Maryland & Regional Secure I-CCTV

Video Sharing

Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center2015

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Star Spangled 2014 – Ft McHenry and the Pride of Baltimore

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Fort McHenry using USPP, SHA, MDTA video – Star Spangled Event- Presidential Visit, October 2014

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Star Spangled Event 2014 Facts

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Share and Share alike ...

Success Stories from the Star Spangled Spectacular

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4 video on the Wall TabConcert of Valor at the Mall in DC – Veterans Day 2014using USPP Helicopter & Mobile, WMATA Metro, and

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Concert of Valor Facts – Veterans Day 2014

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• First multi-jurisdictional event for MView which included users from Maryland, the District, and Northern Virginia

◦ Video from 3 organizations – DC, Federal, and a multi-jurisdictional organization

◦ 89 video◦ Users from VA, DC, and MD representing 17

organizations – Local, County, 2 States, DC, Federal, and a multi-jurisdictional organization

◦ 134 users

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iPad Tablet: Map-based View – Baltimore Half Marathon

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Cell phones and tablets - iPad showing Baltimore City Helicopter

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I-CCTV Sharing

Maryland’s Video Sharing Portal, MView, is designed to be a secure web-based portal for viewing live regional video from multiple organizations in one interface to assist primary & secondary responders in planned and crisis event monitoring and incident response. Beginning In 2014 and continuing into 2015, the Portal expanded considerably in the National Capital Region.

Based on user credentials, live video is available to our public safety responders on laptops, desktops, tablets, and smartphones. It includes stationary, mobile, and aerial video.

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I-CCTV Sharing

MView only allows the viewing of live streaming video; we do not record or control video. The Video Sharing Portal is designed to be an additional tool for our public safety personnel and responders to use in conjunction with any specialized, jurisdictional video management system they may have.

Video is shared based on video classification, user classification, and sharing guidelines from our unified sharing agreement. This Concept of Operations was created and approved by the CCTV Operations Group under the guidance of the Governor’s Deputy Counsel.

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I-CCTV Mission

Create a robust closed circuit television [CCTV] system by identifying and cataloging federal, regional, state, local, municipal, and private cameras and their capabilities, networking those cameras, and providing a viable interface so that necessary video can be disseminated to whom it is needed.

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I-CCTV Goals

• To create a robust and interconnected CCTV network for Maryland and surrounding regions to secure critical infrastructure and facilitate the real time monitoring of events

• To transcode the source video in real time to a common format

• To securely share the video from multiple organizations across multiple jurisdictions where it is needed and to whom it is needed:

◦ in almost all applications◦ over almost all networks◦ and viewable on almost any device

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I-CCTV Goals

• Needs:◦ Routinely share video with approved users◦ Ability to push video to any and all users in a crisis◦ Sharing of video does not degrade the originating

organization’s use◦ Receiving of shared video does not degrade receiving

organization’s network

• Multi-agency video shared in multiple formats:◦ Operations Center to Operations Center◦ Operations Center to PC◦ Operations Center to handheld PDA / iPad

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Before 2013 CCTV sharing primarily included Transportation Video. Now Maryland & the National Capital Region has CCTV Shared Access far beyond Transportation agencies.Early 2013… 847 Today… 3383 Est. Fall 2015… 5300 Shared from 35 organizations

Early 2013… 120 users Today… 1940 users from over 100 organizations

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Maryland & National Capital Region - CCTV Shared Accessfrom Multiple Organizations & Jurisdictions representing

Police, EM, Fire, Transportation, Transit, Port, Schools, Universities, Parks, Stadiums for Public Safety & 1st Responders

Jan 2013 through Est. Fall 2015

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DC (NCR)

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MD State

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Organizations that Share and in-Progress

Maryland State:• State Police; MEMA; Transit Admin; Stadium Authority; Port

Administration; General Services; Natural Resources; State Highway; Transportation Authority; MD ARNG

Maryland County/Local:• Annapolis PD; Anne Arundel Co PD/Fire/EM & DPW&T; AACC-

Anne Arundel Community College; Baltimore City PD/Fire/EM & DOT; UnivofBaltimore; Baltimore Co PD; Harford Co DPW&T; Howard Co PD; Montgomery Co DOT and Public Schools; Naval Academy Stadium (Athletic Association); Prince George’s Co DPW&T and Public Schools; UnivofMD-CollegePark; M-NCPPC Park Police; St Mary’s Co

