Major Santry was especially concerned with putting video on the department’s networks and making it available to those who need to see it.

“The system was set up and online the next business day after Boundless discussed the project with our IT department,” he said.

Live video from two cameras overlooking the memorial is available for viewing on the town’s web site, www.clintonct.org, and on Boundless’ web site at www.BoundlessSecurity.com/handheld.html.

“There were both obvious and hidden challenges to quickly setting up and operating a digital video surveillance system to help protect the Field of Flags,” said Steve Morton, president and chief technical officer of Boundless Security Systems, Inc. “The town already had a number of cameras at several locations in the town, but none viewing the memorial. The town hall is across the street from the memorial, so it was decided to put Boundless’s ultralow bandwidth, video-on-demand equipment and two cameras in the town hall.”

As the town’s IT department knew, however, video has traditionally been a bandwidth hog, and they did not want to overload the town’s networks or its connection to the Internet with high bandwidth video. In addition, the town did not want to compromise its network’s cyber security by opening more network access ports to the Internet for remote viewing of the video by both the police department as well as others, he said.

“This is the case in most outdoor, mobile, and temporary applications, and in many stationary applications as well where remote viewing is important,” he said. “Boundless installed its ultralow bandwidth, Multi-Stream Video Server Compact, and two cameras, in the town hall, overlooking the memorial. One camera provides a wide-angle situation assessment view, the other, a closeup view. Boundless’ Multi-Stream Video Server provides many digital video streams for each camera, with different resolutions, frame rates, and data rates, optimizing video for live and recorded viewing on a variety of devices.”

Mr Morton indicated that the system continuously internally records better image quality than can be sent live.

“Boundless rapidly put together a complete, multilevel video system design, configured its Multi-Stream Video Server to produce video streams matched to the town’s needs and autonomously tunnel out through the town’s network to the Internet, avoiding any network setup issues, to a remote Tunneling Broadcast Server for video distribution, protecting the bandwidth of the town’s Internet connection, and configured a remote Boundless’ Transcode Server to convert two of the live video streams to a format suitable for viewing in Windows Media Player via an easily viewed web page,” Mr Morton said, adding that Boundless’s Control Panel, client live and recorded viewing, and searching software, provides full access to the equipment to the Clinton Police Department.