Advanced Surveillance & Acquisition Monitoring System (ASAMS)

1. Advanced Surveillance & Acquisition Monitoring System (ASAMS) Brought to you by JOSH Transportation Systems The ASAMS incorporates the latest in advanced audio/video (A/V) surveillance and target acquisition. Comprised of a central evidentiary-based video analytics engine and DSP camera, accessorized with advanced multi-stage self-resetting surge protection devices and communicating over a myriad of network types for local and remote A/V recording operations, the ASAMS provides unparalleled A/V capture and evidentiary capabilities not realized with other systems. As an integrated system, the ASAMS can operate effectively in both peer-to-peer and Enterprise networks. In peer-to-peer networks the cost of integration is simplified and can operate very effectively utilizing the field-equipment’s video engine, embedded network video recorder (NVR) and linked remotely to an application PC running an A/V player providing for live and archival playback and utilizing advanced target search analytics. In the Enterprise, the ASAMS can operate most effectively utilizing the combination of the field equipment’s video engine, server-based NVR and enhanced domain share capabilities via player client apps for multiple simultaneous live and archival playback while utilizing the advanced target search analytics. Whether monitoring railroad, traffic, public safety or transit activities or advancing solutions for your extreme monitoring needs, ASAMS can deliver the advanced target identification, live and archival playback capabilities you need for fast and efficient target identification and transcription in one complete system. JOSH Transportation Systems can provide the system knowledge and experience to help you realize the full potential of ASAMS for your unique application.

2. Benefits of ASAMS ASAMS began life as a proposal to assist the City of Fort Worth, Texas to monitor and enforce Quiet Zones, monitor gate drive-arounds and report blocked intersections at railroad crossings. In June of 2005, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued regulations that specify that trains must sound a locomotive horn while approaching all public railroad crossings. That rule also provides exceptions to those requirements and enables communities to create Quiet Zones. A Quiet Zone is a section of a rail line that contains one or more consecutive crossings at which locomotive horns are not routinely sounded. This helps by keeping train horn noise to a minimum in residential areas while ensuring that safety is maintained at the crossings. The FRA regulations describe the requirements that communities must meet in order to implement and maintain a Quiet Zone. The City of Fort Worth has nearly 200 grade crossings within its city limits. In established Quiet Zones, the FRA regulations allow locomotive engineers to sound the train horn if there are persons or obstacles within the railroad right-of-way. In preceding years, Fort Worth suspected many train horn soundings in their Quiet Zones were not warranted, where gate drive-arounds were occurring and where emergency vehicle dispatches and commercial transports were being blocked from crossing. Until the introduction of ASAMS, the only recourse the City had to monitor train crossing activities was to use residents and city staffers, accepting their personal observations in order to challenge railroad companies and locomotive engineers for suspect unwarranted activities. Fort Worth needed to create a train monitoring system to capture video of the railroad crossing area, the train in the crossing (engine number) and any incriminating train or vehicular activities, and be portable enough to move it from location to location to monitor crossings where unwarranted activities were being reported. The city wanted to get the audio and video back to City offices for live viewing and transcribing recorded A/V content from one or more cameras to evaluate suspect train horn soundings, gate drive-arounds and blocked crossings. Because of the remote locations of the Quiet Zones in Fort Worth, a traditional network connection to City offices was not an available option. Point-to-point wireless networks would have required the City to buildout wireless infrastructure at considerable time and cost, while realizing this would inhibit portability. Looking to cellular providers, it became obvious that the video engine used needed to be state-of-the-art, as bandwidth would be at a premium in the cellular upstream.

3. The ASAMS Solution Shown here is Fort Worth’s first ASAMS system mounted at an established Quiet Zone crossing. Note the dual camera mounting utilizing fully articulated rotational mounts. Features of ASAMS The embedded video engine utilizes state-of-the-art compression schemes to manage the bandwidth required for cellular operations and is coupled with special video stream controls designed specifically for limited bandwidth and wireless environments such as cellular. By precisely controlling the bandwidth, condensing video before transmission and only transferring when requested, the video engine is able to transmit extremely stable video in a constrained data stream. The video engine is also able to synchronize video and audio in one stream, ensuring that they stay synchronized for evidentiary purposes. An embedded military-grade advanced video analytics option enables the city to record 24/7 while triggering video detection events across multiple cameras based upon motion within the view of any one camera so that events detected by one camera can be used to trigger another camera. This provides for a wider field-of-view and enhanced imaging and target acquisition analysis. In transcription of archival video and audio, specialized software allows users to playback multiple video files from multiple cameras synchronized to the timestamps on A/V files. With the video engine sitting behind a cellular modem connected to the Internet or connected to an SNTP-enabled network, the video engine is able to provide SNTP-based time synchronization for atomic clock-based date/time stamp accuracy. Rounding out the solution is the Network Video Recorder. This provides the heart of the recording system and the means for recording all the content, maintaining evidentiary data integrity and supporting all the features and control sets afforded by the video engine's portfolio of operations.

4. Features & Specifications • H.264 video streaming • MPEG4/MPEG2/MJPEG video streaming • Dual IP video streaming • Support for Unicast, Multi-unicast & Multicast • Selectable video controls to include constant bit streams, constrained bit streams, variable bit streams and variable constrained bit streams • Stereo and monaural audio • Advanced military-grade embedded multiple target acquisition video analytics engine • Synchronized audio and video for maintaining A/V data integrity • Multiple synchronized simultaneous live and archival A/V playback • MD5 watermark application for maintaining data evidentiary submission • SNTP date/time stamp integration • 24/7 A/V recording with target detection archival flagging for lossless archival content and rapid search transcription • Local and remote NVR operations • Remote NVR application server A/V content recovery • Ethernet to serial/serial to Ethernet transparency • RS 232/422/485 camera control • Discrete I/O capabilities for remote sensing and external equipment monitoring • Programmable and SNMP alarm functionality • 12/24 VDC, 120 VAC (Euro voltage operation by special order) Protocols Supported IP, TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, SAP, SNTP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, FTP, SNMP, Telnet, Web-server & more… Additional Information Static IPs required Enterprise application should be Multicast-aware for maximum benefit For Inquiries Contact JOSH Transportation Systems, Inc. Thom@JOSHTS.com (713) 826-0739 Carl@JOSHTS.com (512) 635-5630 Thank you for your interest in ASAMS solutions