VIENNA, Va. - VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that allows organizations to resolve business and security situations in real time, today announced that the City of Davenport, Iowa has implemented VidSys software to enable a city-wide video surveillance system.   This system will improve public safety through remote surveillance of high-crime areas and enhance the effectiveness of local law enforcement and contribute to the prevention and prosecution of criminal acts.  The system will also augment the city’s ability to manage natural disasters or manmade disturbances. Recently, the City of Davenport experimented with video surveillance to reduce criminal activity, improve public safety and fight illegal narcotics activities.  After experiencing initial success, the City elected to deploy a more wide-ranging system of cameras, with plans to increase the number in the near future.  Several initial challenges faced the city, foremost was the requirement for a sophisticated physical security  system capable of providing a common operating picture across multiple vendors’ systems and technologies and, scaling to support the entire Quad City area. “While we had a solid foundation upon which to build out our system, we still had multiple challenges related to large-scale deployment,” remarked Rob Henry, CIO, City of Davenport.  “We were tasked with creating an intelligent physical security system that integrated existing and new technologies, capable of showing a common operating picture for public and privately-owned devices of all types.  VidSys enables us to hit that mark, and provides connectivity among the city’s multiple departments, each with various technologies in place. The success of the project is spreading quickly as many community members are asking to integrate their cameras into the infrastructure, providing the city with a more complete view for citywide security, at no additional cost.” VidSys set about to meet these challenges by gathering the input of the Davenport IT department, the Davenport Police Department and Davenport Fire Department so that functional specifications could beentified, through which system requirements were developed.  Safety officials and first responders can now remotely monitor and view incidents in real-time and allow officers to obtain information and watch streaming video from cameras around the city via computers in their squad-cars. “The City of Davenport provided us with a challenging opportunity – designing a system that incorporates many different in-place technologies and systems and an operating environment that did not have a universal view or capability to manage video from one interface,” said Chuck Teubner, CEO of VidSys.  “Applying our Physical Security Information Management software allowed us to deliver a comprehensive, scalable system that seamlessly brings those disparate elements together to enable better decision making for the protection and safety of the citizens, first responders, and businesses of Davenport.” About VidSys VidSys is the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that allows organizations to resolve business and security situations in real time.  Its Situation Management and Video Management applications, RiskShield™ and VidShield™ respectively, are built upon its Open PSIM PlatformTM, which provides out of the box integration and analysis of alarms and events from a variety of security or surveillance devices (such as access control, RFID, video cameras/recorders, CBRNE systems, Fire Alarms and other sensors and security systems). VidSys has focused on federal, state and local government applications as well as enterprise settings in the transportation, gaming and financial services industries, where the software is being used in a number of the world's largest unified command & control centers.  Privately funded by Flybridge Capital Partners, Motorola Ventures, and JVax Investment Group, principal offices are located in Marlborough, Massachusetts and Vienna, Virginia.

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