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While the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) funding has expired, PSCR continues to drive R&D through internal research, CRADAs, and prize challenges.
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nist. gov/ctl/pscr) Communications Technology Laboratory # Public Safety Communications Research Division Serving as an objective technical advisor and laboratory, PSCR is driven towards advancing public safety communications technologies by accelerating their development, adoption, and implementation so that the public safety community can more effectively carry out their mission to protect lives and property.
* AboutExpand or Collapse * Public Safety Innovation Impacts * Public Safety Immersive Test Center * Research PortfoliosExpand or Collapse * Mission Critical Services * Location-Based Services * Uncrewed Aircraft Systems * Archived PortfoliosExpand or Collapse * Public Safety Analytics * Grants and Cooperative Agreements * PSIAP-2022Expand or Collapse * FirstModulAR: Designing and Integrating Augmented Reality User Interface Modules for First Responders * Rapid, Scalable Outdoor and Indoor Machine Learning-Based Mapping of Fire Department Pre-Plans * 5G-enabled Indoor Positioning System for Firefighters using UAVs (5G-IPS) * Augmented Reality Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Mitigation Framework and Application * BroadImPort: Importing European BroadPort MCX concepts to US market needs * A Digital-Twin Enabled Testbed for Public Safety Communication Technologies * First Responder Intelligent Assistant (FRIA) * Navigation Environment merging Virtuality, Ecotone, and Reality enabled by microtechnology for Localization Of Subjects and Things (NEVERLOST) * PSIAP Artificial Intelligence for IoT InformationExpand or Collapse * Smart Communities, Smart Responders (SCSR) – An AI for IoT Prize Competition * PSIAP Public Safety Radio DataExpand or Collapse * Creating a Shared Public Safety Radio Data Set for Research and Analysis * PSIAP Augmented RealityExpand or Collapse * Augmented Reality Interface for Public Safety Operations * Extreme Reality (EXR) Telemetry Interface for Real-Time Operation and Training * Natural Authentication for Emergency Management AR * First Responder Augmented Reality Test Bed * SearchAR User-Centered Adaptive Augmented Reality * Context-Aware Augmented Reality for Cognitive Assistance * EasyVizAR: Edge-Supported, Assistive Augmented Reality for Indoor First Responder Scenarios * PSIAP FR3D PrizeExpand or Collapse * Indiana First Responder 3D Indoor Tracking Challenge * PSIAP MCV Test EquipmentExpand or Collapse * The Valid8 MCX Client Conformance Tester * Mission Critical Test Platform * PSIAP i-AxisExpand or Collapse * Accelerating Adoption and Use of Emerging LBS by Public Safety * PSIAP MCV QoEExpand or Collapse * ARTEMIS QUARC - Quality Under Adjustable Realistic Conditions * Experimentally-driven mapping of QoS-to-QoE for Mission-Critical Voice * PSIAP Point Cloud CityExpand or Collapse * Creating a Catalog of Point Clouds for Public Buildings in Enfield, Connecticut * Map 901: Building Rich Interior Hazard Maps for First Responders * Hancock County Point Cloud City * PSIAP User InterfaceExpand or Collapse * Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces * Investigating Emergency Response Performance with VR-Based Intelligent User Interfaces * FirstSimVR: Evaluating Future Tools Using Today's VR * Cognition-driven Display for Navigation Activities * AR Testing of Equipment and Multiple Immersive Simulations * Glove Based Home to Ambulance Simulation Environment * A Mixed Reality Training and Testing Facility for First Responders * PSIAP 2017Expand or Collapse * PSIAP 2017 - Public Safety Mission Critical Voice * PSIAP 2017 - Location-Based Services * PSIAP 2017 - Public Safety Analytics * PSIAP 2017 - Resilient Systems * Award Recipient Database * Open Innovation Prize ChallengesExpand or Collapse * Current and Upcoming Prize Challenges * Past Prize ChallengesExpand or Collapse * 2024 First Responder UAS Wireless Data Gatherer Challenge * 2023 First Responder UAS 3D Mapping Challenge * 2022 CommanDING Tech Challenge * 2022 First Responder UAS Indoor Challenge * 2021 Mobile Fingerprinting Innovation Technology Challenge * 2021 First Responder UAS Triple ChallengeExpand or Collapse * 2020 First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge * 2020 Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge * 2020 Automated Stream Analysis for Public Safety Challenge * 2020 Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge * 2019 Tech to Protect Challenge * 2019 Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety Challenge * 2019 Haptic Interfaces for Public Safety Challenge * 2018 Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge * 2018 The Unlinkable Data Challenge * 2018 Virtual Reality Heads-Up-Display Navigation Challenge * 2018 Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight and Payload Challenge * 2017 Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge * 2017 Future of Public Safety Technology 100k Video Series * CommercializationExpand or Collapse * PSIAP TABA & Demonstration * Resource LibraryExpand or Collapse ## PSCR Research portfolios ### Z-Axis Test Facility: Improving Indoor Localization for Public Safety The Z-Axis Test Facility, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division, is...
### Advancing U.S. Public Safety Innovation: NIST PSCR Facilitates BroadImPort Project with Domestic and International Expertise The Public Safety Research Communications (PSCR) Division is leading the charge in enhancing U.S. public safety communications. Through the BroadImPort project...
### Technology Demonstrations at 5x5 Do you have an innovative, cutting-edge, or emerging technology that has the potential to advance public safety communications? NIST Public Safety... ### Saving Seconds, Saving Lives: NIST-Funded Challenge Crowns Winners in 3D Tracking Technology The ability to pinpoint a first responder’s precise location inside a building can be a matter of life and death.
View All News and Updates ### When every second counts: government tech helps first responders’ lifesaving missions ### Tait Communications P25 Network Implemented in Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Lab The Critical Communications Review Tait Communications, a global leading supplier of critical communications solutions, loaned Project 25 (P25) network and radio equipment to the U.S. National...
### Ascent Integrated Technologies Launches Rugged Smartwatch for Enhanced First Responder Safety The Critical Communications Review ### NIST, Ensemble, Ezassi, and IU RedLab Announce Winners of NIST UAS Wireless Data Gatherer Challenge Everyone's Internet News Press Wire DC, UNITED STATES, April 30, 2025 / EINPresswire. com/ -- Ensemble Consultancy, Ezassi, and the Indiana University RedLab announced the winners of the final...
### Point Cloud City Open3D ML Repository Point Cloud City (PCC) was developed during the 2018 NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program - PCC awardees generated an extensive catalog of ### Analytics Container Environment (ACE) Nano The ACE Nano is a repository that contains the work done to integrate the Nvidia Nano IoT device into the ACE Framework .
It is set up in two components: Jetson ### Common code for MCX QoE Measurement Classes The following is a base library for mission critical voice quality of experience measurement methods. This package contains core code for QoE measurements used ### SDNist: Synthetic Data Report Tool This iteration of the SDNist library (v1. 4) is focused on generating reports that compare synthetic data to the NIST Diverse Community Excerpts .
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