Super Bowl Security Aided By Wireless Camera System

Wireless Vision™ Helps Law Enforcement Agencies

Monitor Events Remotely At Low Cost

(SAN DIEGO – February 14, 2003) - VivaMicro, a San Diego based provider of wireless video systems for law enforcement agencies and first responders, completed the first successful application of the new Wireless Vision™ system during Super Bowl XXXVIII. The Wireless Vision™ system delivered video and still images from remote, wireless cameras over existing cellular networks to a secure website, from which the pictures were viewed on laptops and web-enabled cell phones.

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) and fire officials used the VivaMicro system at “Bud Bowl,” an Anheuser-Busch event featuring live concerts and beer gardens. It was held outdoors in Mission Bay Park, where the SDPD could not install traditional closed-circuit surveillance cameras. Using Wireless Vision™ and the Ricochet high-speed data network, VivaMicro furnished visual data to command centers and mobile emergency personnel located throughout the county.

“VivaMicro filled a void,” said Bob Davis, SDPD Director of Technical Operations for Super Bowl Security. “We really needed to watch where beer and alcohol were being served at Bud Bowl and had no way to do it. Wireless Vision™ was a perfect fit, a force multiplier that expanded our capability for coverage.”

VivaMicro also provided images from the “no-fly” zone, which prohibited all aircraft, except law enforcement and military, from flying over the football stadium. Using a Ricoh i700 wireless still camera and the Verizon cellular network, SDPD’s aerial patrols transmitted images to their command center to monitor traffic conditions and plan the best route to the stadium for emergency personnel.

“The convergence of digital images, high-speed wireless networks and the Internet has created the opportunity to offer security personnel a low-cost means to see what’s taking place in any crisis location covered by cellular networks.” said Kim Glandon, VivaMicro’s president. “We’re confident now that our proven technology will meet the needs of law enforcement and first responders.”

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