Federal, National Capital Region-DC & Virginia, Other• DHS/Federal Protective Services; FBI; US Park Police; WMATA-

Washington Metro Area Transit; DCDOT-HSEMA; Arlington VA-PD/EM; Fairfax City VA; VDOT-Virginia Transportation

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I-CCTV Portal Functionality Additions

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2015 deployment• Floor Plan Functionality for internal Facility video

viewing based on user credentials• Ability to save Wall and Map Favorites• Basic messaging• Online Password reset

2015 development and 2016 deployment• Add Audit functionality of user and administrator

activity and provide for search and reporting of audit information stored

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Upcoming ReleaseBuildings and Floorplans

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Upcoming ReleaseBuildings and Floorplans

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Upcoming ReleaseWall – Favorite Saved - Sample 5 Screen Layout

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Marine Corps Marathonusing WMATA Metro and DCDOT video

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Screen Shots from additional events follow

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4 video playing using Wall Tab – Protest March in Baltimoreusing Baltimore City PD Helicopter and DOT video

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Howard County Mall Shootingusing Howard County & MDSP Mobile Command, & SHA

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View at MCAC of Baltimore Train Derailment May 2013from Baltimore County Helicopter

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Building Blocks of Video Interoperability

• Two steps are typically required to make video streams interoperable without degrade the originating agency’s use of the camera or the receiving agency’s network

◦ Transcoding ◦ Streaming

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Building Blocks of Video Interoperability

• Transcoding◦ Converts video streams from their native

format/compression algorithm to the common format H.264 MJPEG, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, etc. to H.264

◦ Resizes video streams from their native bandwidth (5Mbps, 3Mbps, 2.5Mbps, etc.) to a bandwidth that is more appropriate for sharing over limited bandwidth with regional partners 192Kbps tends to be a good balance between quality

and size of video

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Building Blocks of Video Interoperability

• Streaming◦ Streaming appliances pull video from the

transcoders◦ Streaming appliances add multiple protocols to

the transcoded video to make is easily consumable by almost any device

◦ Protocols include: RTMP (Real Time Media Protocol – Port 1935 – the

default format for viewing video on PCs) RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol – Port 554 – used

by many video management systems to ingest H.264 video)

HTTP Live Streaming (used by Apple mobile devices for viewing video)

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Building Blocks of Video Ineroperability

• Streaming◦ The streaming appliances serve as the point of

distribution for video protects the source camera or video management

system from being overloaded◦ The streaming appliance also moves the point of

distribution from inside the agency’s network to a DMZ hanging off their firewall enables agency’s to securely share their video

streams

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How can we pull Video?

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I-CCTV Equipment

The equipment we are currently using to Stream the source video is available off the DOIT Hardware 2012 Master Contract (http://doit.maryland.gov/contracts/Pages/HWMasterContractHomepage.aspx BPO: 060B2490022)o Skyline SFS1000 Skyline streaming flash server

appliance permitting streaming of H.264 video (1U Rack Mount)

o Skyline TS1000 Skyline transcoding appliance (1 U Rack Mount)

o 1-year or 3-year warranty, onsite support for parts replacement, and 24 x 7 phone support (firmware updates at least once a year)

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I-CCTV Program Office and Contacts• Sonya Anderson is MSP’s Program Officer assigned full-time to MCAC to

grow and manage Regional Video Interoperability• MView has a full time Help Desk• Sonya has access to engineering staff to help identify and install

equipment needed for video interoperability

CCTV Program Manager and Coordinator: Sonya Anderson, Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC) / Maryland State Police (MSP)• 443.743.0532 sonya.anderson@mcac.maryland.gov

MCAC Director: David Engel, Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center(MCAC) / Maryland State Police (MSP)• 443.436.8800 david.engel@maryland.gov

CCTV Technical Liaison: Rick Dye, Maryland State Highway Admin (SHA)• 410.582.5619 rdye@sha.state.md.us

Governor’s Office of Homeland Security: Tim Hutchins, Director• tim.hutchins@maryland.gov

CCTV Operations Group Chair: Captain Burna McCollum, Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), BMcCollum@mta.maryland.gov

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