Mobile Apps and the FirstNet Network

Mark Golaszewski

Director of Applications

www.firstnet.gov

Mobile Apps and the FirstNet Network Mark Golaszewski

Director of Applications

• Create apps that enable public safety user adoption

• Leverage scale and technologies of the commercial market

Apps Executive Summary

Strategy

• Innovate continuously to meet the needs of public safety

• Support a vibrant public safety developer community

• Enable development of a growing portfolio of public safety apps

Vision

• Facilitate the secure coexistence of FirstNet and commercial apps on devices

• Offer best-of-breed solutions

Ecosystem

Applications Ecosystem Vision

Federated ICAM

ICAM

Coexist with commercial apps

App Store

Platform for developers

App Dev Env

Certify = test against criteria

Test & Cert

Agency controls

Local Control

Cost-effective agency options

Cloud Services SDP

Open APIs

Network Services

Application Layer

Service Delivery Platform

App and data security

Security

High Priority Applications

Situational Awareness

Portable Reporting

& Data Access

Streamline Incident

Documents

Information Synthesis

Social Media

De-centralized Operations

AVL/ Location-Enabled Tracking

GIS Mapping

Telemedicine

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual • Envision VAs that understand the language of public safety

Emerging Technologies

Virtual Assistant (VA)

• Use of computer technology to create a simulated environment • Envision increasing use of VR in public safety training

Virtual Reality (VR)

• Augmentation of the real world with digitally generated sensory inputs like visuals, sound, or GPS data, to enhance perception of reality

• Envision AR providing real-time, actionable intelligence

Augmented Reality (AR)

VR Training Example

Reference Video: https://youtu.be/1WtstbO212A

• Firefighter Training • Rescue, Exposure, Ventilation, Attack, Salvage (REVAS) process

• Enables training with various scenarios • Allows interaction with other real/virtual team members • Provides in-session procedural quizzing

Screen shots and video displayed with permission from Designing Digitally, Inc.

AR Heads-Up Display (HUD) Example

HUD (Heads-Up Display) controlled by RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) markers on fingers

• Allows use of hands during rescue

Augmented Mask

• Oxygen remaining (time)

• Exit points

• Temperature

• Positions of team members

• Path taken by firefighter

Reference Video: https://youtu.be/QBAnr2gQTH0

Screen shots and video displayed with permission Tanagram Partners (AR System Concept) and Madtown Media (AR Simulation Design)

For Public Safety, By Public Safety