Posted on 09/19/2021 4:08:53 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Losing communication during a crisis can be detrimental to rescue and recovery efforts, so some phone companies have created innovative technologies to combat communication barriers during disasters.
In 2017, AT&T deployed its Flying Cell-On-Wheels, dubbed Flying COWs, which are hovering drones that provide widespread LTE coverage after natural disasters, like hurricanes Maria, Matthew, and Ida.
This year, AT&T's competitor Verizon unveiled its newest disaster relief prototype called the Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response vehicle, known simply as THOR.
THOR was built to enhance the Verizon Frontline program, which is a unified platform aimed at providing advanced network and communication technology to first responders and other public safety professionals during natural disasters.
Frontline includes thousands of Verizon Response Team members that deploy emergency relief devices that bring wireless network to remote areas, ensuring first responders have mission-critical communication capabilities wherever they are.
Considered the "Swiss Army Knife of Verizon Frontline services," THOR combines Frontline technologies, like drones, 5G Ultra-Wideband (UWB), mobile edge computing (MEC), and radios, into one central command center.
The center is situated inside a modified Ford F650 chassis, which is a medium-duty work truck that has won awards for its durability, quality, maintenance costs, and life cycle costs.
The center is situated inside a modified Ford F650 chassis, which is a medium-duty work truck that has won awards for its durability, quality, maintenance costs, and life cycle costs.
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So much better to broadcast meteorological bedwetting live!
“So much better to broadcast meteorological bedwetting live!”
Get your mother to review your text before posting.
Send it to the Mezcan border. Take some obs. Report. Follow up.
I wanted one until I looked up the price on a basic F650 conversion. A used one was $268,000. Then I looked up fuel mileage and they get what I get towing 10,000 lbs.
Very neat truck.
I did see a pickup in my neighborhood that was one of those dual rear axle conversions.
Reminds me of the Urban Assault Vehicle in Stripes,
“So much better to broadcast meteorological bedwetting live!”
Get your mother to review your text before posting.
Texas, were you born an a-hole or did it develop later in life?
nascar, I did not see any fan mounts for the wind effects, nor an espresso machine nor is there a place for the weather bunnies to change into the loose flapping body hugging breast enhancing outfits for their shots.
Verizon can do all this but they can’t give me an effin dial tone at my house in upstate NY.
To bring pinpoint delivery of 5G to non-compliant graphene oxide hosts...
Seems like what you would really want is a 4g and maybe even 3g because you need range, not speed.
and I am pretty sure the penetration of 5g handsets is under 20%
I invested in some startup once that had tethered helium balloon antennas that would provide cel service in an emergency.
Very pretty wholesome looking weather bunny... ;-)
You don’t often see them in anything without cleavage to the belly button today.
Is that actually you?
I’m a weather bull mastiff.
I took a couple of meteorology classes in school. Liked the sciences. Seemed more useful to understand the weather rather than the differences between pointillism and expressionism.
Glad I did. Tornadoes are not a mystery to me and I can see the conditions develop for them and realize where they are most likely to form. I think that is a better skill than jawboning at an art museum with pretentious people with room temp IQs.
Is it EMP proof?
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