Emergency Services
Vision Systems Technology recorders provide emergency service operators with valuable operational benefits:
Incident management - post event analysis
On board video recorders can provide valuable supporting evidence for post incident analysis.
Incident management – Live image transmission for operational control
Both live and recorded images can be viewed from moving vehicles over GPRS or 3G networks. This provides a Command Centre with real time operational control.
Staff protection
Ambulance and Fire personnel can find themselves in aggressive situations where the visible presence of CCTV cameras can act as a deterrent.
High Speed Emergency Responses
All emergency services are required at times to undertake high speed responses. Despite high standards of training, accidents do sometimes occur, some resulting in death and serious injury to both civilians and service personnel.
Video recordings provide invaluable evidence for the subsequent investigations. The resultant feedback in updates to driver training, or in vehicle specifications, can save many lives.
Driver training
Fire engines and ambulances are specialist vehicles requiring specific training.
Vision Systems Technology video recordings can be integrated with vehicle management data such as indicators, brakes, speed etc, to produce a virtual dashboard overlay to the video.
Driving instructors can use these recordings to review driving standards both during training and ongoing to maintain high standards.
Key features
Unique shift recording
A unique feature of the Vision Systems Technology DVR is its ability to record each vehicle shift on a secondary solid state drive (ssd), in addition to the primary recording on the DVR hard drive. Drivers simply connect their allocated ssd drive to a USB port on a dashboard, and their shift is immediately recorded until the drive is removed.
Nudge button – noting suspicious activity
During a patrol or in responding to an incident, vehicle crew may spot something of potential interest that they would like to review later. Perhaps a potential suspect or suspicious behaviour, for instance.
This facility provides a button to record a prominent flag in the database. Users reviewing a shift can skip straight to these flagged incidents.
Driving violations – snapshots
From time to time emergency staff may encounter driving violations from other road users, especially ones that inhibit an emergency response such a blocking a bus lane or hard shoulder.
This facility provides for 5 high quality still snapshots to be captured using the front road camera. The shots are typically 1 second apart. With a GPS antennae attached, the precise incident location can be superimposed on the stills.
Separate, external hard drives
In tight confines of emergency vehicles, it is often far easier to install two smaller boxes rather than one larger box. Also a small, separate harddisk caddy can be mounted conveniently for image retrieval.
DVD image quality at full frame rate
High quality, high frame rate recording provides the best opportunity for capturing useable evidence. (Vision Systems Technology competitors typically restrict either frame rate or image quality). The precise configuration is flexible to individual camera setup to allow optimum use of storage capacity.
Integration with vehicle telematics
The ability to integrate video recordings with vehicle data systems such as braking, accelerator, direction indicators, GPS and G-force motion sensors can provide valuable supporting evidence in the event of an incident. They are also useful to support high speed driver training and education.
Separately configurable live image streaming
Vision Systems Technology DVRs can not only record each video channel at a bespoke, optimised setting, but can also set each channel to stream live images at a different configuration.
This provides the capability to record in evidential quality but steam live images at the best quality available given the 3G / GPRS bandwidth constraints.
Efficient video compression
Vision Systems Technology uses the market leading H264 image compression.
This provides not only excellent image quality but also and the smallest available frame size, which in turn means both longer storage times, but also faster data transfer (important over WiFi or 3G/GPRS).