Steve Visconti at Extenua and Other Security Experts At CerbAir, Cisco, Cylance, Dell, ImageWare, NetWatcher and Siemens Discuss Solutions - Seite 3

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Ken Mills, Chief Technology Officer Surveillance and Security, Dell Technologies

Mr. Ken Mills, Chief Technology Officer Surveillance and Security, Dell Technologies, shared with us tips to help make selecting on-premise body cam storage and management as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Beyond Body Cams
While body cams are certainly getting their share of coverage lately, it's important to remember body cams are just one component of the video data that public safety departments are tasked with managing. Today's public safety environments also consist of video, surveillance cameras, drones, in-car video, mobile devices and more. Progressive public safety departments must build a data platform that can collect, store and manage these individual pools of data. A common infrastructure provides a more cost-effective storage environment, more control of the data and better security.

2. Costly Clouds
Last month, the Associated Press reported police departments in Indiana and Kentucky have halted the use of body cams, citing new laws that would require the video to be stored longer and thereby significantly increasing the cost. On average, each body cam requires a minimum of 1TB of storage per year. Competing cloud solutions charge over $1,400/year - per camera. For a police department that has 500 body cameras, that can quickly add up, with the cost of storage for body cams totaling approximately $700,000 annually in perpetuity. Department heads trying to maintain budgets and plan for additional personnel to monitor the data should consider alternative storage solutions that cost considerably less to deploy and provide an overall better total cost of ownership.

3. Open to New Solutions
Open platform enables departments to integrate body cam data with the best available industry applications. To avoid the risk of limiting video to a single company's platform, departments should bypass a closed solution as it may prevent other key applications gaining access to that data. Because the video world is constantly changing, an open platform will enable departments to implement the best solutions today and tomorrow."