Explore how LiveU‘s Video-over-Bonded-IP solutions are enhancing policing. LiveU highlights their secure, real-time visual intelligence capabilities, which enable effective drone operations and enhanced situational awareness for public safety.
The increasing use of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in policing, particularly for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations like Drone as First Responder (DFR), highlights the critical need for resilient, secure, low-latency, and high-quality transmission of sensor data, including video. LiveU’s Situational Awareness Solution addresses this by providing robust video-over-bonded-IP (VoBIP) capabilities designed to enhance mission performance and safety.
LiveU’s solutions seamlessly integrate into existing visual intelligence infrastructures, such as drones and Video Management Systems (VMS), ensuring simple and swift deployment. Utilizing the patented LiveU Reliable Transport (LRT) protocol, LiveU’s technology wirelessly transmits high-quality video and sensor data, making it highly portable. By bonding various IP connections, including 4G and 5G mobile, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, Mesh Radio, WiFi, and Ethernet, the LiveU Situational Awareness Solution creates a single, secure, and robust connection. This allows for effective deployment in remote areas or locations experiencing network congestion.
The LiveU Situational Awareness Solution facilitates the seamless, invitation-only sharing of real-time video, enabling operatives to view live feeds directly on their connected smart devices without requiring software downloads. It also provides low-latency video and data transport from the field to mobile and fixed control rooms, eliminating the need for dedicated communication units.
Key features of the LiveU Situational Awareness Suite of Solutions include:
- Video Return: Allows sharing of feeds with ground operatives, command centers, and invited agencies via secure, temporary links.
- DataBridge: Creates a robust, high-capacity mobile internet hotspot for additional critical communications in the field.
- File Transfer: Enables teams to transmit large files and metadata, such as collected evidence or high-quality images for 3D scanning, from any location.
A typical workflow involves connecting a drone controller to a LiveU field unit, like the tactical LU-REQON1, which weighs less than 2 lbs. The unit encodes video and bonds multiple IP connections, transmitting the data securely via the LRT protocol to LiveU decoders, which can be physical servers or cloud implementations. These decoders can integrate with existing VMS infrastructure. Optional Video Return servers can further disseminate video to ground forces and commanding officers’ portable devices. LiveU DataBridge can also convert the field unit into an internet hotspot for additional communication needs. The entire LiveU solution can be managed and operated using LiveU Central, a centralized management system.
The LRT protocol, a cornerstone of LiveU’s VoBIP technology, aggregates diverse network connections to provide a resilient, stable, high-capacity bandwidth link. LRT continuously monitors network fluctuations and automatically compensates using techniques like Adaptive Bitrate Encoding, Packet Ordering, Acknowledgement and Resend Requests, and Dynamic Forward Error Correction (FEC). These features ensure optimized stream quality even in challenging network environments.
LiveU’s solutions are designed with security in mind, utilizing a point-to-point architecture and the proprietary LRT protocol for enhanced protection. The bonded nature of the solution inherently adds a layer of security, with AES 256 encryption offered as an option. LiveU has a nearly two-decade track record of securely transporting high-value video and data in mission-critical scenarios, including on-premises deployments requiring air-gapped isolation from the internet. The company’s focus on ease-of-use ensures operators can concentrate on their mission rather than network complexities.
Find out more on the LiveU website.
