To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. URITY HOMELAN IndigoVision and 655 partner for remote IP-CCTV monitoring IndigoVision, Edinburgh, UK, a manufacturer of Internet protocol video security solutions, has partnered with 655 Ltd., Rochester, UK, to provide its UK customers with a remote video monitoring facility. 655 monitors a number of different IndigoVision sites, including schools, logistics operations and the National Trust’s Chiswick House. Video is streamed from each site via standard business broadband links. IndigoVision’s compression technology ensures that minimum bandwidth is required to transmit video from each site to the monitoring center. To further aid remote transmission, IndigoVision’s system allows each camera feed to be dual-streamed. For example, video with maximum framerate and resolution can be viewed and recorded locally, with a second lower framerate stream transmitted to the remote center. This low bandwidth requirement also ensures low latency, which means 655 can smoothly control pan-tilt-zoom cameras at any site. (Source:IndigoVision) PBS&J part of engineering team selected to update FEMA National Flood Program The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a fiveyear, $600 million contract to a consortium of four engineering firms, including PBS&J, Orlando, Fla.; Greenhorne & O’Mara, Laurel, Md.; CDM, Cambridge, Mass.;and Stantec, Edmonton, Canada, to support the agency’s massive risk program, FEMA Risk MAP . The goal of this program is to provide reliable, easy-to-access digital flood risk data that can be used by communities to better assess and plan for flood damage throughout the United States. The four firms are working together in a joint venture called the Strategic Alliance for Risk Reduction (STARR). As part of the Risk MAP team, STARR will collaborate with FEMA, states, communities and other organizations to better define and communicate flood risks in critical areas throughout the nation. (Source:PBS&J) BriefCam launches CCTV video synopsis technology for rapid browsing and indexing BriefCam, Neve Ilan, Israel, a provider of systems for video synopsis and indexing of surveillance camera content, has launched a technology for summarizing closed-circuit television footage. The first-of-its-kind technology allows for one day of surveillance camera footage to be summarized into as little as a few minutes, enabling the rapid review and indexing of captured video. BriefCam is designed to enable the rapid review of captured video to assess reported incidents and occurrences, as well as for the uncovering and discovery of incidents that may never have been exposed in the past due to the high cost of manual video review. Municipalities, transportation centers, border control, banks, office building management, retailers and just about anyone using video surveillance can leverage video synopsis to monitor and safeguard their locations and facilities. (Source:BriefCam) Register online today for exclusive online content and eNewsletters Homeland Security Today Magazine | May 2009 21