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PSCR is implementing a Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Network to provide manufacturers a location for early deployment and evaluation of their systems in a multi-vendor environment.

Modified Rhyme Test — A PSCR (Public Safety Communications Research) study to understand how background noise (listen to samples) affects fire fighter LMR (land mobile radio) voice communications.

PSCR is providing public safety video application research samples to the CDVL (Consumer Digital Video Library), which PSCR helped to launch. Margaret H. Pinson leads the PSCR program’s CDVL efforts. See her ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.) SIGMM (Special Interest Group on Multimedia) interview, “An Interview with Video Quality Experts.”

 Highlights

Participate in the Public Safety 700-MHz Broadband Demonstration Network. Email or call, (303) 497-4950, Emil Olbrich. Details here.

  • Express interest by 5 PM MST (Mountain Standard Time), APR 30, 2010.
  • Register for the MAR 15 informational webinar meeting by 5 PM MST, MAR 12, 2010.

FEB 18, 2010 — PSCR in the news: “D.C. Picked as site for Urban 700 MHz Public-Safety Demonstration,” Urgent Communications.

FEB 3, 2010 — PSCR in the news: “Washington, D.C., Partners with Feds to Test 4G Technology for National Public Safety Network,” Government Technology.

FEB 3, 2010 — PSCR in the news: “Q&A: 700 MHz Demo Broadband Network,” MissionCritical Communications.

FEB 1 – 3, 2010 — PSCR hosts the second Video Quality in Public Safety Workshop.

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 Upcoming

IWCE logo MAR 10 – 12, 2010 — Visit us in booth 8088 at IWCE 2010. Catch our presentations in these sessions:

Attend these PSCR-hosted events at IWCE:

  • Public Safety 700MHz-Broadband Demonstration Network Q&A session MAR 11, from 10 AM to 11 AM in room S202.
  • Public Safety VoIP Interface Requirements Meeting MAR 11, from 9 AM to 4 PM in room S203.

 

The PSCR program provides research, development, testing, and evaluation to foster nationwide first-responder communications interoperability. The PSCR program provides insight to wireline and wireless standards committees developing standards for voice, data, image, and video communications.

Housed within the U.S. Department of Commerce Labs in Boulder, Colorado, the PSCR program is a joint effort between:
The PSCR program has earned two Department of Commerce Gold Medal awards for the performance of applied engineering and research to advance public safety communications interoperability. The PSCR program's engineering and research is sponsored by: