Visual Fusion Powers U.S.-Canada Cross-Border Security
Project
Lansing, MI, September 8, 2010
IDV Solutions today announced that its Visual Fusion software will
play a central role in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) project to enhance
public safety along the U.S.-Canada border, using business intelligence, data visualization,
and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Visual Fusion is business intelligence
software that unites data sources in a web-based, visual context for better insight
and understanding.
Under DHS's Virtual City Project, emergency first-responders from St. Clair County,
MI, Lambton County, Ontario, the City of Sarnia, Ontario and other Canadian partner
agencies will use Visual Fusion as a platform for sharing information related to
the security of regional infrastructure. When the application is deployed, users
with be able to enter and interact with crime data, 911 calls, land records, weather,
and real-time security video. Through the Visual Fusion interface, they will also
be able to expand the application and add new types of information as needed, without
additional development.
"This will be a platform for St. Clair County and a model for other areas," said
St. Clair County DHS Emergency Management Director Jeffrey A. Friedland, in an interview
with the St. Clair and Macomb counties newspaper the Voice. At the successful completion
of the project, plans are to replicate the technology in emergency response operations
across the country.
“We are excited to be a part of something so important to national security,” explained
IDV Solutions CEO Mark Morrison. “Visual Fusion is the perfect tool to unite border
data into an easy-to-update, interactive, visual application. Bringing all that
content into the full context of location, time, and analytics will prove to be
very beneficial.”
DHS has designated St. Clair County as a Virtual City regional site, where the agency
will evaluate new technologies and develop new policies and standards to help local
agencies plan for and respond to natural disasters and terrorist events. Work on
the pilot project is slated to be completed by December 31, 2010.
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