Transcript Sky Trooper Mobile Surveillance System Progress Report

Team # 4
Jonathan Usher
Ronny Polansky
Sunil Patel
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Thousands of casualties and fatalities occur due to
excessive speeding and/or drunk driving
Predictable law enforcement strategies
 Stationary Cameras
 Habitual location of officers
Illegal immigration rises every year
 Rising operational costs (fuel, salaries, etc…) create
increased strain on city and state budgets
 Scarcity of resources in border regions and high
crime areas
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Input – Function - Output
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Inputs:
 Speeding/Erratic vehicles
 Motion along border
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Function:
 Detecting, identifying, and reporting speeding vehicles
and erratic driving behavior
 Monitoring borders and alerting border patrol to illegal
immigrants and drug smugglers
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Output:
 Decrease in traffic/border violators
 Lower operational expenses and better allocation of
scarce resources
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Technical Requirements:
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Light weight digital cameras with high zoom
capability (3 miles)
Cameras have night and thermal vision capability
Cameras run on solar power for the majority of the
day
Real-Time communication capability for each
observation unit
Rail system to support observation units
Control Center receives and interprets all signals
with the ability to control individual units
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Currently stationary cameras are employed in traffic
environments
High resolution cameras are in use by the Department
of Defense
Vehicle database is already established
Technological capabilities to identify shapes through
thermal imaging exist
Yearly production and operational costs of individual
units are well below costs of training, equipping, and
deploying officers.
Info
from
Sensor
Patrol Unit
Dispatched
Centralized
Dispatch Unit