Video Motion Imagery for C4ISR

Flexible, Intelligent Solutions for Military, Federal Agency and Public Safety Applications

Tactical Surveillance System
Implementing a tactical or intelligence gathering surveillance system that provides meaningful information from a variety of sensors is a challenging undertaking for the military and for government agencies. The effort is hampered by several problems:

Scarcity of Network Bandwidth
Internet Protocol (IP)-based tactical surveillance systems are based on a central processing and storage architecture. The associated video cameras and sensors require significant bandwidth. Therefore, implementing such a system requires a major upgrade to existing communications infrastructure and facilities in what is often a complex and challenging environment. That is assuming the upgrade can be done at all.

Lack of Meaningful Sensor Data
The collected surveillance and intelligence motion imagery and sensor data will likely not be in a common format that can be stored and indexed on a common platform. Therefore, real-time alarms/incidents will not be linked to allow personnel a full understanding of a situation. Off-line analysis is hampered by an inability to efficiently search and correlate the various sensor inputs.

Distribution of Information
Distribution of live sensor feeds and stored streams is crucial to allow decision makers access to the information required. IP-based systems with their inherent flexibility provide this control where traditional, fixed sources do not.

Flexible and Seamless Solution

These challenges require a solution with the flexibility to work seamlessly around bandwidth constraints and the capability to create intelligent video that can be quickly identified, retrieved and distributed.

As a pioneer in both the government communications and broadcasting markets, Harris has a unique understanding of the critical role that video, audio, data and surveillance play in serving the needs of the military as well as government agencies such as Homeland Security. Our video distribution and transmission technologies enable automated, tactical and information gathering surveillance along borders or other sensitive sites and then program media workflow software to analyze the data in order to recognize actionable intelligence.

Harris offers several video surveillance solutions that work together to accomplish these goals.