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IT and business consulting services firm CGI is supplying a new digital licensing platform to manage the various licenses, registrations, permits and certificates required by New South Wales Government agencies to promote public safety and ensure compliance with legislation.

Mobile phone services provider Lycamobile has been penalised $600,000 by the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA after prolonged and large-scale customer data failures, which could have put people in danger.

The deal is a “multi-year contract for mission critical technology and services to transform emergency management in the state”.

Global mission-critical communications provider Motorola Solutions has launched in Australia its next-generation radio designed to help public safety personnel meet challenges like those they have continued to face during the national lockdown.

BlackBerry AtHoc Public Safety edition provides local governments and universities with the ability to deliver critical communications directly to the public in an accurate, secure and trusted manner.

Australia will be awash with IoT devices in the next few years according to Palo Alto Networks which cites a new report forecasting that the global value of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices being used in homes globally reached more than US$1 billion in 2019 - and will reach US$5.3 billion by 2023.

Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia is looking at the use of technology for public safety, and has been testing some concepts recently, officials from the company say.

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has launched its critical communications broadband portfolio for service providers, aimed at enabling them to meet the business-critical and mission-critical needs of industries and public safety agencies as digitalisation and modernisation of land mobile radio communications increases.

Motorola Solutions is "building the Salesforce.com of public safety", its global head of software Andrew Sinclair has told iTWire.

A Swinburne Uni student developer team has scored the $25,000 prize at the 2018 Motorola Solutions hackathon in Australia, with an extreme weather reporting app, marking the first time uni students have won the competition.

Darwin-based business systems developer Radical Systems has won the 2017 Motorola Solutions public safety hackathon.

The Genetec Australian Application Development Centre will focus on expansion into application solutions for the retail, banking, public safety, government and transport sectors.

Vodafone and Nokia have teamed up to deliver a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) powered by 4G networks can improve public safety.

Telstra’s national public safety mobile broadband capability, Telstra LANES Emergency, will be available for Emergency Services Organisations (ESOs) this coming summer.

Nokia has formed an alliance with other mobile operators, public authorities and first responders to standardise the use of LTE for public safety.

Motorola and Ericsson are collaborating on development of next-generation push-to-talk communications for the public safety market and will test the technology in Australia with Telstra.

Systems integrator and IT services company Ajilon, crisis communications company AtHoc and integrated multi-sensor analytics provider iOmniscent have come together with Microsoft to develop solutions designed to reduce crime, decrease costs and improve operational effectiveness for Australian cities.

Motorola is partnering with crime analytics provider Wynyard Group on a big data analysis initiative which it claims will help solve crimes faster and more efficiently.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is an important part of its parent company's Social Innovation strategy to combine the group's IT and operational technology expertise. Further fruits of that strategy are coming to market.

NEC has secured a partnership agreement with the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the 2020 games to be staged in Tokyo.