Mobile Surveillance

The Zao range of products is the only solution that can do a point-to-point transmission without the need for a third-party cloud solution that could be hosted, unbeknown to the user, anywhere in the world and is a huge security risk. The Zao solutions, coupled with the encryption, gives an extra layer of security and streams directly to the receiving location.

The Zao products include transmission and receiving platforms that are designed for extreme reliability, quality and low latency, even in the most challenging of situations. Also our range of products is the only solution that can do a point-to-point transmission without the need for a third-party cloud solution that could be hosted, unbeknown to the user, anywhere in the world and is a huge security risk. The ZAO products deliver an ONVIF compliant video stream via the Zao VMS Plus product that accepts an encrypted video stream from the field. The transmission units are lightweight, robust and can be easily carried on person. External batteries can be utilised for long life and all units can be managed remotely including going live.

Mobile Surveillance serves as an effective and powerful tool for emergency first responders in a crisis situation. 

By having secure video streaming from the emergency scene, situations can be viewed in real-time by the heads of the department remotely in the command centre. In this way the public safety can be improved drastically. Getting drones up in the air in high-risk wild fire areas, helps to decrease helicopter costs and  - when equipped with thermal camera's - enables you to detect wild fires earlier.

Continuous improvement and training are of paramount importance in the emergency services, where human error could result in fatalities. Mobile live broadcasting can give on-the-job training and support to both new recruits and on-going career development in the frontline of the emergency services. The live, encrypted broadcasting allows the remote trainer(s) to advise and provide training and guidance in the field. Curious how this can help first response and ambulance staff, security and police staff or firemen?

With less human intervention in logistics, more computer intelligence is demanded, often from remote, central command. An economy of scale is required to make the investment in digital logistics possible. One-off deliveries won’t succeed in creating profitability. Therefore AI, encrypted broadcasting with minimal latency, remote guiding combined with accurate tracking on GPS, all help ensure a successful delivery.

In terms of mobile broadcasting, in order to create secure, remote logistics, prevent sabotage or stealing, the IT security needs to be augmented. In the case of drone delivery, we would recommend live video mobile broadcasting for each logistics operation, which would ensure that we can see where the packages are going.

Although many would initially be piloted and therefore requiring live stream, to ensure buildings, electricity wires and other obstacles are avoided. Even pre-programmed GPS drones would benefit from live streaming, to ensure the safe delivery of products.

The way Soliton has deployed the H265 hardware-based encoder results in at least 50% more efficiency in bandwidth usage compared to traditional solutions. For example: a 3 Mbps Soliton H265 stream provides the same video quality as a stream doing 6 Mbps in H264.

As more and more people get mobile phones, the ability to register their GPS location and start using an actual address empowers them to start businesses and raise finance for their initiatives.  The project hopes that corporations will continue to sponsor the project, as they are able to improve logistics to these addresses. It is very important for emergency services for example to be able to find these addresses if childbirth is going wrong. As people get over their nervousness with registering, they can be incentivised for example with a free delivery of a home birthing kit.

Drones provide a logical cost efficient mobile live-streaming for emergency services. With drones you increase surveillance and indeed increase the periphery of vision in the sky with instantaneous broadcasting of footage to the control centre.

This drone activity could cover many roles in outdoor events from monitoring large environmental disasters such as flood control, through to finding or identifying pirates or refugee vessels.

Emergency services all can use drones with live streaming to optimize their work.

With the increase of Artificial Intelligence and mapping accuracy over recent years, more companies are seriously considering taking logistics to a new level of sophistication. With the reduced cost of high definition cameras, parcel deliveries can use HD cameras for each delivery. The 4G bonding system, ensures that live, encoded video transmissions would be distributed between multiple networks to the Milestone or HDView systems, This collectively adds another level of difficulty to an already complex system to hack.

Remote driving vehicles  - a driver or operator can be placed out of harm’s way but with the bi-directional capabilities of the Zao. Video can be streamed from the vehicle to the driver with ultra low latency in a location far away, and the driver is able to send the driving commands back to the vehicle via the serial interface of the Zao. 

Snipers Telescopic Sights - Another military application of video streaming includes a sniper’s telescopic sight.  Video output via an HDMI port from the scope of a sniper’s gun can be live streamed from remote locations back to a command location many 100’s of kms away.

Receiving end - The Zao range of products can utilize AES256 encryption for the live video stream and are fully ONVIF compliant meaning it can be viewed by a variety of different Video Management Systems (VMS).