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Chron.com: Dozens of surveillance cameras keep an eye on Super Bowl Live

Below is an excerpt from Chron.com’s coverage of Vidsys’ work at the 2017 Super Bowl in Houston, Texas.

Houston police and private partners swiftly set up a cutting-edge surveillance system in and around the area of Super Bowl Live, with software that can automatically detect signs of terrorism or trouble.

Thirty-six new cameras now cover Discovery Green, from atop surrounding buildings or posted within, and feed footage live to three main command centers. At a smaller station inside Super Bowl Live on Friday, sixteen wide screens showed videos, statistics and web activity from the area. Green boxes honed in on every face that passed through one feed, and another showed thermal footage of an entry area.

Administrators of the system said it could send a notification if a backpack is left behind, screams erupt, or if someone stands in one place too long. Motion sensing thermal cameras and analytics can zero in on and track a nighttime intruder, or identify the source point of gunshots.

“The upside is we have all this capability,” said Jack Hanagriff, an officer with the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security, who estimated that the job was the most advanced temporary surveillance effort ever organized in Houston. “The downside is we had four days to build it.”

The mayor’s office, Houston police and five private companies jointly designed the system as the structures at Super Bowl Live went up to achieve wide views and identify areas where threats could most likely arise.

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