Episode 156: Breaking Down Z-Axis Tracking During Phase 4 of the FRST Challenge with Michael Ilsbroux
Part 5 of our FRST Challenge - Phase 4 Mini Series:
Hello Smart Firefighting Community!
Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy!
In this episode:
- How to create solutions that are affordable, scalable, flexible, and usable
- What are the most important factors when implementing technology into public safety?
- What are the end goal aspirations for the FRST Challenge?
Hosted at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, the FRST Challenge is a competition focused on producing marketable prototypes that demonstrate indoor localization tracking and tracking of first responders within 1-meter accuracy without any pre-deployed infrastructure. The challenge is administered by the Indiana University Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab and funded by the NIST Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division.
Find out more from Michael Ilsbroux, the co-founder and CEO of EPIC Blue.
Michael envisions a future where people enter into an effective and complementary partnership with state of the art technology, which led him to create EPIC Blue. Driven by customer feedback, EPIC Blue found industry-wide location capability gaps impacting safety and efficiency in the field. This discovery led to developing two complementary workforce solutions to address those gaps and substantially improve operations. So start the episode to learn more now!
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