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Public safety
From helping to develop technologies that detect explosives and locate survivors in a collapsed building to video software that identifies criminals and high endurance building materials, NIST is working to keep people safe.
Trained dogs are incredible chemical sensors, far better at detecting explosives, narcotics and other substances than even the most advanced technological
The largest prize challenge in NIST's history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize
Scenario: you’re driving to your new job at a university campus and using your Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled smartphone to tell you—and your car—how
Taking another step toward strengthening the nation’s critical infrastructure, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has drafted guidelines
Long imagined in science fiction, exoskeletons that can dramatically improve and extend human performance are becoming a reality for workers on manufacturing
First responders must be able to communicate during an emergency. Too often in critical situations, communications among public safety agencies are hampered by
The development of new platforms for characterization of complex microbial samples are hampered by lack of reproducibility and comparability across different
A nationwide public safety broadband network will provide public safety with the capability for securing and controlling access to the network, applications
The nationwide public safety broadband network will enable first responders to use modern mobile devices for interoperable public safety operations. While this
High-strength materials are used to protect wearers from injury due to ballistic and stab threats, as well as other potentially life-threatening incidents. The
Chelsea J. Greene, Jesse M. Frey, Zainab O. Soetan, Jaden K. Pieper, Silas T. Thompson
Access time generally describes the time associated with the establishment of a talk path upon user request to speak and has been identified as a key component
An operator of a radiation detection system that displays a high rate of false alarms may be- come desensitized to these alarms. This action is known as alarm
Erwin J. Mattijssen, Cilia Witteman, Charles Berger, Xiaoyu A. Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Reinoud Stoel
Forensic firearm examination provides the court of law with information about the source of fired cartridge cases. We assessed the validity of source decisions
Christopher D. Zangmeister, James G. Radney, Edward P. Vicenzi, Jamie L. Weaver
Filtration efficiencies (FE), pressure drops (ΔP) and construction parameters were measured for 27 cloth materials (12 cotton, 8 full synthetic, 3 synthetic
The purpose of this software is to measure the access delay of a push-to-talk network. Access time generally describes time associated with the initialization
This Repository is for the microcontroller utilized in the Mission Critical Voice (MCV) Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement system from NIST's Public Safety
This Unreal Engine project has been created specifically for the PSCR Haptic Challenge. It features three different first responder scenarios that will be
This experimental application was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR)
This experimental application was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR)
The Smiths Detection 6046si cabinet x-ray system was designed for security screening of bags, parcels and other objects of similar size. The system runs at 160