First Priority Device Uplift

During emergencies, public safety relies on the ability to communicate without interruption.  In responding to an incident, it is critical that our country’s law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, and other first responders have a higher  priority on the network to reliably communicate and share information.

FirstNet is providing first responders  with an evolving set of QoS, priority and preemption capabilities unavailable to them previously. One such capability is to give Public Safety Entities the ability to uplift the priority of users on the network which is invaluable during emergencies and network congestion.

First Priority Device Uplift API provides public safety applications the ability to

• Uplift devices to the highest priority
• Identify devices eligible for uplift

An example use of the First Priority Device Uplift API is in incident management applications. With First Priority Device Uplift capability in the incident management application, Incident Managers have the ability to uplift a single device or the entire group of devices responding to the incident. All applications on an uplifted device receive the highest Quality of Service (QoS) even during network congestion. Some possible uses may include  the  delivery of 911 call information to mobile responders, patient and diagnostic apps to enable the  timely delivery of critical data to hospital ERs prior to patient arrival, real time interactive and communication apps to collaborate and share data, machine-to-machine apps, and many more.

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