“The Future of Mission Critical Communications” by Mr Paul Steinberg, CTO Motorola Solutions
Organized by: HKIE Electronics Division
Supported by: IET ECS, IEEE Consumer Electronics Chapter Hong Kong, CIE Hong Kong, Smart City Consortium (SCC)
Moderator: Ir Prof. Jolly Wong
Date: 15 May 2017 Monday
Time: 6:30pm refreshment, 7:00pm-8:00pm seminar
Venue: Rm LT-4, AC1, City University Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong
Fees: Free of charge
Language: English
No. of Participants: 100 (first come first serve)
Deadline of Registration: 10 May 2017
Enquiry: Ir. Dr KF Tsang (Email: ee330015@cityu.edu.hk)
Description:
Mr. Paul Steinberg is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola Solutions. In this talk, Paul will address engineers with his technical insights and worldwide customers' experiences on Mission Critical Communications. Paul will address key topics (including but not limited to): State-of-the-art technology for public safety, Next Generation Mobile Intelligence envisions, Mobile intelligence, and the role of the professional bodies. Topics to be addressed as follows:
1) Global trends
State-of-the-Art Technology, Smart Public Safety and use of Big Data in a highly secured cyberspace.
2) Where is Hong Kong heading?
Mobile intelligence, Engaging citizens, Empowering officers.
3) Vision for the future
Next Generation Mobile Intelligence - from mission critical communications to mission critical intelligence.
4) The role professional bodies can play (e.g. HKIE/ IET)
Bridge current gap between hardware and software engineering and groom future talent to keep abreast of technological advancements.
Biography of Paul Steinberg
Mr. Paul Steinberg serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola Solutions, Inc. Mr. Steinberg oversees development and execution of the company’s technology strategy, vision and venture investments, driving focused innovation around market needs and customer challenges to enable the future of public safety and enterprise. He joined Motorola in 1992 and most recently was Chief Architect for integrated command and control and private broadband solutions for public safety systems. Prior to that, he served as Chief Architect for carrier wireless infrastructure broadband products (LTE) in Motorola’s wireless networks business. Before joining Motorola, he was a distinguished member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He serves on technical advisory boards for multiple companies that supply products and technologies to the networking industry. He is a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technical Advisory Council and served on the FCC’s Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability. In addition, he is a member of Motorola Solutions’ Science Advisory Board Associates (SABA) and holds several U.S. patents. He was recognized with the Motorola Dan Noble Fellow award in 2004 and named a Motorola Fellow in 2006. Mr. Steinberg serves on the board of trustees for Adler Planetarium and for Chicago’s public television station WTTW. Mr. Steinberg earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Illinois Benedictine College and completed graduate studies in computer science at the University of Illinois.
Report
Ms. Cheung Ka Yi, Kim
Report of Technical Seminar on the Future of Mission Critical Communicaitons
The seminar on the Future of Mission Critical Communications was held at the City University of Hong Kong on 15 May 2017.
Mr. Paul Steinberg, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola Solutions, introduced the next generation of the mobile intelligence and how does the technology help turn our cities to smarter and safer.
Mr. Steinberg stated that for the mission critical workers such as police and firefighters, the key words are “eyes up, hands free”. However, the communication devices available in the market are “eyes down, hands busy”. It is important to find a new way of communication that will not just base on voice or text. In the future trend, the transmission of data will be based on artificial intelligence together with virtual reality headsets and intuitive mobile apps that will be able to interact with the users to make sense of data available to them.
With tons of data on hand, the future communication shall not just focus on delivering but also analyzing. Mr. Steinberg stated that analyzing the crime data is not an easy task but it is essential to reduce crime and optimize staff and resources to better serve the community. The analyzed data shall be in a visually intuitive way that is easy to understand and share among the analysts and polices. Mr. Steinberg gave an example that with the CCTV images collected around the crime scene, the system can help predict the escape route of the suspect. This can save the police time and allow the police to have a faster response and with better preparation.
At the end of the presentation, Mr. Steinberg discussed about the change of public safety landscape. Mr. Steinberg stated the communication network is now changing from a self-contained system into an interconnected system, from an enterprise provided devices to BYOD. These changes increase the concerns on the cyber security. The ways to enhance the cyber security are multi-factor authentication, encryption and secure everywhere.
Ir Dr KF Tsang (left 3rd), Ir Prof Jolly Wong (left 4th), Mr. Paul Steinberg (right 5th), the invited speaker, Ir Wilson Kwok (right 4th) and the representatives of supporting organisations.