From catching the right criminal to offering hope in overturning convictions, facial recognition offers public safety and the judicial system an effective way out of…
Why Don’t I Need a Landline?: The Rise of Wireless 9-1-1 Service
According to NENA, the 9-1-1 Association, approximately 240 million calls a year are made to 9-1-1 in the US. 80% of them — 192 million…
Augmented Public Safety: AR Technology Gives Emergency Services Second Set of Eyes
Public safety departments are catching up with futuristic, augmented reality technology. Some people aren’t happy about it: for example, Microsoft is raising the alarm about…
White Paper: Advancing Mission Critical Communications
By Leah VanSyckel, Sealevel Systems, Inc People often imagine public safety as stalwart uniformed officers or emergency response teams. However, public safety is also a…
Snuffing Fires: Technology is Smokey the Bear’s Eyes and Ears
The American West is burning. By July 2018, 1.1 million acres of land had burned in 10 states from wildfire activity that began in June.…
Acoustic Sensing and the Internet of Things Combat Gun Violence Outcomes
Pop. Pop pop. Pop. In some places, these noises come from mischievous adolescents popping firecrackers. A few nights of the year, the explosive noises accompany…
Smart and Connected Communities: Saving Lives with IoT and Smart Cities
14 grand engineering challenges face modern and future populations. Among them are big healthcare concerns: how do we improve community health, enhance medical care and…
911 Dispatch Console Computer
A leading supplier of communication systems for first responders contacted Sealevel to redesign the 911 dispatch computer used for secure voice to IP communications. An important goal of the new system was to handle the processing and I/O required by their application without the obsolescence issues inherent with their previous white box servers and off-the-shelf PCI bus audio cards.
Public Security Systems
A manufacturer of security systems for public facilities required a 2U rackmount computer with a large amount of I/O to interface a variety of motors and sensors. The new system based on the Relio platform replaces a PLC and several discrete I/O modules.