2. The Art of Where
About G2 Research?
• Established in 2009
• Software provider to Law Enforcement, Defence,
and Intelligence
• Exclusive focus on the analysis of location-based
surveillance data (GPS, Cellular, etc.)
• Clients in 5 countries on 3 continents
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For our Customers
Timely access to critical intelligence
can save lives, improve mission
planning, and significantly reduce
operational costs.
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Analysts Under Strain
• Spend up to 80% of their time on
data collection and collation; just 20%
creating intelligence
• To create an Intelligence Product
from a 2 week track may take 20-30
hours effort
• Higher priority tasks drive the lag
even further
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The Challenge?
• Quickly converting
hundreds of thousands of
lines of location-based
surveillance data…..
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…into Actionable Intelligence – Pattern of Life
The Itinerary
A color coded-coded
visual representation
of 51 days of tracking
data (80,000 fixes) in
less than 2 minutes!
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Missed Opportunities?
Because of the effort and lag,
analysis often focuses on
“recent” locations; leaving
valuable intelligence locked
inside the data.
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Missed Opportunities?
If you were able to predict
target whereabouts based on
collected data could your
Police Department optimize
mission planning?
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Predictions
Our Predictions module
summarizes a targets Pattern-
of-Life to provide an investigator
with the ability to plan missions
(battery calculations,
installations, apprehension) and
coordinate surveillance team
activity for maximum efficacy.
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Manually identifying networks, meetings, locations of interest,
potential dead-drops, and other organized crime activity
through multiple tracks is almost impossible.
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Multi-Target Analysis
Multi-Target Analysis
shows interactions
of targets at shared
locations. It can also
identify potential
dead-drop locations.
12. The Art of Where
G2 Research – Key Benefits
• Force Multiplier
• Faster Access to Intelligence
• Increased Value of Surveillance Investment
• Increased Safety for Agents in the Field
We enable Efficiency and Effectiveness
13. The Art of Where
POWERED BY
Toby Keeping
Senior Account Executive
(902) 407-3161
tkeeping@g2-research.com
www.G2-Research.com
Editor's Notes
A bit about our company….Our founders worked in Senior positions with a major covert tracking device manufacturer and noticed a void in the amount of data that the devices produced and the value that their software could add to the intelligence within the data.
Our clients rely on timely intelligence. Not having access to it when they need it endangers lives, missions and can result in significant operational inefficiencies. With tightening budgets, these are no longer acceptable to many forces.
Analysts we have spoken with tell us regularly that they are challenged to meet the tasks presented to them in a timely manner. Much of their day is spent looking at data with precious few hours left to work on the intelligence the data presents. As a result, there is a significant effort required to create an intelligence product from tracks of data. With higher priority items always being dumped on them, the delay in getting intelligence to those who request it is even longer.
Their challenge is to quickly convert thousands of lines of location-based surveillance into….
….Actionable Intelligence.Seen here is a Pattern of Life from a 51 day track we imported into our tool. You can see…xyz…
Because of the significant amount of effort involved and the lag that occurs, we also hear that much of the analysis on location-based surveillance is limited to “where was he a few hours ago” or “where is he right now”. Because investigators who rely on the intelligence are not aware they could get more from the data, valuable intelligence is simply left locked inside the data.
A second opportunity that we are told that is being missed is due to those in the field not having access to the intelligence contained in data already provided to the Analysts. By not getting an intelligence product back to the operatives in the field quickly, not only are suspects not acquired, but data collectors must re-do their efforts and supply new data to the Analysts thereby creating an repeating loop of inefficiency.
Aside from being able to very quickly being able to get intelligence back into the field, an example of the value within the data can be shown with our Predictions feature. By compiling a pattern of life of a target over a period of time, our Predictions engine can equip an Analyst with the ability to predict not only a target’s location with a weighed value, it can also provide customers of the intelligence product with routes of travel to and from those locations, time at/away from a location, etc. Whether it is to intercept a target, or simply to change batteries in the tracker, knowing the safest time to engage is of vital importance.
Digesting volumes of data on a single target can challenge any analyst. The prospect of trying to overlap data for multiple targets to identify meetings, locations of interest, potential dead-drop location and other important intelligence is simply daunting; if not impossible.
By comparison, our Advanced Multi-Target tool does just that in a matter of moments. Being able to quickly identify meetings, locations of interest and such, while also being able to drill into each, offers the analyst and those in the field with an array of possibilities.
