Public Safety and Education Supported with Wireless Safe City
Alvarion solutions, including the BreezeACCESS 4900 and the BreezeACCESS VL SU-Video, offer the core technology for the broadband wireless safe city. Municipalities such as Binghamton, New York, use Alvarion broadband wireless to establish fast, reliable and cost-effective communication; providing critical voice, video and data services to firefighters and law enforcement while enhancing education and administrative efficiency.
About The City of Binghamton
The City of Binghamton, located in the southern tier of New York in the US, is the county seat of Broome County and the principal city and cultural center of the Greater Binghamton region. Situated at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers, Binghamton is approximately 11 square miles in area and boasts a population of 47,380. The Binghamton
Police Department (PD) is constantly seeking ways to reduce crime in order to enhance public safety and security for its citizens.
About Our Partner Integrated Systems
Integrated Systems is a New York State contractor offering consulting and implementation services that incorporate an array of Wide Area Network technologies. The company has deployed wireless broadband networks throughout New York and its designs provide blueprints for the voice, video and data needs of counties and local governments throughout the state.
The Challenge
As part of their plan to improve public safety, Binghamton PD increased police presence on both foot and mobile patrols. After the city received a government grant of almost half a million dollars, they decided to deploy a video surveillance network in neighborhoods and business areas and sought a high-performance, cost-effective, easy-to-deploy and scalable video surveillance network. This network was to be deployed in an environment which includes an urban setting with a dense mature tree canopy and had to support both the licensed 4.9 GHz and license-exempt
5.4 GHz frequency bands.
The Solution
Integrated systems, who were selected to implement the network, created a Point-to-Multipoint (PTMP) RF model to enable Binghamton PD to better understand their solution. The company then defined bandwidth, throughput and storage requirements and conducted a propagation and microwave path analysis to support topographic overlays and spectrum analysis.
Integrated Systems selected Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL product line to build the network
because it is carrier-class, reliable, cost-effective and provides a variety of advantages including
security, support for a range of frequencies and high-availability for Integrated Systems
designed networks already deployed in New York. The PTMP network supports several
IP-based video cameras that are deployed in locations around the city where crime rate is high.
Images are then transmitted back to a control center and can also be viewed from any police
workstation with privilege. In addition, the network features real time remote monitoring
through SNMP and real time support via VPN from Rochester, as well as centralized recording
and archiving.
The Result
The impact of this video
surveillance network
has been significant
and Binghamton PD has
reported a substantial
decrease in criminal activity.
Within six months total
crime rate dropped 6%
and car thefts went down
by 26% in comparison
to the previous year.
Furthermore, Alvarion’s
flexible and scalable
network can be expanded
to enable additional
services as the need arises
and as city budgeting
allows.
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