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November/December 2015 • SECURITY TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE 13 www.SecurityInfoWatch.com Some of the prime players in the Houston Area UASI District datacasting project and the top winner for the 2015 Security Innovation Awards include: Top Row ,Left to Right -- Malcom Davis, Asst. Vice President U of H Public Safety, Jack Hanagriff, CIKR Protection Coordinator Houston UASI, and Joshua Adams, Director of Technology Houston Public Media. Bottom Row, Left to Right -- Chelsea McKeathen, Emergency Management Specialist, University of Houston, Kelly Boysen, Director of Emergency Management U or H OEM, Peg Faver, President Consolidated Telcom Services, and Carroll Faulkner, CFE Telecom. Photo by Steve Lasky the deployment of cameras at multiple harbors and critical infrastructure sites across Hawaii, each of which presented their own unique technical and environ- mental challenges that Hawaiya Technol- ogies had to account for," said one of the awards judges. LAX ARCC and EGIS project – As one of the world's busiest airports (serv- ing 71 million passengers annually), and also one of the most innovative airports for new technology adoption, Los Ange- les International Airport (LAX) under- stands this challenge well. So, working with its partners on the L AX Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC) and GIS project, airport officials devised a creative solution to address this prob- lem. The $13.9 million Airport Response Coordination Center (ARCC) acts as a high-tech nerve center that streamlines operational efficiency and crisis manage- ment capabilities via one dedicated facil- ity staffed by both airport and federal agency personnel. "This innovative solution to managing information and events takes a proactive approach to both security and safety," said another judge of the LAX project. "They have streamlined processes and provided analytics to track events and provided situational awareness dash- boards that are real problem solvers." City of Hollister project – Using technologically advanced video surveil- lance cameras coupled with the use of intelligent real-time applications and team collaboration tools, the City of Hollister Police Department revolution- ized the management, resource deploy- ment and information delivery to pro- vide security for its highly popular and heavily attended 2015 Hollister Bike Rally. With public safety at stake, the Hollister Police Department implement- ed a location based social media moni- toring platform that automatically mon- itored, gathered and archived all public social media content in and around Downtown Hollister. This approach complemented the extensive array of IP video surveillance cameras used by pub- lic safety agencies. Ver y few police departments have "truly integrated" their policy and tech- nology layers in a "Common Operat- ing Picture" that brings together a uni- fied command and control system and delivers real-time information to first responders as well as to their distribut- ed command layer. The Hollister Police Department was able to deliver and share all information. . Port of Long Beach project – As POLB worked to create a world class security automation program, the need to store, sort, prioritize and manipulate data became evident. It was determined early in the benchmarking process that no product existed in the marketplace and that no off-the-shelf solutions were available. The Security Division imme- diately started to look into various inde- pendent solutions that could provide special capabilities necessary to accom- plish the overarching detail that the Port was attempting to achieve. Through a request for statement of qualification process and a subsequent white paper and demonstration process, potential developers of the Virtual Port system were identified and evaluated. The team led by Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) was selected to develop the Virtual Port platform. "This project serves as a prime exam- ple of what can be accomplished when proprietary silos of technology are bro- ken down and integrated into a plat- form that delivers actual intelligence to security end users," commented one awards judge. Best Collaborative project – The Microsoft Advanced Patrol Platform (MAPP) is a joint effort between Micro- soft Global Security, Worldwide Solu- tions, OEM, Worldwide Public Safety and Justice and Microsoft Partners. MAPP is currently demonstrated on a Ford Police Interceptor SUV branded to represent Microsoft technologies and partners. This patrol car will feature cut- ting-edge hardware, software, Windows Apportals and Azure Cloud integration. Featured products include: Windows, Office, Azure, Lumia, HP, Getac, IRSA, VIEVU, Smartvue, AT&T;, SuperDroid Robots, Aeryon Labs Inc, SecureWatch 24, Dell, Genetec, Havis, Whelen, Seti- na, Microsoft Consulting Services, and Bloom Consulting. ■