Inside a burning building, alarms are going off — and the first responders on-scene still need to be heard and hear their communications devices. Outside, fellow responders are conversing as they stand next to a fire truck with its pump running, as more emergency vehicles arrive with sirens blaring. As public safety agencies start more commonly relying on commercial LTE devices as they perform their duties, how well are those devices likely to perform in noisy emergency scenarios?
It’s a lot more technically challenging to deliver understandable speech in active emergency situations than to deliver good, consumer-grade cell phone audio, according to a new report from Spirent Communications.
