Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety

Overview

Police, fire and rescue, and emergency medical services face a growing array of threats to public safety. Traditional disaster threats like extreme weather (e.g., hurricanes, blizzards), natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, epidemics), and manmade disasters (e.g., transportation mishaps, hazardous material spills) have been joined by new threats (e.g., terrorist attacks). Street-level, white-collar, and organized crime continue to present new challenges to police departments. Meanwhile, local public safety agencies must cooperate with a much broader range of neighboring, regional, and national agencies, including other law enforcement bodies, healthcare organizations, transportation and border security bureaucracies, and national emergency management, intelligence, and military authorities.