Motorola Solutions unveils end-to-end body-worn camera solution for public safety

“We are very focused on helping the agency reduce as much administrative overhead as possible,” Rowe said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “We’re linking this very tightly with the rest of our CommandCentral platform, which is going to allow us to automatically correlate calls for service for record IDs.

“That reduces the need for anyone to go in and manually say, ‘This video was associated with this traffic stop … this domestic event.’ If the correlation engine can do that automatically, that’s one less thing that you’ve got to do.”

In fact, some public-safety customers said that officers with other systems spend 20-30 minutes per day tagging video manually to correlate to a specific incident.

Rowe said the Motorola Solutions body-worn camera solution is expected to be in field trials beginning in January, and shipping is scheduled to begin during the second quarter of 2016. Motorola has not announced pricing for the solution, but Rowe said he believes that it will be competitive.

“We think it’s going to be very similar in price [to competing solutions],” he said. “It’s hard to compare, because you look at the full package here—what we’re doing end to end, what we’ve got with the CJIS, what we’ve got with the combined video [camera]/speaker mic into one unit. It’s not always an apples-to-apples comparison … but it’s still going to be in the same ballpark.”

From a big-picture perspective, Rowe said he is confident that public-safety customers will see the value of the solution.

“One of our strengths from Motorola is that we have a bunch of these assets,” Rowe said. “We have the understanding of how to stream video in real time, which is not easy—there are not many people that can do that. We have the integration of CAD [computer-aided dispatch] and RMS [records-management systems]. We have the expertise in the audio side to have real high-quality enhanced audio capability and noise cancellation—we know how to make a device.

“When you start putting all of this together in one package, it really is unmatched in the industry.”