Public Safety Blog Articles

This quarter’s CompTIA 2019 Smart Cities Advisory Council meeting identified compelling areas of innovation and mapped out what future councils have in store. Every quarter, CompTIA’s Smart Cities Advisory Council meets to discuss exciting industry trends for the next...

Facial recognition is a powerful crime-fighting tool — but how does it work? Facial recognition technology has the potential to revolutionize public safety. This rapid form of “biometric” identification is already being utilized to combat identity theft, protect...

Drones could deliver a quantum leap in situational awareness for public safety organizations. Drones are seeing rapid adoption in a variety of industries — from news photography to real estate development to wind energy production. Their greatest impact, however,...

Technologies like facial recognition software and gunshot detection devices offer security teams and law enforcement a smarter, more efficient approach to crowd management. There is power in a crowd, to be sure — but large public gatherings also present a number of...