An Introduction to A-TIP (Alarm-Triggered Internet Protocol)


   Date: Sunday January 21, 2001

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Intro - * A-TIP: What is Alarm-Triggered Internet Protocol?
  
Tech  - * VINE:  What is Versatile Intelligent Network Environment?

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 Introduction:

 On July 5th 2000 the Seal Beach and Los Alamitos Police Departments
 announced that after three months of rigarous beta-testing the
 Alarm Triggered Internet Protocol Video Project has demonstrated to
 be a successful proof of concept tool for law enforcement agencies.

 Seal Beach and Los Alamitos Police Departments inaugurated the program
 in an effort to enhance the law enforcement response to the high risk 
 calls for assistance, provide a much greater security to the public in
 buildings (i.e. banks), schools and high crime urban areas.

 By using the A-TIP Video system, the law enforcement response to an 
 emergency call for assistance is greatly enhanced due to its noteable 
 technological benefits:

 * A-TIP Video system allows a police dispatcher and responding officers
   to view, via a wireline secure Internet site (https) from the office or
   the Mobile Vu daylight readable computer monitor utilized in police 
   vehicles... the internal video feeds from the location where a call for 
   police assistance has been initiated. 

 * A-TIP Uses triple DES encrypted wired as well as wireless spread spectrum
   modulation to route three to five frame per second real-time video data 
   via the VINE (Versatile Intelligent Network Environment) technology relaying
   video monitoring network. Spread spectrum technology, which was invented in
   1941 by famous actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr, is a radio-frequency enhancement
   which takes a packet of RF data and forces it to "channel hop" making it next
   to impossible intercept properly. Spread spectrum technology is most commonly
   associated with CDMA/TDMA/GSM standard wireless telephone networks.
 
  For example, today when a bank robbery alarm is activated officers
  take the proper positions around the bank and closely observe the exterior
  activity and attempt to determine the conditions within the location. More
  often then not the alarm activation itself was a simple error. A-TIP technology
  would allow an informed cautious law enforcement deployment without exposing the
  public, bank employees or law-officers to any unnecessary risks.

  The Seal Beach and Los Alamitos Police Departments are extremely confident
  that implementing a secure, stable, password protected video network via
  spread-spectrum wireless and wired connection to the Internet will be a very
  valuable tool in crime suppression while enhancing the law enforcements response
  to emergency calls for assistance.
 

   The sponsors of this project are:

  1. Loronix Information Systems, Inc., "a publicly held company 
     headquartered in Durango, Colorado, designs, manufactures 
     and distributes networked digital video management systems to 
     industries worldwide. Loronix Digital Video Management Systems
     provide innovative technical solutions, which enable users to 
     manage, control and integrate digital video data throughout 
     their enterprise in a cost effective and easy to use manner."

  2. Litton Industries, Inc. "a publicly held company headquartered in 
     San Diego, California, designs, manufactures and distributes the
     Mobile Vu daylight readable computer monitor utilized in police
     vehicles."

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    VINE (Versatile Intelligent Network Environment) technology 
   		relaying video monitoring network

  The following VINE features are critical to the A-TIP application:
     
     * high bandwidth - streaming video requires fast data circuits
       (i.e. cable-modem) - approximately ten times faster than what 
       a typical high-end dial-up modem can provide.

     * Roaming Mobile Subscribers (RMS) - the police vehicles need a
       wireless system to get access to the audio/video data; modem
       connections over cellphone circuits are at a deathly slow
       maximum speed of 9600 baud. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
       implemented in police vehicles would, in theory, produce speeds at 
       approximately the same rate as DOCSIS-compliant/Motorola CyberSURFER
       cable modems.

     * unlicensed radio bands allow rapid deployment - the system
       operates in the "Industrial, Scientific and Medical" radio bands,
       which do not require an expensive and time-consuming license
       application and filing process before the system can be assembled.
     
     * spread spectrum modulation is jam-proof and resistant to
       eavesdropping - originally developed for special military 
       applications, spread spectrum is now widely used for civilian 
       CDMA/TDMA/GSM standard wireless telephone data networks.
     
     * uniquely-designed repeater feature allows a city-wide coverage
       area - the proprietary VINE protocol, which allows the network
       designer to extend service to areas that cannot establish direct
       line of sight to the network hub by equipping a subscriber node
       with a second antenna which serves as a remote access point for
       further nodes. 

     * dynamic reconfiguration allows a roaming mobile node to be
       detected and then forced to join the A-TIP network when it
       appears in the service area.


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