A new white paper from TCCA said new technologies are not yet suitable for mission-critical supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) applications, such as smart grid management, river level monitoring, oil and gas applications or civil defense warnings. This is primarily due to the lack of in-built resilience and the use of unlicensed spectrum.

Hytera Communications released its 2017 annual report, noting the firm generated revenues of 5.4 billion Chinese yuan (US$860.6 million) in 2017, up 56 percent year-on-year.

Nokia and Smart City Capital launched a joint program to help Canadian cities fund and reduce the risks associated with smart city initiatives. With available project funding from Smart City Capital exceeding C$2 billion (US$1.6 billion), the program complements the Smart Cities Challenge program launched by Infrastructure Canada earlier this year.

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) Apex program released a handbook aimed at ensuring the varied on-body technologies used by first responders interoperate.

The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) staff is gearing up for the annual Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting with some big changes planned for the 2018 event. More than 450 attendees are expected to converge at the San Diego Convention Center Jun 5 – 8, said Dereck Orr, PSCR chief.

Six Rice electrical and computer engineering students developed hardware and software to coordinate sensor-carrying drones that can evaluate local atmospheric conditions, measure electronic signals such as Wi-Fi and map areas in three dimensions.

Bane NOR, the state-owned agency responsible for the Norwegian national railway infrastructure, contracted Siemens to upgrade the signaling equipment of the entire Norwegian rail network to the European train control system (ETCS).

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting the development and deployment of the first two Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) research platforms, based in Salt Lake City and New York City.

Praxis Aerospace Concepts International (PACI), a developer of drone ports and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), entered into a long-term spectrum lease within the upper 700 MHz A block. Financial details of the lease were not disclosed.

PCTEL opened its wireless product development center in Akron, Ohio. The center is dedicated to the development of devices for the industrial internet of things (IoT) and other enterprise-class applications.