West Palm Beach, the oldest incorporated municipality in Florida, now has “digital” eyes watching its streets, helping police officers intercept and reduce crime activity in hotspot areas. The city’s police department recently completed the first phase of a wireless video surveillance network deployment using wireless mesh nodes and access points from Firetide Inc., Los Gatos, Calif. The system sends real-time video image streams from cameras installed throughout the city to police dispatchers and enables officers patrolling the streets to view the video remotely from their vehicles.

“The benefit of using video surveillance is that it creates an extra set of eyes in the sky that are helping us to prevent crime,” says Assistant Police Chief Guillermo Perez of the West Palm Beach Police Department. “The cameras are acting more as preventative tools than anything else.”

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