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Homeland Security

Tech Developments

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 12th, 2019

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Tech Developments

DHS S&T, St. Louis in Smart Cities Integration Pilot The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the city of St. Louis, Mo., and the Open Geospatial Consortium, have initiated a smart cities technology integration for public safety. S&T says the pilot, which is taking place at the T-REX technology innovation center in the city, will research, design, and test the Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) as an interoperable framework that integrates commercial proprietary Internet of Things sensors…

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