Chicago: OEMC and IBM Launch Advanced Video Surveillance System

Chicago: OEMC and IBM Launch Advanced Video Surveillance System

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In collaboration with its business partners Firetide and Genetec, IBM has successfully deployed the infrastructure build-out for Operation Virtual Shield with plans to expand the network throughout the city. In the first phase, IBM helped the City experts and network engineers to design and implement a surveillance strategy infrastructure to capture, monitor and fully index video for real-time and forensic-related safety applications. This entailed building a unified fiber network throughout the downtown Chicago area, deploying a critical wireless infrastructure to offer flexibility as required, installing hundreds of new surveillance cameras, linking thousands of preexisting cameras to the network, and creating a fully redundant backend system to monitor the video, store the images and allow for business continuity and disaster recovery applications.

The Chicago OEMC and IBM are now teaming to expand the surveillance system and to add analytics that provide license plate recognition, trending projections and intelligent search capabilities to the existing infrastructure. Chicago's security solution is designed to provide several benefits to both city officials and citizens including: real-time video surveillance intelligence for proactive homeland security monitoring; faster response time to emergencies; more effective deployment of emergency responders; and increased travel efficiency through traffic congestion tracking.

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[edit on 28-9-2007 by 12m8keall2c]

With the incorporation of the analytics software, it would seem a huge step closer to the proverbial Big Brother scenario.

License plate recognition, trending projections and intelligent search capabilities ... to include detection of suspicious activites. Hmmm?

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And the beat goes on.

This is the slow dance towards total control. It may take another twenty-five years, but in the end Big Brother will record your every move, from the cradle to the grave.

I'm glad I won't live to see that day.

Good post OP.