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Fully operational at the Air Force Installation of the Future, Tyndall AFB, across 125+ buildings and six control systems for both CE and SF squadrons

Over the past 3 years of developing cloud software for the Department of Defense, we found ourselves spending lots of time meeting the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), before we could start developing. We couldn’t find a ready-built, DoD compliant cloud image, so we built one.

Simplesense is building the Installation Resilience Operations Center (IROC) to enhance base security and facility operations by integrating 12 technologies.

Understanding this critical position in the emergency response process is essential to ultimately saving more lives and minimizing infrastructure damage by reducing response times.

Safety is paramount for a Fortune 500 company located in Pennsylvania. One way the company’s security department monitors emergencies is by using SimpleSense technology.

As the United States continues to explore the IoT frontier, it’s essential that agile technology startups collaborate with military organizations. The reason for this is that developing companies are often more agile, responsive, and cost-effective than the legacy contractors such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, and Boeing Company.

On July 7, 2020, the US Air Force awarded SimpleSense a $1 million contract through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program run by AFWERX, the Air Force innovation team who encourage and facilitate connections across industry, academia, and the military to create transformative opportunities and foster a culture of innovation.

Brooklyn, NY -- SimpleSense, a tech start-up delivering critical response technology, announced today that on September 14, 2020, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center awarded the company a $9M opportunity to develop the Installation Resilience Operations Center, or IROC, an innovative prototype to enhance base security and facility operations.

As we adapt to life in a post-coronavirus world, a central challenge and opportunity is to convert an overload of raw data into actionable information, in real-time, so that emergency managers and operators can make decisions and take action quickly and efficiently.If you work for or are connected to a Public Safety agency, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), or Health Department looking to integrate and analyze dispatch data, we can help, at no charge. Schedule time with our CEO here.

In the United States, the national average for emergency response is around15 minutes. In certain emergency situations like cardiac arrest, every minute that goes by without interventiondecreases the chances of survival by 10%.

SimpleSense and emergency information go together like cell phones and data plans, but the synonymity between the company and its product wasn’t always so clear. Initially, the company built thermal detection occupancy sensors, tools that were created to help emergency personnel identify where people are in a given building. The idea was compelling, and it worked, slashing search times by 25% for two different teams of firefighters during simulations in Reno, Nevada, and Erie, Pa.

Every day, as the first point of contact in an emergency situation, 911 dispatchers and call takers are saving lives. Thanks to their ability to alert first responders, communicate with panic-stricken callers, and issue life-saving pre-arrival instructions, their services are essential to the safety of our entire country. The problem is—and to no fault of those dispatchers and call takers—the system itself isdangerously outdatedand costly when it fails.

According to the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), more than 80% of 9-1-1 calls are from wireless devices. While there is critical information that emergency personnel can glean from cell phone and VoIP calls, these new methods of contacting 9-1-1 has created a tidal wave of data for dispatchers to parse, with no more time to do so.When someone is in crisis, every second counts; having too much data is just as dangerous as too little...

From retail to healthcare, big data is now a part of every industry. Data analysts are identifying fraudulent credit card claims, making the consumer journey more meaningful, and ensuring educators are teaching effectively. Yet, despite big data’s prevalence and utility, the critical fields of public safety and emergency response seem to be stuck 50 years in the past. In fact, the constant deluge of information is causing life-threatening breakdowns in communication.

Erie, Pa. -- Erie Insurance today announced an investment in SimpleSense, bringing the company’s total pre-seed investment to $480k. Erie Insurance invested alongside Ben Franklin Technology Partners in two early-stage companies that participated in the Secure Erie Accelerator.

Erie, Penn. -- When firefighters respond to the scene of a burning building, their primary concern is to rescue anyone trapped inside. That can be time-consuming in a multi-story building as first responders urgently navigate floor after floor in search of victims.

Playa Vista, Calif. -- Otherwise known asxTechSearch, the Army Expeditionary Search is part of a transformation underway in all branches of the military to innovative rapidly to attack problems, like a startup.