Motorola Solutions to Launch Suite of Public Safety Mobile Applications
April 11 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Company expands software that provides real-time intelligence to
public safety users
Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) today announced it will introduce
a suite of public safety mobile applications for communication and
collaboration. The public safety mobile apps suite adds to the
company’s growing portfolio of integrated software solutions.
With the expansion of public safety broadband, interoperable
mobile applications are a highly effective way to provide critical
intelligence to officers in the field and personnel at the command
center. Leveraging years of in-depth customer research, Motorola
Solutions has developed a suite of public safety mobile
applications that work across different networks and devices,
enabling real-time communication and collaboration that can
accelerate time to resolution.
“The need for real-time intelligence has never been more
important to public safety users,” said Bruce Brda, executive vice
president, Products & Services, Motorola Solutions. “Apps for
messaging, mapping and other tasks are part of daily life for
citizens, but these capabilities have not yet been developed and
deployed for public safety users. Motorola Solutions’ suite of
public safety mobile apps is purpose-built for the needs of our
customers and provides an integrated, interoperable solution for
sharing critical information and intelligence.”
The suite includes a core set of apps for public safety
communication and collaboration, to which advanced capabilities
such as apps for live video-streaming, electronic citations,
database search and collaborative “whiteboarding” will be
added.
The communication and collaboration suite is an integrated set
of mobile apps including:
- Messaging, which lets first
responders securely share text messages and photos with individuals
or talk groups across smartphones and two-way radios, enabling
faster communication and collaboration. For example, Messaging
enables a user to send a photo to a voice talk group.
- Mapping, which enables
location-based collaboration by showing nearby officers and quickly
creating “geo-fenced” voice- or text-based communication groups
with officers in the vicinity. It allows an officer to talk to
another officer one block away – even if he doesn’t know the
officer’s name.
- WAVE, the company’s push-to-talk
(PTT) solution that lets smartphone users securely communicate with
a simple press of a button. In addition to enabling groups of
smartphone users to easily communicate with one another, WAVE also
provides a secure PTT bridge with the land mobile radios police use
today, enabling teams to communicate using push-to-talk across
networks and devices
- Telephony, which enables users
to make secure, encrypted phone calls.
The public safety mobile apps core suite works across networks
and devices, giving users access to real-time information whether
they’re using a radio on a land mobile radio network or a
smartphone on a broadband network. The apps themselves are also
designed to work “better together” and are connected by a
capability that enables interactions between apps without requiring
the user to return to the app launcher. Users can seamlessly move
from app to app – for example, an officer can use Mapping to create
a talk group of nearby officers, then quickly pivot to a voice
conversation using WAVE.
As with Motorola Solutions’ other broadband solutions, the
public safety mobile apps suite is highly secure. It requires the
authentication of users, devices and infrastructure, and all media
is encrypted. The suite also features convenient single sign-on –
requiring users to log in only once to access all applications –
and a common address book that carries consistent groups and
contact lists across apps.
Motorola Solutions’ suite of public safety mobile applications,
which will be available this year, will be deployed using a
flexible, cost-efficient “software-as-a-service” model.
The suite is the latest offering in the company’s growing
portfolio of integrated software solutions, which are part of
Motorola Solutions’ new software enterprise led by Andrew Sinclair.
Sinclair joined the company in March from the Skype division of
Microsoft.
Learn more:
- Watch a video of public safety mobile
applications in action
- Read the announcement of Motorola
Solutions’ new software enterprise
- See how public safety applications
deliver mobile intelligence to users in the field
About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) creates innovative,
mission-critical communication solutions and services that help
public safety and commercial customers build safer cities and
thriving communities. For ongoing news, visit
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