In-Car Video Management: Technology and Trends

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In-Car Video Management Technology and Trends
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Agenda

• Things to Consider
• Analog vs. Digital
• What Makes a good Video Solution
• Its All about Protection
• Protecting Officers, Evidence, Community and
  Citizens
• Things to Come

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Analog vs. Digital Technologies

• Pre and Post event recording
• Greater reliability less moving parts
• Higher capacity and more compact storage media
• Better evidentiary value of the digital video
  file
• Wireless transfer capability (easy and secure)
• Ability to record additional metadata such as
  GPS, speed, brake, etc
• Better authentication and security capability
• Significantly better search, storage, and
  security
• Ease of sharing files

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What Makes a Good Video Solution ?

• Quality and reliability of the video output
• Quality and reliability of the Camera
• Quality and reliability of the Recording
• Quality and reliability of the Playback
• Ability to safely store, transfer, search, copy,
  archive, secure, and provide sustainable evidence
  in court THE BACKEND!
• Its a Business Driven Solution
• System Support

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Camera and Video Equipment
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Management
Integration
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Data Transfer
Storage
Support
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A Good Digital Video SolutionIS Protection
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Officer Safety

• Training Tool
• Improve technique, SOPs
• Wider Angle
• Allows officer to move out of traffic and danger
  zones but still be in frame
• Zoom Low-light Recording
• Surveillance at safer distance
• See what others cant
• Protects from false claims that can derail
  careers and limit advancement

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Protects the Evidence

• Clear Detailed
• Highest quality video
• Reliable
• Rebuttable Proven Technology
• Secure Tamper-proof
• Efficient
• Smallest file size, best file management

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Protects the Community

• Risk Mitigation
• Protects from false claims that can cost millions
  of dollars and cause bad community relations
• Improved adherence to SOP
• Invaluable investigative tool
• Protected Video
• Try your case in court, NOT the court of public
  opinion
• Out-of-context video Someone WILL record the
  event. You need a complete accurate record

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Protects the Citizens

• Provides Visual accountability
• Higher convictions rates takes dangerous
  criminals off the streets

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Cameras that offer Wider Angle Lens Improves
Officer Safety
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Traffic Stop with Wide Angle Lens
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In 2006, 247 Officers were Killed here
Lets look at that traffic stop again
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The Goal is to eliminate or greatly reduce this
danger zone
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In an effort to improve officer safety, many
departments have adopted a turn-out SOP
The only issue is a normal camera angle WILL NOT
capture the entire scene
A System with a Wide angle Offers Better Coverage!
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Here is an alternate form of a similar Turn-out
SOP
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Here is what you get with a wide angle lens
And what you lose with standard systems
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What does the Future Hold?
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Arbitrator 1.1 Forecast
Combined Technologies
Fixed Video
ALPR Streaming
Video
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The Goal Be able to present an accurate
depiction of an event from cuffs to court
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The Next Big ThingH.264

• Quality and Size (Bit-rate)
• H.264 clearly has a bright future, mostly because
  it offers much better compression efficiency than
  previous compression schemes.
• The improved efficiency translates into three
  main benefits, or a combination of them
• Higher video quality at a given bit-rate
  reduction in artifacts such as blockiness, color
  bands etc.
• Higher resolution as the video world transitions
  to High Definition, a mechanism is needed to
  deliver it.
• Lower storage requirements lower storage
  requirements will allow for large amounts of
  content to be delivered on a single disc.

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The Difference is Clear
MPEG 2
H.264
For a given bit-rate, the level of video quality
or resolution is greatly enhanced with H.264
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