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OVERVIEW: Schools are faced with multiple threats to personnel and property. Recent news events have increased the public awareness of the dangerous problems faced by educators and students. This has compelled government and administrators to seek methods to increase security, without further straining school budgets. Schools have recently been deploying increasing numbers of video surveillance cameras, called CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), as a measure of increasing security. These systems, although helpful, are limited in function and largely dependent on dedicated security personnel to monitor and manage them, requiring expensive on-site personnel. New advances in Internet, wireless communications and digital video technologies allow the creation of much more powerful tools for security personnel to use in providing security for schools. These new tools will allow a more automated approach to surveillance, provide a wealth of archived data for investigations, and will allow distance-surveillance such that a single guard may monitor a multitude of school facilities from a remote location - virtually anywhere the Internet can reach. These tools act as a force multiplier, allowing existing security personnel to accomplish more with a given level of staffing. THE SYSTEM: The System incorporates existing wired infrastructure, existing CCTV components, new wireless infrastructure, new "system hardware" and "software". The "System" means a comprehensive multimedia surveillance system including a combination of encoders, monitoring stations, servers and storage arrays, hardware and firmware, related documentation and support materials, and the Software, developed by e-Watch™ for resale to End Users. The "Software" provides a comprehensive integrated multifunction suite of applications utilities and services, including: The ability, via a browser interface, to control the encoder devices, configure the viewing screens and view surveillance data. This data may be in real-time or from an archive and it may be viewed on the LAN, WAN or the Internet. It is responsible for adding, tracking and maintaining the video and metadata in a multimedia database. The software provides real time access to events in progress, high speed random access to the database in order to quickly find specific data relating to a past event and can compile specific reports regarding event logs.
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