30 Sep 09 Live Video Feed Software Part of G20 Summit Security Monitoring Plan

SSI Knowledge Center Inc. has created software that is designed to give police and security professionals working to ensure the safety of leaders meeting for the G20 summit in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The software will offer a live view of Pittsburg streets so that authorities will be able to manage any troubles that could arise since that has been a case with past summits that protesters have demonstrated against.

The software is part of a $2.9 million dollar five year contract the Knowledge Center was awarded by the Southwest Regional Counterterrorism Task Force in 2006. The tool is expected to be used on a daily basis and is a first of its kind being put to use not only in Pittsburg, but in the security software industry in general. The software provides what is being termed ’situational awareness’ and will require a wide array of technicians
as well as 500 individuals from various state, local and federal agencies to keep it running throughout the course of the event.

Along with GIS mapping capabilities to track humans and vehicles from agents’ smart phones, dispatchers will be able to receive real time information on incidents such as fuel spills, train derailments and other incidents. They will even be able to drill down to very specific areas anywhere in the project’s 9,550 square mile 13 county Pittsburgh region.