Signal Processing and Communications Society Joint Meeting

Presents

City of Tampa Innovative Wireless Communications Project

Speaker: Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP – Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration at the City of Tampa
Date: Thursday 4, March 2010
Time: 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Location pending. Please check the IEEE FWCS website.
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ABSTRACT: A team in the City of Tampa recently finished deployment of an innovative wireless communications project on behalf of the Tampa Police Department.  The project enables automated wireless transfers of data captured by digital video cameras from police vehicles to police station-based reception and processing centers. The project is a result of a requirement by the Police Department of the City of Tampa, Florida to upgrade the video surveillance camera systems installed in multiple police cars.  The department selected digital cameras and identified numerous benefits to deploying an automated system for wireless data transfers between the digital camera systems and police districts.  These data transfers require secure transmission with automated connection, minimal human intervention, automated bookmarking and “chain-of-custody” data controls.

BIOGRAPHY: Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP, is the Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration at the City of Tampa, where he directs the City’s GIS, Web Development, Web Contents and RDBMS teams.  Before joining the City of Tampa, Dr. Austin worked in the private sector as a GIS consultant and project manager for 23 years.  Prior to that time, Dr. Austin was a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Oxford Polytechnic.  He is the author of more than 60 published professional papers, monographs, books and book chapters.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute and the President-Elect of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association.

NOTES: This meeting is FREE for IEEE members. For non-members, there is a $5 fee. A limited amount of food and drinks will be served to the meeting participants. Please sign up at the meeting website to suggest your food and drink choices. Signing up will also allow us to get a proper head count. Pending final confirmation the meeting location will most likely be at TECO Hall in downtown Tampa with a backup location at the MITRE facility near Westshore Plaza Mall

ABSTRACT: A team in the City of Tampa recently finished deployment of an innovative wireless communications project on behalf of the Tampa Police Department.  The project enables automated wireless transfers of data captured by digital video cameras from police vehicles to police station-based reception and processing centers. The project is a result of a requirement by the Police Department of the City of Tampa, Florida to upgrade the video surveillance camera systems installed in multiple police cars.  The department selected digital cameras and identified numerous benefits to deploying an automated system for wireless data transfers between the digital camera systems and police districts.  These data transfers require secure transmission with automated connection, minimal human intervention, automated bookmarking and “chain-of-custody” data controls.

BIOGRAPHY: Robert F. Austin, Ph.D., GISP, is the Manager of Enterprise Applications Integration at the City of Tampa, where he directs the City’s GIS, Web Development, Web Contents and RDBMS teams.  Before joining the City of Tampa, Dr. Austin worked in the private sector as a GIS consultant and project manager for 23 years.  Prior to that time, Dr. Austin was a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Oxford Polytechnic.  He is the author of more than 60 published professional papers, monographs, books and book chapters.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute and the President-Elect of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association.

NOTES: This meeting is FREE for IEEE members. For non-members, there is a $5 fee. A limited amount of food and drinks will be served to the meeting participants. Please sign up at the meeting website to suggest your food and drink choices. Signing up will also allow us to get a proper head count. Pending final confirmation the meeting location will most likely be at TECO Hall in downtown Tampa with a backup location at the MITRE facility near Westshore Plaza Mall