As the counties and cities are expanding their installations of video surveillance systems to fight crime, the law enforcement departments are facing a critical challenge to manage the systems as their number and variety continue to grow. UniArgus CMS advances road surveillance in Maoli County and Yunlin County, Taiwan by providing central management capability to manage over hundreds of DVRs and cameras installed along the roads and streets. Viewing and retrieving video sources from multiple DVRs simultaneously through a single user interface are among several critical functions most valuable to the law enforcement departments.

To prevent crime and make the neighborhoods safer, the law enforcement department of counties and cities in Taiwan are expanding the installations of surveillance systems. The systems have been providing critical assistance to police and security personnel in effective crime fighting. As the video-assisted arrests continues to increase, more and more citizens are convinced of the value of the systems and want them in their neighborhoods.

The management of the surveillance systems, however, is becoming a challenge to police because they are operated on different platforms; and integrating their data for effective reactions is getting more difficult. Taking advantage of new-generation technology, the police departments of Miaoli and Yunlin County evaluated and selected UniArgug CMS to resolve that issue in road surveillance projects. Today, over 120 DVRs and 480 cameras installed along the roads and streets in Miaoli and Yunlin are managed by UniArgus CMS servers.

UniArgus CMS provides real-time capture, serach and retrive of high-quality digital video. Viewing and retrieving video sources from multiple DVRs simultaneously through a single user interface is among several critical functions most valuable to the police. The police are now able to view, record and retrieve video from any camera connected to any DVR installed in the county from their police offices and commanding headquarters. Four phases of implementation has been conducted to install 83 DVRs and 329 cameras in Maioli’s road surveillance project. In Yunlin’s project, three phases of implmention has been conductd to install 40 DVRs and 160 cameras. Advanced functions of license plate recognition, point tracking and mobile surveillance are also under planning in the future phases.

Setting up viewing sites in communities and or accessing to the video from laptops of citizen volunteers are also options available to fight crime in the neighborhoods. The new-generation digital surveillance technology is helping enhance the ability of police to protect the public as well as increase the collaboration and trust between citizens and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.