This document discusses the many factors that must be considered when implementing a body camera initiative for a law enforcement agency. It notes that body cameras bring benefits but also raise complex questions around infrastructure, funding, data storage, management and reliability. Proper planning is needed to address the "video vortex" of increasing amounts of data from advances in surveillance technologies. Partner organizations can help select storage solutions, reduce risks through validated solutions, and provide grant support for funding body camera programs. The document advocates working with ePlus and EMC to build an optimal surveillance storage foundation and reduce deployment risks.

1. Looking at a Body Camera Initiative

2. Implementing body-worn cameras for your force brings many benefits.
But getting started can raise a number of complex questions.
Can your current IT
infrastructure
handle video and
case management?
Do you have
access to adequate
funding for this
technology?
How do you
interpret conflicting
information from
many different
solution providers?
Is it cost-effective
to use the cloud vs.
your existing data
center space?
What timing
makes the
most sense?

3. And a body camera deployment involves
much more than just the cameras.
There are many interconnected factors that
also need to be considered.
EVIDENCE
LIFECYCLE
DATA
RELIABILITY
OWNERSHIP
OF THE DATA
MOVING DATA
PROCESSING
DATA

4. Increase in
device count and
retention times
Expanding city-
wide surveillance
systems
Higher pixel
resolution demand
Emergence of
new devices
Then there’s the “video vortex”…
Over the past decade, advances in surveillance technologies used by
law enforcement agencies are driving significant increases in data.

5. To address this video vortex and better manage data,
SCALING FOR
THE FUTURE
SHIFTING TO AN
ENTERPRISE MODEL
EMBRACING THE
OPEN PLATFORM

6. ePlus and EMC can help you select and build a surveillance
storage foundation to optimize your body camera deployment.
CENTRALIZEDDISTRIBUTED CLOUD
High bandwidth, reliability,
affordability
Massive scale, analytics-ready Faster infrastructure
deployment, elastic

7. Through our extensive partner ecosystem, we
can help you reduce organizational risk by
offering validated, repeatable solutions.
Video management /
surveillance software
Security Virtualization Applications Analytics
 Test to fail philosophy
 Proven solutions
 Reduced complexity
 Authorized access
protection
 Audit trails
 #1 virtualization platform
for surveillance
 Extend surveillance to
the cloud
 Unlock surveillance
data value
 Simplify evidence
management
 Anomaly detection
 Enterprise data
analytics

8. Leverage the industry’s largest and most
advanced surveillance validation labs to test
and certify best-in-breed physical security
applications with EMC products.
+ Reduce deployment risk
+ Reduce support requirements
+ Provide a known performance baseline for production
environments
+ Utilize lab documentation: reference architectures,
white papers, technical notes, sizing guidelines, and
technical presentations

9. Why EMC for
surveillance?
#1 surveillance storage
2010, 2011, 2012,
2013, 2014
Industry’s top
surveillance storage
ecosystem Industry’s largest, most
advanced surveillance
validation labs
Industry’s first
surveillance
data lake

10. Why ePlus for law enforcement video?
＋ $1.2B IT solutions provider
＋ 300+ highly-certified engineers
＋ Expertise integrating network, security,
compute, video capture, and storage
architectures
＋ Consulting and POC services
＋ Ability to design, build, manage, and
finance the IT solution for you

11. ePlus also provides grant support to fund body cameras.
• The Edward Bryne Justice Assistance Grant Program
• The Bureau of Justice Affairs Body‐Worn Camera Pilot Implementation Program
The ePlus Grant Sponsorship Program supports
your grant seeking and fund development
efforts through:
​Research to identify technology-
related grants to which you are
eligible to apply
Grant development to create a
plan for grant submission and
walk you through the process
Post-award services that prepare
you to implement the program
and equipment

12. What are the next steps?
Gap Assessment Operational
issues
Proof of concept
Build internal
executive
sponsorship
Develop plans
to run your
solution
Federal funding
and grants

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