Benefits for Law Enforcement & the Community

Sharing community owned and operated CCTV & other visual information with law enforcement (and public safety agencies) promotes a safer community by enabling agencies with the information and tools required to best protect the communities they serve.

SaferCities and the vGRID SaferCity Platform uniquely deliver this functionality with the below benefits:

Effectiveness

• Improves CCTV effectiveness and helps make CCTV fit for the purposes it is installed: community wellbeing.

Video Agnostic

• Embraces the reality of a non-perfect CCTV world by providing a video agnostic convergence platform that securely interfaces with leading CCTV vendors and camera networks across cities, towns and communities.
• This is achieved by ‘APIs’ and ‘Connectors’ to leading static CCTV systems but also includes the ability to receive video from helicopters, drones, mobile phones, dash cams, body cams or any video source.

Compliance

• Our community commitment takes data privacy and security seriously and we are only able to facilitate safer communities if the parties using our platform are able to use CCTV lawfully.
• The vGRID SaferCity Platform provides functionality that acknowledges the different sharing agreements that Police have with the community and other agencies and includes auditing to ensure privacy policies and Police procedures are adhered to.
• Access to vGRID SaferCity Platform is highly secure and authenticated by single sign on or multi-factor authentication.

Ability to Redirect to other platforms

• The vGRID SaferCity Platform can not only provide instant access to live & historical visual information but if permitted, can also direct this to other authorised systems for recording, video analytics or artificial intelligence.

Making it Easy - People and Technology working together

• vGRID SaferCity Screen Sharers can make things even easier when the heat is on.
• vGRID SaferCity Screen Sharers enable visual information to be ‘beamed’ to other authorised first responders at other locations or mobile. This is useful so a skilled CCTV operator can redirect their video screen to an authorised vGRID users who may not be in a position to easily find or pull this video up themselves.

Faster, Better, Easier, Agnostic, Cost Effective, Non-Proprietary, Compliance and Evolving

• vGRID is the original, agnostic, scalable, convergence platform with a focus on Real-time Situational Awareness and the evidential vGRID Vault module.
• vGRID is non proprietary, vendor friendly, VMS agnostic platform with a number of API’s and connectors enabling sharing visual information with rules that ensure Police and first responders remain compliant with their sharing agreements.
• vGRID provides the simplest, browser based and mobile UI, being developed with Police.
• vGRID Gateways are non-invasive and the fastest way to deploy and connect a remote CCTV site and their nominated cameras back to the vGRID SaferCity platform.
• vGRID SaferCity Platform will continue to evolve via incremental updates as we collaborate globally with Police, Community and the CCTV industry we serve.

Our People to help you - Subject Matter Experts

• Access to community assets should always be supported by formal sharing agreements, MoU’s and secure network connectivity to mitigate against cyber threats.
• SaferCities’ people support Police, Public Safety and the community by helping negotiate these sharing arrangements.
• Once formal sharing agreements are signed, our job is then to ensure secure network connectivity by vGRID Gateways to connect community based CCTV systems and cameras back to Police and Public Safety.