Police / Law Enforcement, Ultra Low Bandwidth, Wireless, Outdoor, Mobile, and Covert Digital Video Surveillance Systems

Boundless' Many Benefits

• Premium products with many labor-saving features
• Products are fully custom-preconfigured and unusually easy to install and use
• Phenomenal customer support
• View live and recorded video on smartphones and tablets, and control PTZ cameras by simply touching live video
• Built to last, with a low power cooling system that NASA helped us design
• Versatile products enable each one to serve many applications
• Solve today's and tomorrow's cellular data plan bandwidth limitations
• Works where other systems don't due to network bandwidth and routability limitations
• Works even with severely degraded and damaged, cellular and other wireless networks
• Remote access to both live and recorded video, and PTZ camera control, via the Internet
• Internally records higher quality video evidence than can be sent live to a distant video recorder via a wireless, wide area network, and for long periods of time before over-writing
• Motion search engine searches hours of video in seconds, and recorded video can be viewed at up to 8X normal speed, even over the air, slashing the time required to review many segments or long periods of recorded video
• Support team viewing; multiple distant users can view live and recorded video simultaneously and without affecting the quality of video being recorded
• System uses ultra low bandwidth and Internet protocols, and is highly optimized for use with public and private, bandwidth-limited, wired and wireless, wide area, IP-data networks
• Uses bandwidth-saving video on demand with near-camera recording of many different digital video streams per camera, not bandwidth-hogging video streaming with central recording of a single video stream
• Boundless' outdoor video pods are complete systems with two internal PTZ cameras, Boundless' ultra low bandwidth, Multi-Stream Video Server with long internal recording, many-different-stream communications and recording system, management VPN, dual-chamber heat exchanger, shutdown-UPS, cellular modem and more, Boundless' outdoor video servers are the same but without internal cameras
• Robust thermal management system with dual-chamber heat exchanger cools internal equipment without exposing it to dust, moisture and airborne pollutants in ambient air
• Boundless' optional Event Broadcast Media Server provides live and recorded video (not just snapshots) in a browser on most smartphones, tablets and desktop computers, without requiring installation of a custom executable on the viewing devices, and supports team viewing by mobile task forces without burdening the video source's uplink
• Helps users avoid violating cellular wireless Internet Service Providers' Fair Usage Bandwidth Policies, helping avoid service throttling or termination, over-limit bandwidth usage fees, and degradation of ability to record video
• Optionally supports municipalities' use of restrictive Internet access procedures that block access to dynamic IP addresses of outdoor and mobile video systems
• Much more than a video system, optional hardware support for WiFi Wi-Fi Smartphone Detection of smartphones' continuous attempts to find hotspots, and thereby to detect presence of smartphones and, with images, determine user's identity or vehicle, and trigger notification of law enforcement that possible subjects are near cameras
• Used with cellular networks on five continents, including firewalled GSM networks; Inmarsat, Iridium and VSAT satellite networks; and WiFi, WiMAX and mesh networks
• Designed, and custom-built and -configured in America by a woman-owned, small business since 2003

Overview of Boundless' Ultra Low Bandwidth Backhaul, IP-Based System

In covert video surveillance, high quality recorded video is often important evidence and has a major impact on the direction of on-going investigations. If the highest quality recorded video is important as evidence, then the video must be recorded near the camera rather than being sent live over a public wide area network to a distant digital video recorder. Boundless’ outdoor systems-in-a-box internally record better video than can be sent live, and do so regardless of changes, and resulting Internet connection dropouts, in dynamic IP addresses.

In contrast, IP cameras that stream video to distant video recorders were designed for use on high speed, wired local area networks. Such networks have low packet loss, low latency and fixed IP addresses, not relatively slow, wide area networks where packet loss and latency are orders of magnitude higher, speed varies widely and constantly, and frequent changes in dynamic IP addresses cause dropouts in video recording.

The following drawings give details of Public Safety applications of Boundless' advanced IP-based, ultra low bandwidth, wireless digital video surveillance system:

Boundless' Outdoor Products: Wireless, IP-Based, Pole-Mount, Dual-Camera, Pole-Camera, Systems-in-a-Box with Long Internal Recording

In outdoor video surveillance, high quality recorded video is often important evidence and has a major impact on the direction of on-going investigations. If the highest quality recorded video is important as evidence, then the video must be recorded near the camera rather than being sent live over a public wide area network to a distant network video recorder.

Boundless’ ultra low bandwidth, dual-camera, outdoor systems-in-a-box internally record better video than can be sent live, with long storage duration. Internal video recording is independent of the number of viewers, and of periodic changes, and resulting Internet connection dropouts, in dynamic IP addresses. And, Boundless' PTZ control is optimized for use with wireless, wide area networks. The dual cameras enable users to have simultaneous wide-angle, situation-assessment and closeup views, solving the "where do I point the camera ?" problem.

In contrast, many outdoor pole-camera systems, in an effort to simplify construction and reduce cost, contain nothing more than a single IP camera and a cellular modem.

However, IP cameras that continuously stream video to distant network video recorders were designed for use on high speed, wired local area networks. The speed of a local area network is many times the data rate required for the video and there is no limit on the amount of data that can be transferred each month. Such wired local area networks have low packet loss, low latency and fixed IP addresses, unlike much slower, wireless wide area networks, such as cellular networks, where packet loss and latency are orders of magnitude higher, speed varies widely, constantly, and unpredictably, and periodic changes in dynamic IP addresses cause dropouts in distant video recording. And, the uplink speed of wide area networks, such as cellular networks, even when no one is viewing the live video, is not even high enough to carry a single video stream at the data rate required for best-quality distant recording. Frame rate can slow to a crawl when there are multiple remote viewers, or when a PTZ camera is moved, and a customer can use his or her month's entire quota of cellular data in only a day or two, risking throttling of communications speed and further degradation of the video.

