GCN interviewed Vidsys Founder & CEO James Chong about Vidsys’ work with the City of Cleveland to increase city-wide security during the Republican National Convention. Here is an excerpt.
In a tense election year and a summer of protests, ensuring the safety of people in and around the political conventions is crucial.
To help secure the Republican National Convention, Cleveland officials used video integration and situation management technology from Vienna, Va.-based Vidsys. Cleveland’s Department of Public Utilities and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority already used the software and recommended expanding its use for the convention.
Vidsys’ Converged Security and Information Management platform collected and analyzed video feeds from cameras and sensors throughout downtown Cleveland and around the arena where the convention was held. The platform integrates the data from all the video management systems so agencies can get real-time information and manage convention security through a unified dashboard.
The browser-based platform allows data from sensors, cameras and devices to be connected through open-architecture application programming interfaces and software development kits.
“When you have multiple agencies involved, there are multiple different technologies, there are disparate communications issues,” Vidsys CEO James Chong said. “What we do is provide software that helps solve that problem.”
Read the full article on GCN here.
