Amazon, analytics firm put edge systems through emergency paces

That third party, analytics vendor Novetta Solutions, markets its situational-awareness products and services to federal law enforcement, intelligence, and defense agencies. Novetta deploys preconfigured software at the edge, giving its customers a fuller picture of emergency environments.

The company worked with AWS to integrate Novetta‘s Ageon ISR product, which delivers command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to its clients.

So far, Novetta and AWS have co-deployed systems in two Verizon-hosted product-demonstration exercises in which pieces of simulated disaster-response efforts were tracked using the Ageon ISR.

One of those exercises was held last November for local, state, and federal emergency responders. The second, held in February, was a joint exercise for the Virginia Port Authority and the U.S. Coast Guard.

In both events, according to Amazon, officials were able to track all personnel and material on a digital map using satellite, but no Internet or cell service.

Part of Novetta’s November deployment involved dynamically assigning off-the-shelf GPS sensors to personnel and equipment. The sensor setup used low-power, long-range encrypted communications connecting sensors to each other and to a central gateway.

The processing engine and application sever ran on Amazon’s EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud instances hosted on the Snowball.

The case study was posted days after Amazon announced it had upgraded its Snowball compute-optimized product with increased transfer speed, added security management, and gave buyers a graphical user interface.

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AWS  |  edge compute  |  edge storage  |  IoT  |  Snowball