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Police Department Embraces IP Video to Revolutionise City Wide Surveillance

IndigoVision’s distributed IP Video solution is at the heart of a revolutionary surveillance system that has had a major impact on the policing of the City of Lansing, Michigan’s State Capital. Embracing IP Video technology has allowed the Police Department to develop a fully integrated Public Video Surveillance System (PVS) that has a vast reach across the city.

 

The system was jointly designed and installed by IndigoVision’s Authorised Partner Vidcom Solutions, the City of Lansing’s Electronic Equipment Maintenance Unit, and ACD.net and has enabled the city to integrate a number of existing analogue camera systems as well as deploy numerous new cameras.

Both 911 dispatchers and police vehicles use ‘Control Center’, IndigoVision’s Security Management Software, to access live and recorded video. The Police Department’s 60 vehicles each have a laptop with high speed broadband 3G technology that allows officers to view and control any camera in the system.

“We're always looking for ways to free up patrol time for our officers, we decided that we were going to take an aggressive approach and get the equipment out there to our officers so they can be more effective and efficient,” said Lansing Police Chief, Mark Alley.

Having access to live video is a major benefit for the 911 emergency dispatchers, allowing them to respond more effectively to incidents. For example, following a call about a fight, the dispatcher can view the nearest camera and see how many people are involved and whether weapons are being used. This allows the response to be more tailored to the incident. Police officers in the two precinct headquarters also have access to the video using ‘Control Center’ workstations.

The City of Lansing Police Department has 250 sworn officers and over 90 civilians serving a community of 120,000 residents across an area of 33 square miles. As with many urban areas, Lansing faces a tough policing environment, with crime reduction and public safety at the forefront. The decision to deploy city-wide video surveillance in 2007 was driven by the need to clean up a number of known crime areas.

The final IP Video solution was chosen following a side-by-side comparison, at full framerate, of systems from different vendors. Commenting on the outcome of these tests, Jeff Kludy, Chief Technology Administrator for the City of Lansing said, “With so many varying network conditions throughout our system, achieving optimal video quality and compression at 30fps were key to us choosing IndigoVision over other IP Video solutions.

Another critical factor was having a ‘distributed’ architecture that didn’t allow for a single point of failure. This was a significant advantage over other systems that rely on a single ‘centralised’ server to run all of the cameras and recorders.”

IndigoVision’s class-leading compression technology is behind much of what Lansing has achieved with its surveillance operation. The ability to deliver very high quality video with low bandwidth requirement allows camera footage to be efficiently streamed across various network technologies including ShDSL’s, fiber, mesh wireless and mobile 3G broadband.

IndigoVision’s unique licensing has also delivered huge cost benefits for the city. ‘Control Center’ software is licensed on an unrestricted basis within the cost of IndigoVision’s hardware. This has allowed the Police Department to deploy numerous copies of the software, both in Police buildings and in their vehicles, for no additional cost.

The distributed architecture of the IP Video system has provided immense flexibility and integrated capability. A number of existing analogue installations across the city have been interfaced to the PVS including public schools and cameras from the Capital Area Transportation Authority.

IndigoVision’s authorised Partner Data Consultants has also just won the contract to convert the 60 camera system in the city’s correctional facility from a traditional analogue/DVR to IP Video using all IndigoVision IP cameras and the new NVR-AS 3000 Network Video Recorders (NVRs).

This flexibility means that a camera can be added anywhere on the network allowing the Police to target particular areas. This was used to good effect when a camera was installed to monitor a particular nightclub that was known to cause problems with drunkenness and disorder around the local area. Police and dispatchers can now proactively monitor the area which has resulted in a more effective police response as well as a reduction in the amount of incidents.

Photo above: State Capitol Building in Lansing, MI, USA

About IndigoVision:
IndigoVision is a leading manufacturer of complete end-to-end IP video security solutions. IndigoVision is widely chosen for applications in airports, city centres, retail, ports, mining & petrochem, road & rail systems, education, finance, casinos, law enforcement, government and the military. These enterprise-class systems improve organisations' operational efficiency, enhance public safety and enable timely emergency response. IndigoVision has extensive reference sites including 7 rail networks, 2 of the world's top 5 banks, 28 airports, 27 casinos and two Olympic Games. IndigoVision is headquartered in Edinburgh UK, with its own local sales and support people in 21 countries across the world. IndigoVision partners with some 290 authorised system integrators and installers in 64 countries to provide local system design, installation and service to end users.

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