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Video sharing: great networked homeland security tool!
By WDavidStephenson | July 24, 2007
It’s in its infancy, but I suspect that video-sharing for video phones is going to be a great tool for networked homeland security.
As Carolyn Johnson reports, AT & T launched its new
Video Share service yesterday in nearly 160 markets. It will let users who have compatible phones (at this point it works with 3 Samsung phones) share videos on a real-time basis just by pressing a button during the call.
The article also mentions that Aylus Networks Inc. is developing a platform so mobile users can stream video during calls.
Obviously, this new service is in its infancy, but it seems to me (especially as built-in video becomes the norm, not the exception — remember waaay back in 2001 when there were almost no camera phones? ‘nuf said) that real-time video may become one of the real killer apps for my networked homeland security vision. CONTINUED…
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Video sharing: great networked homeland security tool!
By WDavidStephenson | July 24, 2007
It’s in its infancy, but I suspect that video-sharing for video phones is going to be a great tool for networked homeland security.
As Carolyn Johnson reports, AT & T launched its new Video Share service yesterday in nearly 160 markets. It will let users who have compatible phones share videos on a real-time basis just by pressing a button during the call.
The article also mentions that Aylus Networks Inc. is developing a platform so mobile users can stream video during calls.
Obviously, this new service is in its infancy, but it seems to me (especially as built-in video becomes the norm, not the exception — remember waaay back in 2001 when there were almost no camera phones? ‘nuf said) that real-time video may become one of the real killer apps for my networked homeland security vision.
Real-time, location-based info in the form of photos can already be a crucial tool in a crisis, but can you imagine how valuable it could be if that real-time, location-based info was streaming video?? Emergency managers, if called by someone who just happened to be the first person on the scene of a disaster or terrorist attack in the making, could ask them to zoom in, describe the scene while they’re shooting it, etc. Social networks could share the video, encouraging swarm intelligence and collaborative ad hoc planning on what to do.
Like wow!
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