Microsoft Recognizes Viscount’s ‘Good Samaritan’ Work
Viscount Systems recently won a “Be What’s Next” award from Microsoft in recognition of its participation in Microsoft Global Security’s Good Samaritan Project, which was designed to create a social network to help aid and assist in the event of emergencies.
The project uses the Freedom security platform to integrate with Microsoft Kinect software with Windows phones through an Azure Cloud application. When Kinect identifies an emergency condition, Freedom Cloud software identifies staff in the relevant Freedom access control zone and sends them an emergency assistance message on their Windows phone.