Nassau Police reinforce surveillance from a Videowall Planar Clarity Matrix G3

The nerve center of the Nassau Police surveillance center is an LCD video wall planar Clarity Matrix G3 by 52 m2, performed in a configuration of 8×8.

the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) in New York has opened its new center David S. Mack and to ensure the operability of the body, according to the intelligence-based research model, has installed a videowall Planar Clrity Matrix G3.

Located on the campus of Nassau Community College, the complex of 30.175 square meters presents a high-tech facility for training and research. It is completed with six classrooms, conference room, of computer training, other multipurpose, a gym, an auditorium with 406 seats and a space for emergency vehicle operations.

The Office of Property Confiscation and Intelligence (Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence Bureau) The Nassau County Police Department is headquartered at the intelligence center, that brings detectives and analysts together in a collaborative environment. Here is the so-called Lead Development Center (LDC), a control room whose neuralgic point is an LCD videowall of 9,7 meters long and 5,4 high, designed in a configuration of 8×8 with planar Clarity Matrix G3 solution.

“The Nassau County Police Department operates under a model that uses intelligence to develop the proper way to patrol, to know the crimes that occur at certain times of the year and in certain places, and determine the type of persons who tend to commit certain types of crimes”, Explains Craig Croly, Lieutenant Detective of the NCPD Office of Intelligence and Property Confiscation.

Planar's video wall offers NCPD and partner agencies the opportunity to benefit from emerging technology, according to NCPD detective lieutenant John Kilfoil. “It allows us to grow our surveillance model, based on intelligence, that integrates technology into surveillance, allowing us to use our resources more efficiently”.

This videowall is used to display real-time data from ShotSpotter, an acoustic surveillance technology that incorporates audio sensors to detect, locate and alert law enforcement agencies to firearm incidents, enabling NYPD to respond and deploy resources more quickly.

Intelligence Center operators can merge information from multiple sources into a global view on the large Clarity Matrix video wall, improving data visibility and staff situational awareness. In this way, can make more accurate and informed decisions, faster.

“We can display the data in a way that everyone understands exactly what is happening and where we are in real time.”, clarifies Croly. “From the point of view of intelligence, we are able to work more closely with a situation as it develops”.

A key feature to support both intelligence work and other operations is a flexible videowall system, that enables teams to adapt and manage rapidly changing circumstances.

“We may be using a part of the video wall for day-to-day operations and, at the same time, conduct an active investigation in another”, says Croly. “The default settings allow us to divide the videowall into different formats or expand the most important elements into larger segments, according to the need”.

Brian Adwar, of the AV integration and design company Adwar Video, that made the integration of the videowall, explains that Clarity Matrix is a multi-purpose system with the functionality needed to support numerous applications.

“The videowall can be easily reconfigured to display a large image, 16 smaller images or combinations of large and small images. You can also select the video sources you want to display and the position of each source on the wall. basically, you can adapt the videowall so that the information is always presented in a clear and effective way”.

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