Digital Ally received a multiyear upgrade order from the Box Elder Sheriff’s Department in Brigham City, Utah, for 18 of its in-car camera systems paired with 18 body-worn cameras, built-in auto-activation technology and migration to the firm’s cloud storage solution hosted by Amazon Web Services.

UPS said it would collaborate with German drone maker Wingcopter to develop the next generation of package delivery drones for a variety of use cases in the United States and internationally. Wingcopter’s unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology can deliver a variety of goods over long distances in multiple international settings, the companies said.

The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program plans to launch its First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge April 1.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) is taking comments on an internet of things (IoT) document that outlines how the technology affects 9-1-1.

Nokia is delivering a landslide monitoring and early warning system for highways operations management company BGIGC Group. The system is in partnership with China Mobile/CMCC Guangxi.

Thales and Australian commercial carrier Telstra are working with Microsoft and Arduino to pave the way for scalable security for connected internet of things (IoT) devices by implementing a solution that enables trusted and secure end-to-end communications between devices and the cloud.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division launched the CHARIoT Challenge, an augmented reality (AR) and internet of things (IoT) competition. The challenge consists of two contests for innovators to design new AR interfaces and emulate IoT data to advance public-safety communications.

The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) postponed its annual conference, scheduled for April in Riga, Latvia, because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Public Safety Unmanned Response Team North Texas (PSURTNTX), a non-profit organization comprised of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) remote pilots from regional public-safety entities, and AIRT, a Florida-based non-profit organization, signed an agreement of cooperation to support the use of UAS for public-safety and emergency-management missions.

Officials from the Abu Dhabi Police, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC), United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, Ministry of Presidential Affairs (MOPA) and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) attended an exclusive event at the Emirates Palace 19 February. The conference aimed at broadening the discussion about the important role artificial intelligence (AI) plays in building safe cities through Motorola Solutions’ portfolio and its latest critical communications technology.