In common with manufacturing sites, multi-tenant buildings and transportation hubs, public safety use-cases involve many types of endpoint devices, gateways or edge nodes and servers. These are supplied by different suppliers and operate over multiple communications networks.
There also users supplying data, and others consuming data for monitoring and decision-making purposes.
Over time, the interactions between users will evolve as new application opportunities are identified. For situations such as these, this article for Pipeline magazine highlights the importance of standardization and a common approach to deploying IoT systems.To know more, read Ken Figueredo's article on Advancing Public Safety with IoT Interoperability