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by DRONELIFE Staff Author Ian M. Crosby
Halo Solutions, the developer of incident and threat management platform Halo (V5), is deploying its live streaming drone technology Halo Stream at major sporting events to watch protester activity, individuals of interest, ticket touts and crowd safety. Using live streaming technology with Halo (v5) significantly improves its capability and offers an important link for gathering intelligence, surveillance, combatting protester activity at major sporting events and assisting in counter terrorism surveillance and reconnaissance.
“With the marked increase of threats from protestor and activist attacks at major sporting events, the security and security of crowds and event stakeholders has never been more essential,” said Halo Solutions founder Lloyd Major, a crowd safety expert and former National Counter Terrorism Unit Specialist Tactical Support Officer. “We now have also seen increased terror threat levels domestically and overseas with plenty of terrorist organisations and training camps lively in Afghanistan. It’s well-known that Afghanistan has now develop into a secure space and haven for terrorist groups to coach, operate and mount attacks against the West alongside other global geopolitical unrest.
The mixing of live video streaming from sources like drones, CCTV, body-worn video and mobile phones to our existing Halo (v5) incident and threat management platform really does play a major role in countering protestor activity, identifying individuals of interest and playing a proactive role in crowd safety and counter terrorism strategies. Combined with previous and existing event intelligence, we are able to provide proactive surveillance and reconnaissance direct to the control room.”
The Halo (v5) live stream drone technology was recently deployed to the Reading Half Marathon, the Ashes series at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, and Flavours of Fingal, certainly one of Ireland’s largest county shows with greater than 80,000 attendees.
On the Ashes Test Series in Birmingham, the Halo drone and integrated threat management platform were deployed to form a novel turnkey security and intelligence operation, working alongside Edgbaston Cricket Ground’s major event security and intelligence center. The Halo (v5) drone streaming technology successfully tagged and tracked multiple individuals of interest and captured footage commanded by operators on the bottom, all while live streaming into the command-and-control post within the operation rooms. Several individuals of interest, a known protester and 6 ticket touts were identified, tracked and streamed back into the Halo System within the control room.
The brand new Halo Drone Stream and in-house pilots allow for the answer to be quickly deployed to an event to grant live stream footage directly into the Halo incident and threat management platform. This lets event operations and security teams monitor, assess and react to suspicious individuals, crowd tension, security threats or a protest group planning an attack, based on real-time, live information.
“Using the Halo Drone Stream platform to bring live footage directly into Edgbaston’s major event control on the Ashes Test brought a brand new dynamic to soundly managing Zone X,” said David Clarke, Major Event Safety Officer to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, which staged the First Test of the 2023 Ashes Series. “The system’s real-time capabilities meant we could dynamically monitor for protestor activity, touts and individuals of interest, in addition to gaining oversight on crowd flows and key junctions surrounding the stadium for the most important occasion of the yr. This brought real-time insights and intelligence to decision-makers in our control room, and the proven fact that we are able to immediately tag footage as evidence directly onto incidents within the Halo system is a game-changer for our reporting to maintain our crowds and venue secure at every event we host.”
“With Halo, now we have created the one seamless incident and threat management platform that may ingest multiple live streams of footage from any source: drone, bodycam footage, CCTV and mobile,” said Halo Solutions CEO Lloyd Major. “The technology synchronises and connects the pilot operator on the bottom to regulate with the best quality live stream footage that is totally targeted to the most important threats currently presented. This seamless flow of data allows serious and – in some cases – life-altering decisions to be taken much quicker, with intelligence and significant decision-making governed by real time information. It is a vitally essential aspect to help a control room to assist prevent protestor activity, a serious crowd safety issue, or to assist prevent the very real threat of a terrorist attack.”
Deploying Halo Drone alongside a chosen drone pilot and live stream of footage into Halo’s threat management system provides a full turnkey operation for managing the security and security of major events, allowing for intelligence gathering of threats, crowd monitoring, and counter terrorism surveillance. This technology is capable of monitor in daylight or at night in infra-red, in addition to tag individuals and vehicles and use AI to trace them across the positioning’s field of operation or beyond.
The Halo (v5) platform is already being deployed at a few of the world’s most high-profile events, equivalent to the FIFA World Cup Fan Zones in Qatar (2022), Cricket World Cup (2019), the Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix, Notting Hill Carnival, Glastonbury Festival and Eurovision 2023. It is usually employed year-round at arenas and conference venues throughout the UK, including The NEC Group, Motorpoint Arena, M&S Bank Arena and ExCeL London. The Halo System sees significant use at football, rugby and cricket stadiums, including Chelsea FC, West Bromwich Albion, Mansfield Town, Watford FC and Premiership Rugby clubs Harlequins and Leicester Tigers.
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