siliconindia | | December 20199A well-implemented system will help companies reduce the costs of maintaining their facilities, improve the flow of information across departmentsCorroborating Evidence: Use of body cameras while on the duty can provide hard evidence of decisions made by officers in high-intensity situations. The footage is ex-tremely valuable in knowing exactly what happened.Help against False Accusations: Video recorded by body worn cameras can help protect citizens as well as police officers against any false accusations of miscon-duct or misbehave. It is quite certain that both will support each other to abide the law. Features of Body Worn CamerasAudio & Video Quality ­ The system should be capa-ble enough to capture conversation as well as video at any circumstances. Wide angle video capture is a must for body cameras.Battery Backup ­ The body worn camera must have at least 6 to 8 hours of back up so that videos can be cap-tured for long duration without any glitches.Real Time Video ­ The Physical Camera must have capability to transfer the real time videos on cloud storage for transparency.Compression/Encoding ­ The most modern models of Body worn cameras uses H.265 and MPEG-4 encod-ing or compression. H.265 is the new standard with bet-ter compression which actually helps to compress the video file sizes so that it can occupy less storage. How-ever this compression methodology maintains the high video quality.Night Vision ­ The camera must be capable enough to capture videos in low lighting conditions with amazing clarity.Resolution Settings ­ Various resolution settings al-low recording in low or high definition such as 480, 720 or 1080.Easy Start and Stop ­ Touch and go capability of video recording allows officers to quickly start and stop the cameras, eliminating any complex procedures to follow.Storage Capability ­ We must check the storage ca-pacity of the body worn camera while selecting it. Many devices come with in-built storage and others have ex-pandable storage capacity.
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