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Intelligent Video Surveillance Software

Emerging Technology
Intelligent Video Surveillance Software

Product Technology Category
Perimeter Security

Description
Provides real time threat detection software, set up to mimic specific security policies, that allows government agencies to gain the ability to identify potential incursions and catch violators before they become a threat.

Customer Department/Agency
Department of Homeland Security - Customs Border Protection

Program Requirements Addressed
Secure one of the longest contiguous borders in the world.

Success Metrics

  • Security Costs
  • Security Alarm Rates

Results
Significantly increased DHS CBP's security effectiveness.  The software has allowed them to reduce manpower costs and avoid physical security infrastructure investment, resulting in a savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.  This technology has helped DHS CBP catch unauthorized vessels docking and unloading cargo, as well as locate suspicious persons attempting to cross the U.S.  False alarm rates have plummeteed while real-time alerts are automatically sent to personnel in the field, freeing responders to be closer to the locations where actual eventsw occur.

Mapping to Federal Enterprise Architecture
TBD

Key Words
Video Surveillance; Perimeter Security

Last modified at 9/16/2009 3:24 PM  by John Shaw 
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