Scyron, the security and surveillance services company, announced that it supports Microsoft’s Citizen Safety Architecture. That’s described as a suite of software solutions that provides law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and emergency services with a platform to combine, view, correlate and share intelligence data from multiple sources.
The ability to visualise and correlate data from a variety of sources will prove critical in improving public security and safety. For example, intelligence services will be able to quickly update and process all manner of information on suspected threats, whether it be written reports, audio, photographs or video evidence and share this information with others.
Scyron’s technologies – that focus on intelligent video surveillance and the management and presentation of multimedia evidence – will comply with the new standard and so slot into systems being built. According to IMS Research, the growing market for intelligent networked video surveillance is estimated to be worth $1.7 billion worldwide by 2012.
As one of the partners announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Safety Symposium in Seattle, Scyron says it will use the Citizen Safety Architecture as a core foundation for its intelligent surveillance and digital evidence management systems and software developed at its Research and Development Laboratory in Birmingham. This builds on the agreement between the two companies in November 2008, which saw Scyron become a global Microsoft Go To Market Partner for Public Safety and National Security.
"In the present economic climate with increasing crime levels as well as threats to public safety in all parts of the world, Microsoft’s Citizen Safety Architecture is providing an important framework with improved IT connectivity and software applications such as ours. This facilitates a rapid response to combat these threats," said Michael Wilks, chief executive officer, Scyron. "Also, it is encouraging to see Scyron demonstrating IT innovation with orgnanisations, such as Derbyshire Constabulary, that are leading the way in the use of body-worn video to support the judicial process and better protect citizens."
Microsoft’s Citizen Safety Architecture aims to bring together Scyron’s DARC intelligent surveillance and DEMON digital evidence management with Microsoft’s collaborative software tools, including Microsoft Single View Platform, Microsoft FusionX and Microsoft Intelligence Framework. It can help law enforcement organisations analyse and manage the proliferation of video and digital material gathered from CCTV to mobile phone footage.
Andrew Hawkins, Director, Public Safety Solutions, Worldwide Public Sector at Microsoft, added: "More than 300 representatives from the public safety and security industry attended Micorosoft’s Worldwide Public Safety Symposium. By combining CCTV, analysis and evidence, Scyron has created a powerful solution for Microsoft’s Citizen Safety Architecture that provides rapid intelligence that can be shared across international borders, helping to improve public safety."