	Frequently asked questions about how Boundless' ultra low bandwidth, outdoor digital video surveillance system solves problems other systems don't
	Boundless' Multi-Stream Advantage (2 pages)
	Competitive Analysis of Boundless' Outdoor Products: Pole-Mount Dual-Camera Systems-in-a-box with Internal Recording (10 pages)
	NEW: flyer for Boundless' Covert Digital Video Surveillance System with Cellular Wireless in Traffic Road Cone, battery-powered, outdoor system is deployed in 60 seconds and requires no wires or poles. It contains concealed fixed and PTZ cameras, Boundless' ultra low bandwidth, Multi-Stream Video Server™ with long internal recording, industrial grade cellular modem and batteries.
	NEW: flyer for Boundless' Rapid Deployment Covert Traffic Barrel Wireless Digital Video Surveillance System Kit with Smartphone WiFi Monitoring. Battery-powered, outdoor system is deployed in mere minutes and requires no wires or poles.
	NEW: system block diagram for Boundless' Outdoor Transcoding Video Server™ provides rapidly deployed, ultra low bandwidth backhaul, ultra low power, wireless, outdoor digital video surveillance base station (no internal cameras)
	NEW: flyer for Boundless' Outdoor Transcoding Video Server™ provides a Swiss Army Knife for Video Surveillance in the form of an ultra low bandwidth, outdoor video base station for CCTV- and wireless IP-PTZ cameras
	NEW: Boundless' Transcoding Outdoor View™ has two internal PTZ cameras and provides ultra low bandwidth, outdoor video base station for internal CCTV and external wireless IP-cameras, near-camera digital video mass storage, and Rapid Event Notification
	system block diagram for Boundless' Outdoor View™, outdoor, IP-based, utility pole-mounted, dual-camera, wireless, covert digital video surveillance system-in-a-box with built-in, many-stream, network video recorder (NVR), industrial grade cellular modem, and two concealed, built-in PTZ cameras, which solves the, Where do I point the camera?, problem
	flyer for Boundless' Outdoor View™ utility pole-mounted, dual-camera, covert wireless digital video surveillance system-in-a-box with internal recording
	system block diagram for Boundless' PanoView™, outdoor, IP-based, utility pole-mounted, dual-camera, wireless, semi-covert digital video surveillance system-in-a-box, with built-in, many-stream network video recorder (NVR) and two built-in PTZ cameras with exposed domes for widest field of view
	flyer for Boundless' PanoView™ pole-mount dual-camera system-in-a-box with internal recording

Overview of Boundless' Ultra Low Bandwidth, Mobile, IP-Based, In-Vehicle System

With Boundless' ultra low bandwidth, Mobile Multi-Stream Video Server™, no officer in the field in or near his/her vehicle need be alone again.

Others' mobile, in-vehicle video surveillamce systems only attempt to protect a police department's or school district's liability, not officers' or student' safety. They merely record a camera that looks through the front windshield or within the vehicle, and, with some difficulty, enable the recorded video to be viewed only after the vehicle returns to the depot. In the case of a police car, the officer must aim the camera before leaving the vehicle, and be careful not to step out of the camera's field of view, whose typical wide view misses details. The lack of real-time, real-time remote access to the live and recorded video by HQ and mobile officers does nothing to protect the safety of the officer or passenger in the field.

In contrast, Boundless' ultra low bandwidth backhaul, in-vehicle system not only helps protect Departments' liability, it also helps protect officers and passengers in the field in real time, when they need it the most. One or more PTZ cameras in the vehicle or on the roof can be viewed and controlled remotely live, in real time, by multiple members of a task force, turning each patrol car into a mobile video surveillance unit. Optionally, live and recorded video from officers' wireless helmet cameras can also be viewed remotely. All video is recorded in the vehicle with better quality than can be sent live over a wireless wide area network, and is instantly available while the vehicle is still in the field.

Unmanned surveillance vehicles with continuous, simultaneous, 360-degree panoramic and closeups views via the Internet can also be provided. Optionally, a "sleep" mode conserves battery charge, and the vehicle's engine can be started and stopped remotely to recharge the vehicle's battery.

Law-Enforcement Related Press Releases

	Jan. 28, 2009: Boundless' Nail-and-Go™ System-in-a-Box for Emergencies
	Sept. 17, 2008: Boundless helps Clinton, CT, Police Department protect Field of Flags War Memorial
	Feb. 2008: Boundless at DoJ / IACP Video Surveillance for Public Safety Symposium in San Diego
	Jan. 18, 2008: Boundless develops Nail-and-Go™, first ultra low bandwidth, cellular wireless pole-mount camera system
	June 26, 2006: Boundless Security Systems, Inc., Develops First LIVE In-Car Mobile Vehicle Digital Video Surveillance System to Help Protect Police Officers' Lives, article on Officer.com
	May 21, 2006: Boundless shows new live, real-time, life-saving wireless Public Safety mobile video technology. Document... Demonstration (animated series of screen capture shots)...

Technology Comparison

The following drawings compare Boundless' unique, ultra low bandwidth, IP-based technology to CCTV-based systems and conventional IP-based systems:

White Papers

Discontinued Models

	Boundless' semi-covert, Nail-and-Go™, outdoor, IP-based, digital, wide area wireless, pole-mount camera system with built-in many-stream, network video recorder (NVR) and two built-in cameras both with 360-degree viewing (replaced by smaller PanoView)
	Flyer for Boundless' Nail-and-Go™ pole-mount dual-camera system-in-a-box with internal recording (replaced by smaller PanoView)