Getting live video reports from the scene of disasters as events unfold can be a logistical and technical challenge. Increasingly, relief organizations and government agencies turn to mobile video transport technologies, typically used for real-time newsgathering, as a means to getting timely video and audio reports back to decision makers for assessment and response.

Streambox’s innovative video technology facilitates improved communication between relief organizations/government agencies and field workers. The highly mobile system fits into a small backpack and it can be set up and start transmitting high quality video and audio reports within minutes, even when all
land-based networks have been knocked out. System flexibility, reliability, and ease-of-use are critical in these applications, because the systems are very likely to be operated by non-technical staff. Streambox technology provides greater agility in gathering disaster intelligence faster, more efficiently and at a lower cost.

Testimonial

"The entire Streambox system performed flawlessly and the video quality was astounding. The Department of Homeland Security's ability to obtain video in an immediate manner will affect the lives of many. We have nothing but good things to say about Streambox."

JAMES WOOLARD
Technical Director
Customs & Border Protection Technical Services
Department of Homeland Security

• Media Coverage and Press Releases
• • Broadcast Buyer - Streambox highlights streaming media for emergency response at GV Expo.
  • Broadcast Engineering - Red Cross Improves Communication with Field Workers Using Streambox.
  • Strong Angel III - Streambox Shines at Emergency Preparedness Exercise.

Emergency Response Work Flow

The real-time video transport solution from Streambox enables relief organizations and government to decrease disaster response times and deliver damage assessment at low data rates.

The work flow illustrates how live video is transmitted via a Streambox^® Portable Encoder or a compact Streambox^® SBT3-7500 Encoder and delivered to laptop or desktop clients. Staff at regional and/or central emergency response centers then view the video reports in real-time over IP Unicast or IP Multicast networks. Emergency relief staff can be in constant audio contact with field workers by using the back-channel IFB connection.

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