InterAct, MissionMode & TrueSentry - The Triple Threat of Public & Private Security
In a post 9-11 world, very little has dominated the national headlines more than protecting our borders, infrastructure and citizentry. In order to do this effectively, we need best-of-breed intelligent video surveillance, notification systems and coordination. There is one provider in the ever-changing and ever-consolidating public safety landscape that can provide all three: InterAct Public Safety Systems and its (in-house) partners, TrueSentry and MissionMode.
This lens will provide additional information about this trio's capabilities and the challenges and available resources for homeland and industrial security.
Quick Facts About The Intelligent Video Surveillance (IVS) Market
- The federal government is implementing video surveillance to help combat everything from traffic offenses to terrorist activity to illegal immigration.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's FY06 budget earmarked $51.1 million for the America's Shield Initiative, which enhances electronic-surveillance capabilities along our borders; that's an increase of $19.8 million over FY05.
- The worldwide Internet protocol surveillance market will grow to $6.48 billion in 2012 from last year's $435.8 million, according to a report by Frost and Sullivan.
ASIS International
ASIS InternationalFounded in 1955 as the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), the organization officially changed its name in 2002 to ASIS International. This new name preserves its history while better reflecting the growth and expansion of the society to more than 34,000 members around the world, covering a wide array of services and specialties within the security industry.
ASIS International (ASIS) is the largest organization for security professionals. Founded in 1955, ASIS is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security professionals by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security interests, such as the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits, as well as specific security topics. ASIS also advocates the role and value of the security management profession to business, the media, governmental entities, and the public. By providing members and the security community with access to a full range of programs and services, and by publishing the industry's number one magazine - Security Management - ASIS leads the way for advanced and improved security performance.
Facts about ASIS:
Founded: 1955
Members: approx. 33,000
Chapters: 204 chapters worldwide
ASIS administers three certifications programs.
- The Certified Protection Professional designation indicates board certification in security management, and is recognized worldwide as the highest recognition accorded a security practitioner.
- Two technical certifications have been added recently:
**Physical Security Professional
**Professional Certified Investigator.
ASIS Foundation: Incorporated in 1966. Funds and manages endowments for a wide range of academic, strategic, and professional development activities, and sponsors security industry reports and research.
Trade Shows and Conferences for Homeland and Corporate Security
- Counter Terror World
- April 23-24, 2007
Grand Hyatt, Dubai - ASIS International 2007
- September 24 - 27, 2007
Las Vegas, NV - Homeland Security Investor Conference
- December 5, 2007
Washington, DC
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A brief Overview
TrueSentryTrueSentry combines remote video monitoring, video analytics, and alert motion sensors to deliver unbeatable threat detection that effectively mobilizes and coordinates a crisis intervention team.
TrueSentry is the only intelligent video surveillance system that offers a complete alarm monitoring and crime prevention solution that can integrate with an emergency crisis management and alert notification system.
TrueSentry's advanced digital video technology, which is the only commercial security system that also integrates with public safety computer-aided dispatch systems (CAD), extends a first responder's ability to react to crisis incidents quickly and safely.
TrueSentry's digital surveillance system offerings surpass the traditional CCTV camera or network video recorder (NVR) due to its unique, patented security dispatch, notification, and collaboration tools.
TrueSentry's Intelligent Digital Video Surveillance Provides Superior Threat Detection with:
*Remote surveillance of people, facilities, & assets
*Intelligent analysis of video for accurate and automatic incident detection
*False alarm alerts and alert verification filters
*Video incident archiving system
TrueSentry's Mobilization & Coordination Capabilities:
*Quickly send alerts, video, and images to all devices
*Secure real-time collaboration and minimize confusion in an online situation center
*View location information and facility or geographic (GIS) maps
*Accurately and efficiently optimize crisis prevention and intervention response
TrueSentry's open and expandable architecture is scalable - no matter how geographically dispersed the facilities or security camera networks. Operators have the ability to remotely monitor an unlimited number of cameras connected to the TrueSentry digital video surveillance system servers.
TrueSentry allows users to watch more cameras with less staff, reduce human error by filtering the video for interesting events and automatically alert the appropriate people.
TrueSentry, Inc. is a leader in emergency response and notification software solutions that are tightly integrated and leveraged in our remote video surveillance solution. For almost a decade, it has been managing a global network of thousands of IP-based cameras. This network has captured and archived over 1 billion media clips and delivered them to over 50 million users.
InterAct Public Safety Systems
A Brief Overview
InterAct Public Safety SystemsInterAct's industry leading suite of seamlessly integrated, comprehensive public safety products were designed with one goal in mind - equipping agencies with split second response capabilities for the most critical of times.
InterAct goes above and beyond to collect all the data and loads everything to your systems before sending them to your site.
InterAct's leading edge software applications offer a multitude of intuitive, easy-to-use features that enable dispatchers to manager their calls, incident tracking, mapping, records, database access and dispatching. Its systems are robust and flexible enough to serve nearly any sized community, from large Tier 1 cites to smaller rural counties.
InterAct's integrated solutions for PSAPs include:
E911 Communications
VoIP E911 Telephony
E911 Telephony
Emergency Notification
Management Information System (MIS)
ALI Database
Command & Control
Computer Aided Dispatch
Geographic Information System
NCIC Interface
GIS Mapping Services
PSAP Video Surveillance
Since 1975, InterAct Public Safety Systems has been providing both stand-alone and fully integrated mission-critical public safety and homeland security systems and products.
As the pioneers of the first three-screen E911 system 20 years ago, InterAct's passion for innovation is leading the way to Next Generation telephony, dispatch, records management, and mobile data systems. In the process, it is extending the definition of public safety with unique applications like intelligent digital video surveillance, alert notification, and crisis management systems.
InterAct is a one-stop shop and sole point of contact for everything from furniture and hardware to large-scale custom system development. InterAct makes it possible for first responders from private, state, local and national agencies to decrease response times and increase their effectiveness in the communities they serve.
MissionMode - InterAct's Emergency Notificaton System
MissionModeInterAct's Emergency Notification System, MissionMode, simplifies the notification process by transmitting pre-recorded messages to your entire subscriber database or emergency response team in minutes. But, MissionMode is more than your basic emergency notification and alert system.
Not only is the system capable of sending out voice and text alerts to a recipient group to escalate a response team, MissionMode also allows you to manage the communication and collaboration during crisis times through an online situation center. This is bona fide state-of-the-art technology and it is the only technology of its kind on the market. Plus, its emergency notification system seamlessly integrates with the InterAct suite of public safety products so you can develop a calling list to send emergency messages to affected recipients, which drastically reduces the amount of time normally needed to initiate a call.
InterAct also offers an integrated 311 Non-emergency System that provides citizens with a way of notifying authorities of non-emergency situations without overloading emergency centers.
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