Advanced Surveillance

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Advanced Surveillance Acquisition Monitoring
System (ASAMS) Brought to you by JOSH
Transportation Systems
The ASAMS incorporates the latest in advanced
audio/video (A/V) surveillance and target
acquisition. Comprised of a central
evidentiary-based video analytics engine and DSP
camera, accessorized with advanced multi-stage
self-resetting surge protection devices and
communicating over a myriad of network types for
local and remote A/V recording operations, the
ASAMS provides unparalleled A/V capture and
evidentiary capabilities not realized with other
systems. As an integrated system, the ASAMS can
operate effectively in both peer-to-peer and
Enterprise networks. In peer-to-peer networks the
cost of integration is simplified and can operate
very effectively utilizing the field-equipments
video engine, embedded network video recorder
(NVR) and linked remotely to an application PC
running an A/V player providing for live and
archival playback and utilizing advanced target
search analytics. In the Enterprise, the ASAMS
can operate most effectively utilizing the
combination of the field equipments video
engine, server-based NVR and enhanced domain
share capabilities via player client apps for
multiple simultaneous live and archival playback
while utilizing the advanced target search
analytics.
Whether monitoring railroad, traffic, public
safety or transit activities or advancing
solutions for your extreme monitoring needs,
ASAMS can deliver the advanced target
identification, live and archival playback
capabilities you need for fast and efficient
target identification and transcription in one
complete system. JOSH Transportation Systems can
provide the system knowledge and experience to
help you realize the full potential of ASAMS for
your unique application.
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Benefits of ASAMS ASAMS began life as a proposal
to assist the City of Fort Worth, Texas to
monitor and enforce Quiet Zones, monitor gate
drive-arounds and report blocked intersections at
railroad crossings. In June of 2005, the Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA) issued regulations
that specify that trains must sound a locomotive
horn while approaching all public railroad
crossings. That rule also provides exceptions to
those requirements and enables communities to
create Quiet Zones. A Quiet Zone is a section of
a rail line that contains one or more consecutive
crossings at which locomotive horns are not
routinely sounded. This helps by keeping train
horn noise to a minimum in residential areas
while ensuring that safety is maintained at the
crossings. The FRA regulations describe the
requirements that communities must meet in order
to implement and maintain a Quiet Zone. The City
of Fort Worth has nearly 200 grade crossings
within its city limits. In established Quiet
Zones, the FRA regulations allow locomotive
engineers to sound the train horn if there are
persons or obstacles within the railroad
right-of-way. In preceding years, Fort Worth
suspected many train horn soundings in their
Quiet Zones were not warranted, where gate
drive-arounds were occurring and where emergency
vehicle dispatches and commercial transports were
being blocked from crossing. Until the
introduction of ASAMS, the only recourse the City
had to monitor train crossing activities was to
use residents and city staffers, accepting their
personal observations in order to challenge
railroad companies and locomotive engineers for
suspect unwarranted activities.
Fort Worth needed to create a train monitoring
system to capture video of the railroad crossing
area, the train in the crossing (engine number)
and any incriminating train or vehicular
activities, and be portable enough to move it
from location to location to monitor crossings
where unwarranted activities were being reported.
The city wanted to get the audio and video back
to City offices for live viewing and transcribing
recorded A/V content from one or more cameras to
evaluate suspect train horn soundings, gate
drive-arounds and blocked crossings. Because of
the remote locations of the Quiet Zones in Fort
Worth, a traditional network connection to City
offices was not an available option.
Point-to-point wireless networks would have
required the City to buildout wireless
infrastructure at considerable time and cost,
while realizing this would inhibit portability.
Looking to cellular providers, it became obvious
that the video engine used needed to be
state-of-the-art, as bandwidth would be at a
premium in the cellular upstream.
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The ASAMS Solution Shown here is Fort Worths
first ASAMS system mounted at an established
Quiet Zone crossing. Note the dual camera
mounting utilizing fully articulated rotational
mounts.
Features of ASAMS The embedded video engine
utilizes state-of-the-art compression schemes to
manage the bandwidth required for cellular
operations and is coupled with special video
stream controls designed specifically for limited
bandwidth and wireless environments such as
cellular. By precisely controlling the bandwidth,
condensing video before transmission and only
transferring when requested, the video engine is
able to transmit extremely stable video in a
constrained data stream. The video engine is also
able to synchronize video and audio in one
stream, ensuring that they stay synchronized for
evidentiary purposes. An embedded
military-grade advanced video analytics option
enables the city to record 24/7 while triggering
video detection events across multiple cameras
based upon motion within the view of any one
camera so that events detected by one camera can
be used to trigger another camera. This provides
for a wider field-of-view and enhanced imaging
and target acquisition analysis. In
transcription of archival video and audio,
specialized software allows users to playback
multiple video files from multiple cameras
synchronized to the timestamps on A/V files. With
the video engine sitting behind a cellular modem
connected to the Internet or connected to an
SNTP-enabled network, the video engine is able to
provide SNTP-based time synchronization for
atomic clock-based date/time stamp
accuracy. Rounding out the solution is the
Network Video Recorder. This provides the heart
of the recording system and the means for
recording all the content, maintaining
evidentiary data integrity and supporting all the
features and control sets afforded by the video
engine's portfolio of operations.
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Features Specifications H.264 video
streaming MPEG4/MPEG2/MJPEG video streaming
Dual IP video streaming Support for Unicast,
Multi-unicast Multicast Selectable video
controls to include constant bit streams,
constrained bit streams, variable bit streams
and variable constrained bit streams Stereo and
monaural audio Advanced military-grade embedded
multiple target acquisition video analytics
engine Synchronized audio and video for
maintaining A/V data integrity Multiple
synchronized simultaneous live and archival A/V
playback MD5 watermark application for
maintaining data evidentiary submission SNTP
date/time stamp integration 24/7 A/V recording
with target detection archival flagging for
lossless archival content and rapid search
transcription Local and remote NVR operations
Remote NVR application server A/V content
recovery Ethernet to serial/serial to Ethernet
transparency RS 232/422/485 camera control
Discrete I/O capabilities for remote sensing and
external equipment monitoring Programmable and
SNMP alarm functionality 12/24 VDC, 120 VAC
(Euro voltage operation by special order)
Protocols Supported IP, TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, SAP,
SNTP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, FTP, SNMP, Telnet,
Web-server more Additional Information Static
IPs required Enterprise application should be
Multicast-aware for maximum benefit For
Inquiries Contact JOSH Transportation Systems,
Inc. Thom_at_JOSHTS.com [phone] Carl_at_JOSHTS.
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in ASAMS solutions