The most important advantage we will provide for our critical communications users is the ability to harness all the information that surrounds them – from images, records, videos and sensors. To synthesize it to find patterns and make smarter decisions. And then distribute it securely and instantly to the teams who need it the most.

Whether it is in public safety, transportation, or energy, our critical communications users are increasingly relying on multimedia. And they are creating information in greater scope than any time before. They are recording and streaming video, accessing remote databases, monitoring biometrics, and reading environmental scans.

We know this is important. But we also understand that capturing that information is just the start. The real inflection comes in what happens when that information becomes intelligence. When we can integrate all these various inputs into a single unified stream. Where data, voice and video co-exist and public safety inputs are married to information flowing from throughout the city. Buses, trains, airports, utilities. We move from dispatching units to react at a moment’s notice to communications centers that can better anticipate, forecast and predict.

At this year’s CCW, we demonstrated how information from city services, remote mines, offshore oil rigs, airports, seaports, and high-speed rail lines are brought together for one unified, real-time view of the city. We demonstrated how our mission-critical radios and LTE devices protect the security of sensitive communications across a growing cybersecurity threat matrix. We showed how we have converged TETRA with LTE in a future-ready architecture. And that despite the complexity of networks and ways to connect – smart devices and instant interoperability will always find whatever RF energy exists within the wireless cloud and connect over the best fit network to make sure that data is delivered. Across radio and broadband, private and public, for any device and any media.

When every input can be directed toward a single goal, we have the basis for building both safer moments and establishing enduring safety. Knowing that safer cities are thriving cities. Where people want to move to, businesses want to participate, and economies are on the rise.

Shamik Mukherjee is Associate Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific and the Middle East for Motorola Solutions, Inc.

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