: Jetson

Common code for MCV QoE Measurement Classes

The following is a base library for mission critical voice quality of experience measurement methods. This package contains core code for QoE measurements used

SDNist: Synthetic Data Report Tool

This iteration of the SDNist library (v1.4) is focused on generating reports that compare synthetic data to the NIST Diverse Community Excerpts . The synthetic

ASAPS Development Dataset

The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the Automated Streams Analysis

Tools and Instruments

LTE Coverage Tool

This experimental application was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR)