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Networked visualisation

Security and the protection and monitoring of civilians and critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Existing security and public services (police, fire, ambulance and road surveillance) generally operate independently and in isolation of each other.

To effectively integrate and network these services requires prohibitively expensive technology and may not necessarily be achievable.

A fully integrated, networked solution when applied to public security, will allow the various surveillance and control centres that serve the public to exchange information with each other. The benefits will primarily be better co-ordination of responses and efficient use of resources. For example, in cases where police jurisdictional boundaries cross a densely populated area, it would be good to have exchange of information between the two organisations so that tracking of suspects are not lost or to better co-ordinate traffic routing. Extending this to different service branches (eg police, fire, ambulance), an exchange of information can easily determine which sub-set of services are most required when an emergency happens in a specific location to save deploying important highly skilled resources (eg send the fire brigade if there is actually a fire not just a heart attack). Last but not least, in cases of emergencies (eg natural or man-made disasters), networked visualisation solutions allows the local control centre to communicate and exchange visual information with a higher level province or national entity (see diagram below).

Without such a solution, it is a difficult challenge to achieve such exchange especially if the two jurisdictions did not invest in the same technologies or suppliers.

Questek's Advanced Technologies' Networked Visualisation solution is able to provide such flexibility because it is based on standardised data communications via IP technology and it achieves its integration at the graphical (visual) level rather than the application level.

This solution has been developed primarily for military command centres where information from different security class applications as well as different command sectors are visually composed and then re-broadcasted to enable a common operational picture for all command staff.

Questek's Networked Visualisation solutions represents a collection of tools and capabilities that allow users to share video information, visual data outputs, be able to compose new views or contexts consisting of video and data inputs, simple correlation or logic engine, and integrated graphical monitoring tools and last but not least, the ability to display in proper rendered form at any point where the network is available. The following diagram provides a graphical illustration of the above.

Networked Visualisation solutions from Questek provide a large set of integrated graphical and visual processing tools for all visual inputs - from video to computer inputs. This flexible visualisation platform for input and outputs is completely modular and distributed. Finally, this platform utilises standard IP networks for interconnection for maximum cost effectiveness and interoperability. The combination of the above all together in one platform forms a unique ability that allows the most cost effective way of quickly co-ordinating across multiple entities and boundaries that is scalable.

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