Azalea Networks and Dotworkz Systems Provide Eye in the Sky Crime Cameras for San Diego Police Video Surveillance Solution

Wireless surveillance cameras capture video at popular
transportation stops along city’s trolley route

San Diego and Milpitas, California – September 21, 2009 – Azalea Networks, a leading innovator in wireless network equipment and technology, and Dotworkz Systems, a provider of crime camera enclosures for public safety systems, today announced deployment of the first phase of a wireless video surveillance solution for the San Diego Police Department (SDPD). The SDPD commissioned the project as a means to provide better monitoring of areas that have experienced increases in crime. The quick deployment of the wireless video surveillance system met the department’s needs for an economical yet reliable way to address the crime situation and improve the safety of the community.

Azalea’s wireless MSR4000 quad-radio mesh routers were used with Dotworkz’ rugged enclosures along with high-resolution pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras that send high-quality video back to the police headquarters miles away. The Azalea wireless routers (www.azaleanet.com/Products/Azalea-MSR4000) provide high-capacity backhaul and deliver up to 30 frames per second of high-quality video images, deployed in key intersections near San Diego’s MTS trolley stations. The Azalea routers also provide the San Diego Police officers with a private, secure 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network, allowing officers to view and control each camera from laptops in their squad cars.

“We needed an economical way to install video surveillance cameras and capture the video in a quick and easy-to-deploy manner,” stated San Diego’s Police Sergeant Matt Dobbs. “This wireless solution made it possible because we would not have been able to run fiber to each camera due to the cost and disruption caused by trenching through parking lots and sidewalks… so we can scale the network as needed,” he added. The new network will enable the SDPD to better focus on key areas which they wish to monitor more closely with the goal of improving the safety of the travelers using the trolley system.

Wireless video surveillance systems can cut the costs of a video surveillance deployment as much as 90 percent over installing traditional wired networks. Azalea’s patented Layer-3 technology leverages Adaptive Wireless Routing, a distributed routing protocol purpose-built for wireless networks that forwards packets at near nominal wireless data rates across multiple hops with a per-hop latency of under two milliseconds. When combined with Active Video Transport™, a popular feature of Azalea’s unique wireless video technology, impairments to video quality including jitter and packet loss are removed, and the performance of video applications in a broadband wireless network infrastructure are greatly improved.

Quang Trinh, chief technology officer of ProShop Group, the integrator on the project, reported, “The Layer-3 routing technology of Azalea’s wireless solution made the configuration fast and easy… we had the system set up and running in a few hours.” He added, “Azalea’s routing protocol allows different subnets for security purposes, providing for greater isolation and more control. We didn’t have to wait for everything to come back through a gateway, which greatly simplified setting up the system and provided better performance.” ProShop Group is an Azalea Mesh360 Partner in Southern California. For more information, visit www.azaleanet.com/partners/channel.

Last spring, Azalea and Dotworkz Systems announced a partnership to release the industry’s first IP camera enclosure or “crime camera” optimized for video with Azalea’s wireless routing technology. The D2 and D3 Series IP camera enclosures from Dotworkz fully integrate the wireless mesh routing capabilities of Azalea’s mesh solution. This innovation combines the highest-performing broadband wireless mesh technology with the most rugged IP camera surveillance enclosures available. The Dotworkz D2™ and D3™ rugged camera enclosures have been outfitted with Azalea’s Layer-3 routing technology to provide public safety, industrial enterprise, and government applications with a secure, high-performance solution that provides the best scalability in the industry with broadcast-quality wireless video.
 
Azalea Video Surveillance Technology
The Azalea broadband wireless network infrastructure provides wireless video surveillance superior to any other wireless solution. The Active Video Transport™ system delivers the best available video quality for video surveillance cameras, monitors and recording systems. Additional advantages include support for long-range directional links, seamless roaming for mobile cameras and monitors, high security, prioritized QoS to accommodate other applications, and the superior scalability and load-balancing afforded by Adaptive Wireless Routing™. Azalea’s patented technology allows video, voice, or data to follow the most efficient path over a wireless network. For a video demonstration of AVT technology, visit www.azaleanet.com/applications/video-surveillance.
 
About Azalea Networks
Azalea Networks, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, www.azaleanet.com, is the first company to deliver a truly scalable and intelligent wireless broadband mesh infrastructure through the combination of Layer-3 wireless routing technology and a multi-radio system. Azalea’s family of mesh and point-to-multipoint routers works with 2.4 GHz for Wi-Fi access, 5 GHz for backhaul connectivity, and 4.9 GHz for public safety use in North America. Azalea’s solution is ideal for service providers, government agencies, and industrial enterprises that need the superior performance, scalable capacity, quality of service, seamless mobility and other advantages made possible by true, intelligent network routing.

About Dotworkz
Since 1998, Dotworkz has been focused on network-based video product, providing its CCTV and security professionals worldwide with reliable, state-of-the art security hardware and design services. The company has introduced many cutting-edge products, including one of the most advanced outdoor camera housings on the market, innovative environmental controls and high-performance wireless video systems. Dotworkz has been instrumental in the development of critical video infrastructures for defense, homeland security, transportation and private interests. For more information, visit www.dotworkz.com or call 866-575-4689.

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Contacts: Paul Gassett, Director, Worldwide Marketing Communications, Azalea Networks, 314-842-1716, paul.gassett@azaleanet.com.