When South Sioux City, Nebraska wanted to provide local police and the 911 emergency center remote monitoring of public and school district video cameras, it looked to Vicon's ViconNet IP video solution. They had just implemented a city-wide wireless internet service, and when they found that the ViconNet system was totally compliant, they moved ahead with the installation.
"We are a very aggressive city," says Lance Martin, Communications Director for South Sioux City. "We write a lot of grants and get funded for a lot of grants." So when they received an ITEP (Information Technology Evaluation Program) grant through the Department of Homeland Security, they were experienced in how to handle things. "The reason we were funded for this was because we had already implemented a wireless system, because we had that infrastructure," Martin says. The grant allowed them to use that infrastructure to benefit security in multiple venues from utilities to City Hall to local schools.
