Most first responder vehicles are full of technology that does not talk to itself. A dash cam here. A radio there. An MDT, a license plate reader, lights and sirens, all from different makers, all siloed. The data exists. It just never lands in one place where anyone can use it.

Hello Smart Firefighting Community!

Welcome to another episode of covering real world innovations via interviews with fire service and technology industry experts that empower YOU to develop your very own Smart Firefighting strategy.

Kjeld Lindsted is the Associate Director of Software Products at Panasonic. His team built Tough Command, a software platform that wraps the Toughbook already sitting in several hundred thousand police and fire vehicles.

One device. One cell plan that already exists. Every piece of vehicle data pulled into the cloud one time, then made useful. Where the vehicle is. What its status is. What it is doing right now. Three simple pieces of information that underpin almost everything in connected emergency response.

This conversation gets into what that makes possible. A fleet manager who asks a question in plain English and gets an answer. A chief who gets a text the moment a vehicle crosses 80 miles an hour. A green light that clears the intersection before the truck arrives. And the harder questions underneath it all: Who owns the data? How does it stay secure? Where is the V2X mandate really headed?

Topics covered:

From Toughbook hardware to the Tough Command software platform
The three data points behind every connected vehicle
Asking fleet data questions in plain English with built in AI
Why a logged SQL query matters for security and compliance
Fleet managers, command staff, and IT in one platform
Real time alerts, from an 80 mph text to a high speed chase
Traffic signal preemption and the connected intersection
Geofencing for public policy and community presence
Data ownership, CJIS, and a zero trust security model
The V2X mandate explained, and where it goes in five years

So take a listen to hear what he has to share.