Cloud storage and analysis of video evidence

Expert interviews with experts over several months showed that the main motivation for “moving to the cloud” of solutions for storage management and analysis of video Pasang CCTV is the ease of access to data of users belonging to different organizations.

The research was initiated by the Vancouver Police Department (Canada). The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), despite its archaic-sounding name, is quite demanding in its approach to technological innovations. Specifically, the research report outlines the following requirements for cloud storage of evidence that RCMP has to offer from solution providers:

•     The ability to access information from mobile devices;
•     Possibility of embedding marks (tags) into metadata from mobile devices;
•     Material integrity guarantee;
•     Registration of all facts of access to materials, as well as persons, IP and MAC addresses of devices;
•     Ensuring the provision of materials to the judicial authorities (including integration with electronic dossiers);
•     Automatic removal of materials upon expiry of their storage period;
•     The ability to conduct a search without the need to access electronic dossiers;
•     Stable operation of the system at low access speeds;
•     Resume downloads in case of network outages;
•     The ability to export fragments of audio and video recordings;
•     The ability to mask areas of the video image;
•     Backing up data stored in the system;
•     Distribution of pieces of information across remote data centers to ensure data security in the event of a natural or man-made disaster.

Cloud storage and analysis of video evidence

With all the convenience of mobile access to the "cloud", in developed countries this pleasure is not cheap, besides, operators often restrict traffic over 3G / 4G channels. Therefore, most of the organizations in the study are considering the use of wireless Internet connections from third-party providers.

With much less critical data in regional systems, many customers in the field rely on private providers. ARJIS, serving the City of San Diego and Imperial County, is built on a commercial service that provides triple redundancy. The number of users in the system at the time of the study exceeded 5 thousand, and the number of organizations with access to data exceeded 80. Experts recommend that customers of systems based on private commercial services include detailed technical requirements for providers in the development of the project. This allows you to exclude unpleasant surprises - in particular, the lack of computing power and bandwidth of communication channels.