FLIR in the City of Lawrence
Information Certainty: Speculative
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
| Product Deployed | FLIR United (VMS) FLIR Latitude (VMS) |
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| Institutions ⠉ | Teledyne FLIR Teledyne FLIR |
| Datasets | Unknown Dataset 0097 |
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Status and Events:
| Status | Ongoing |
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| Events | Start (2 April 2018, Documented, , No description) |
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| Managed by | City of Lawrence Teledyne FLIR |
| Used by | Lawrence Police Department |
Location:
| City | Lawrence MA |
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| Country ⠉ | USA |
Description[ ]
FLIR is a thermal imaging company. There is speculation that its thermal imaging facilitates thermal facial recognition. Even if it does not, its VMS are advertised as facilitating facial recognition via plug ins.
LAN-TEL’s talented technician team installed FLIR Quasar and Ariel cameras outfitted with built-in analytics at major thoroughfares and high-crime areas throughout Lawrence. FLIR’s panoramic 180-degree multi-imager cameras provide wide area surveillance of city intersections, major roads, parking lots, and bus depots, while fixed high-definition mini-dome cameras enable live streaming of these areas. FLIR’s pan-tilt-zoom cameras provide ‘eyes’ to local law enforcement, allowing for efficient monitoring of expansive open areas 1
To manage such an extensive system, the city of Lawrence needed a central operations hub to house monitoring equipment and an enterprise level video management system to support the new video surveillance network. LAN-TEL transformed the Lawrence Police Department into a functional FLIR command center, installing a video wall display for recording and live streaming, while FLIR’s Latitude video management software allows for in-depth forensic video review and analysis 1
The system provides local police with vital information, notifying authorities when someone is in an area they should not be, whether that be a public park after hours or a critical infrastructure site. Additionally, FLIR USS server storage units and USS client work-stations were also deployed. The system operates over a multi-server head end architecture. Because of FLIR’s fail over services, the system can tolerate server failures and still enable mission critical systems to remain operational 1
Since its deployment, the FLIR city surveillance system has directly contributed to dozens of arrests in the city of Lawrence. With cameras covering the city’s busiest areas and FLIR’s United VMS aiding in efficient monitoring, crime in Lawrence has seen a decline 1