Hg, a European software investor, entered into an agreement to invest in F24, a pan-European provider of emergency notification, crisis and incident management and critical communications based in Munich. Hg will invest in a stake owned by Armira and co-founder Ralf Meister, and will become the majority shareholder in the business.

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OMNIQ received an order to provide its artificial intelligence (AI)-based safe city systems for a country in the Himalaya mountain range. OMNIQ’s automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system can capture license plates of vehicles and motorcycles traveling along selected roads and gateways. OMNIQ expects additional orders to follow.

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Honduras 911 Sistema Nacional de Emergencias (SNE) deployed point-to-point products for intercity connectivity and point-to-multipoint products to drive high-definition (HD) video transmission for centralized closed-circuit TV (CCTV) monitoring of Choluteca, Nacaome and San Lorenzo city.

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Hytera introduced a carrier-integrated mission-critical version of its push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) broadband solution. The HyTalk MC end-to-end solution supports Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mission-critical PTT (MCPTT), mission-critical data (MCData) and mission-critical video (MCVideo) services for mission- and business-critical communications users.

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The second phase of the pan-European public-safety broadband communications tender called Broadway Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) began 6 July. Astrid, the lead procurer of the BroadWay PCP, signed contracts with three successful consortia for the solution prototype phase.

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S&T AG signed contracts to acquire Iskratel Group, a European information, communications and technology (ICT) provider for the telecommunications, transport, public-safety and energy industries. S&T AG is a supplier of IT systems in Central and Eastern Europe, employing some 4,900 people in 32 countries around the world.

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A field equipment shelter fitted with fault-tolerant cooling is ensuring the reliability of a wireless communications link that connects the instrumentation on a new gas pipeline crossing a Middle Eastern desert to the remote control room. Fabricated from tough glassfiber-reinforced polyester (GRP) materials, the shelter houses a TETRA base station powered by solar panels to function reliably in an off-grid location some 50 kilometers from the nearest town.

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Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service is the first fire service in the United Kingdom to use the combined Motorola Solutions cloud-based control room and data storage solutions, as well as the integrated CAD solution delivered by Motorola Solutions partner 3tc. By upgrading operations into one platform, the new solution helps the fire and rescue service in Bedfordshire manage its workflow.

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Field management firm Codea announced membership in TCCA, the global critical communications association. Founded in 2008 and based in Finland, Codea’s software is in use by rescue services, hospitals and private ambulance companies for the navigation and handling of emergency missions.

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Etherstack entered a global agreement with Samsung Electronics to deliver next-generation mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) over LTE solutions to telecommunications carriers and governments across the globe, using Etherstack’s digital LMR softswitching technologies embedded within Samsung’s network solutions.

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