VideoMost video conferences for situational centers and emergency response

Video-enabled situational center responsibilities:

• Local monitoring to improve situational awareness for every responsible agency
• Ongoing interaction with remote objects with immediate feedback
• Connect and coordinate all teams to build, review and assess emergency response plans
• Increase in reaction capability and bringing in expert consultants
• Information exchange and support strategic decision making through visualization
• Content sharing for even better and speedier response for the challenge

VideoMost in situational center’s departments and agencies enables continuous monitoring and input of changes in emergency situation in the zone of responsibility. This enables quick recognizing of the situation, making conclusions and estimations for most effective response avoiding chaos and saving lives. VideoMost is a fast way of interactive communication between response teams allowing real-time assessments so they can handle all emergency situations.

Use VideoMost for executive briefing centers, boardrooms, smaller-scale situation, crisis response rooms and control rooms to transform all of them into empowering collaboration centers that speed better decision-making.

CASE STUDY

VideoMost as a video monitoring and operational video conferencing tool within Russian Railways Situation Center

CS FUNCTIONALITY:

• Integrated video monitoring of situation at the railway stations
• Situation reacting (automatic and interactive)
• Informing people in charge and organizations involved
• Interactive tools of multimedia collaboration

REQUIRED - a multifunctional solution that would meet the challenge of providing the highest possible degree of flexibility and usability in a unified information space.

Such solution was found in video conferencing software.

SOLUTION

VideoMost platform helps to bring together in one conference all staff members, video from surveillance cameras, additional data from experts’ and staff members’ computers, allows free discussion between all participants.

VideoMost provides an ability to work both via dedicated network and public Internet enables users to participate in conference without registration in the system. Thanks to that, any specialist can be called up to deal with the crises, even if participation of such a specialist wasn’t initially specified in Situation Center.

VideoMost allows communicating via PCs, mobile devices and phones. Even in the most complex situation VideoMost makes it possible for all the people involved to hear and see each other. VideoMost supports SIP and allows connection of wire and mobile phones, video phones, video conferencing terminals and surveillance cameras to the conference.

RESULT

• 1-click multipoint videoconferences
• 1000 users, more then 300 railway terminals are involved
• Unified video monitoring for railway stations based on several thousands of web cams
• Coordination and reaction in emergency situation
• Provide information for senior managers and organizations in charge in real time
• Tools for multimedia collaboration