Technology at Work: New Orleans Video Surveillance System Survives Hurricane Katrina
With several hundred robotic network cameras eyeing the city, early assessment revealed that crime and policing costs had dropped significantly. Building out the system across the entire municipality was moving forward on schedule.
“The system had already proven itself time and time again,†maintains Iggie Perrin, president of Southern Electronics. “Then Katrina took us into unknown territory, well beyond anything we had engineered for.â€