Data911 introduces BX1 body-worn camera that integrates into company’s Verus video solution

This philosophy of allowing public-safety customers to manage their video according to their policies also is reflected in the fact that Data911 does not encrypt the video, although the information is secured while being transported throughout the system, Baumann said.

“Our videos themselves are not encrypted,” he said. “So, if something happened and Data911 was blown off of the face of the earth, the videos would still be playable.

“We secure the video through a chain of custody, but the video file itself is not encrypted. It’s our thought that it’s the client’s video, and we don’t want to restrict that and hold them hostage from viewing their own videos, so we do not have encryption on the video itself. We have checks to make sure that the video has integrity and to make sure that the video has not been altered, but we do not encrypt the video itself.”

Once the video is uploaded, it is put into Data911’s Verus video-management solution, which lets public-safety agencies coordinate multiple types of video—from body-worn, in-car, interview-room and prison-transport cameras—to provide a comprehensive evidence package for a given incident.

Announced at the IACP 2015 show this week, the BX1 will undergo beta testing during November and December in preparation for its scheduled commercial release during the first quarter of next year.

“The price is going to come in right around where other simple body cameras are that don’t have the Wi-Fi, the Bluetooth and all of the triggering built into it,” Baumann said. “In fact, it’s going to come in a little bit cheaper than what a couple of the larger [manufacturers] are getting for a camera that doesn’t have all of these features built into them.”