Allevate and Tygart Technology announced their strategic collaboration to help improve society by providing cost-constrained government agencies with technology to combat organized crime, terrorist activities and civil unrest. Governments across Europe are in fiscal crisis; austerity is the order of the day. Against this backdrop, security risks are continuously increasing. There is a need to enhance public safety whilst reducing operational budgets.
Allevate, a technology company focusing on improving operational efficiencies and enhancing public safety through positive identification with biometric technology, and Tygart, developers of commercial software products for government and law enforcement agencies, cite an explosion in digital media due to the ubiquity of smart phones, other portable devices and video surveillance. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have amassed large collections of video and photographs from multiple sources such as confiscated hardware, online sources and surveillance cameras. However, there is no easy and cost-effective way to access the intelligence this media contains and respond rapidly when atrocities occur; experienced and expensive human capital must be assigned the rote task of watching countless of hours of video in the hope of finding useful information.
Tygart's video/photo forensic analytical system already providing a significant ROI to US Federal Defense, Intelligence and Law Enforcement organizations, processes vast amounts of textual, video and photo collections quickly – automatically discovering, grouping and extracting segments depicting people. Using facial recognition, this solution searches media archives to find other assets which depict individuals of interest. Results become available in minutes rather than hours or days because the digital media files are processed in parallel over distributed cloud architecture. The system delivers a Big Data solution for law-enforcement's growing video and photo assets that provides significantly enhanced identification of suspects quicker and more efficiently.
Supported by Tygart, Allevate has incorporated the solution into its portfolio of solutions available to European intelligence, law enforcement and government agencies. Additionally, as the software is optionally available on a subscription basis in the UK, public sector organizations can minimize their capital outlay and realize immediate operational efficiency gains.
“Having previously supported Tygart on contracts to US Federal agencies, the significant advantage their solution provides by automating the processing of previously unmanageable quantities of multimedia was immediately apparent,” said Carl Gohringer, founder and Managing Director of Allevate.