Alcatel-Lucent to provide emergency personnel mobile access to multiple video feeds

Alcatel-Lucent is to provide first–response emergency teams the ability to view and rapidly share multiple video and data feeds simultaneously on mobile devices.
For the first time, fire, ambulance and police teams will be able to share critical emergency situation information with operation controllers via video and data streams – thanks to Alcatel-Lucent’s First Responder Video solution. Building on Bell Labs research in multimedia and cloud, the First Responder Video utilises 4G LTE mobile broadband networks to convey real-time video and information rapidly and cost-efficiently.
As urban populations continue to grow, adding new pressures to first responders as well as extra budgetary challenges, public or privately owned 4G LTE networks have become highly viable in delivering video and data capabilities to emergency services. Teamwork and safety can be improved, as LTE communication offers improved ‘situational awareness’ in responding to an event.
However, greater urbanization also means more people in an urban environment using smartphones and other high-bandwidth devices and applications, stretching the capacity of a mobile broadband network. Alcatel-Lucent’s First Responder Video solves this issue by optimizing bandwidth use and integrating multiple video feeds and other operational data into one single stream to transmit to situation commanders. This enables the fast delivery of bandwidth-hungry video and data among teams, allowing them to intelligently assess and respond to a situation more effectively, without compromising the overall delivery speed or quality of the LTE network.