Posts in the Category: Smartphone
CommandWear Selected for US DHS Smart City Program
CommandWear is one of the thirteen companies selected by the Department of Homeland Security to deploy a smart city IoT technology with first responders. Funding is made available via the SCITI Labs program, a collaboration between DHS S&T, the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), Smart City Works and TechNexus established less than a year ago. The companies were selected after a highly competitive, global competition to find the most innovative, mature …
Read More »In the News: CommandWear helps save lives while keeping first responders safe.
CommandWear™ launched with the help of Wavefront, a Vancouver accelerator, and have seen rapid growth due to rising demand for enhanced safety and security technologies. The company’s web, mobile and wearable apps address critical needs of first responders around the globe. Read more in Wavefront’s article below.
CommandWear offers Pilot Programs including a deployable pilot kit to allow agencies to test the apps on ultra rugged smartphones from Sonim and new smartwatches. …
Read More »CommandWear Version 4.3 Announced Adding On-Demand Mobile Video Streaming for Public Safety & Security Agencies
An “Internet of Life Saving Things” Platform.
Vancouver, B.C., February 13, 2018: Today CommandWear announced immediate availability of Version 4.3 of its Situational Awareness Application.
The software gives first responders, security personnel, field workers and their supervisors real-time location tracking, health monitoring, two-way secure (encrypted) messaging, and on-demand, secure video streaming from the frontlines to Command.
“The system continues to be developed with direct feedback from those that need these tools to do …
Read More »First Responder Smartwatch – Field Test Results
CASE STUDY
First Responder Smartwatch – Field Test Results
Published November 27, 2017
by Mike Morrow
PDF Version can be downloaded here.
The Problem
Front-line police officers, paramedics, firefighters and security personnel continue to rely almost exclusively on land mobile radios (LMRs) to get real-time information from their commanders and field support groups. In-vehicle mobile computing has been a big step forward in connecting field personnel back to their critical data systems, locating them through Automated Vehicle …
Read More »CommandWear Profiled at the 37th ASEANAPOL Conference in Singapore
CommandWear is a proud strategic partner of the Singapore Police Force and collaborating on deployment of new mobile and wearable technology solutions to enhance officer safety and operational efficiencies.
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean views CommandWear in action at the 37th ASEANAPOL Conference in Singapore. His Facebook post follows.
Read More »CommandWear Releases “Responder Watch” App
CommandWear Systems Inc. Announces
The Responder Watch App
A new wearable safety solution to enhance first responders’ safety.
Vancouver, B.C., September 11, 2017: Today CommandWear Systems Inc. announced immediate availability of the Responder Watch™ App that gives first responders, security personnel, field workers and their supervisors a heart rate monitoring and alerting capability to enhance personnel safety and, ultimately, save lives. When a field worker is in distress, over-exerted or having a cardiac arrest, …
Read More »Rockdoc™ Streamlines Services and Enhances Safety with CommandWear™
CASE STUDY – MAJOR EVENTS
THE SITUATION
Rockdoc Consulting Inc. is a leading provider of medical services and health care consulting for Event Medical Services (EMS), and various industry and government organizations. Rockdoc offers a full spectrum of EMS, ranging from first aiders and paramedics to specialist doctors and nurses for large-scale athletic events, concerts, and festivals – including the highly popular annual Pemberton Music Festival.
From July 14-17, 2016 a record breaking …
Read More »US Dept of Homeland Security Selects CommandWear for First Responder Innovation
News Release – October 11, 2016
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has announced the selection of 10 startup companies, including CommandWear, to be part of EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology, a program designed to bring startups, accelerators, and other strategic partners together in a common research and development effort.
Please read this news release.
Read More »Emerging Digital Solutions Award Announced
CommandWear is very pleased to receive the World Information Technology and Services Alliance’s biennial award for innovative digital solution. The award is presented to 7 companies whose technology solutions are capable of transforming the wellbeing, prosperity, connectivity or productivity of communities around the globe.
“We are proud to be doing our part to equip first responders with the right tools and intelligence to help them keep our communities safe and keep …
Read More »CommandWear Successfully Tested During Major Federal Exercise
CommandWear received very positive feedback from a major federal department who recently deployed our software during a multi-agency critical incident exercise.
The department found that the accuracy of CommandWear’s GPS tracking combined with realtime secure two-way text messaging and picture/video sharing from responders in the field provided unprecidented situational awareness throughout the chain of command. CommandWear deployed the app on ultra-rugged Sonim XP7 Android phones, Apple iPads and Pebble Smartwatches that were distributed from …
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