The Houston Living Lab is a collaborative effort hosted at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, that leverages big data and evolving technologies to deliver capabilities to public safety professionals. The Lab operates with many donations by technology partners, including Teksys and Milestone Systems. The partners helps city entities test solutions until they are proven and allows technology companies to validate their technology in an active environment. Acting as a research and development site that offers live public safety technology used during real world events, the City of Houston was able to effectively test the latest technologies for future deployment or share best practices with private security professionals within the Houston area.