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T-Mobile brings almost 13 million people in the UK closer in touch with everything that's important to them. That means people such as family, friends and workmates, and the things that matter to them, like the football score, their favourite music and email.
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OSIsoft delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events.
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Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in more than 150 countries.
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T-Mobile brings almost 13 million people in the UK closer in touch with everything that's important to them. That means people such as family, friends and workmates, and the things that matter to them, like the football score, their favourite music and email.
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OSIsoft delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events.
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Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in more than 150 countries.
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Guest Contributor
Chairman, GDS International
Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?26 May 2011
White Papers
Focus Area: Security & Emergency Comms
Monitoring techniques to enhance everyday operations, quality and security in the distribution system
Spurred by the desire for technologies that can detect intentional water contamination, online monitoring in the drinking water distribution system has made large strides in recent years. Numerous communities have deployed such systems to protect against intentional attack. For the past several years, scientists at Hach Homeland Security Technologies (HST) have been actively engaged in the development and deployment of several early warning systems for detecting water quality problems. Below is a brief summary of how the system operates and presents real life case studies.
Regional response
The San Francisco Fire Department provides fire and emergency services to an estimated 1.4 million people across San Francisco with approximately 1700 fire fighting staff. Captain Robert Kuzma is in charge of ensuring that vital communications and IT infrastructure helps keep the department running as smoothly and effectively as possible.
Super STARR
The first system to allow collaboration capability, coordinated planning and response across multiple jurisdictions around emergency operations, Nick Gragnani explains how and why the St Louis Regional Response System is a groundbreaking emergency tracking system.
Protect and save
As events of the past couple of years have unfortunately shown, disasters and emergencies can – and inevitably do – show their faces time and time again. Fortunately, there are those ready, waiting and prepared for precisely that. Welcome to the unsung heroes of emergency response.
Come together
Matt Jackson answers our questions on the latest trends in public safety collaboration.
Source: www.americainfra.com© 2012 GDS Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.