In an earlier post, I wrote about the collection of physiological data to provide real time assessment and advice. In the following video, we talk about how the collection of streaming video and audio help provide more relevant advice. At first blush, the thought that collecting video and audio is nothing new. Most everyone has Read More …

Our system has a requirement to store a great deal of data. If you take a small shoot house, with five rooms, there are about 60 cameras. Doesn’t seem like a very large amount of sensors, but everything that we do is at near real time speeds. We collect data every 15 milliseconds. Each sample Read More …

This post is a follow up to a post on using the Google Vision API in the cloud. We have attached a video that shows capturing of video streams under various lighting scenarios, cleaning them up, sending them to Google in near real time, getting the labeling back from Google and the storage to Big Read More …

If you have had any training as an LEO, in the military, or as a civilian shooter, it becomes second nature to observe, assess and act. We can look at a fellow with a cell phone and put the fellow on the bottom of our list of priorities until the fellow looks at us and Read More …

Somewhere in the world, there is a cop making a traffic, stop, a Marshal serving a warrant, a SWAT team navigating a dark hallway, or operators clearing a building. Every day, these men and women face challenges that are never truly understood unless experienced. They have to rapidly sort through the noise separating those to Read More …

Just about every major country in the World has watched Robert Downey Jr. streak across the sky righting wrongs and taking out the bad guys. As is so often the case, movies plant the seed and the military folks start the step of transitioning from fantasy to reality. The picture on the left is Russia’s Read More …

Patterns. I am always looking for patterns But that is not that all unusual. Every creature with a brain learns from experiences in life  — patterns in life. The other day, I was driving behind a motorcycle. I was watching the fellow balance on two wheels as he moved through traffic. I doubt that he Read More …

In the past I have done electronic security , computer security and mobile security. And now with the cloud, I have mapped what I learned from the past into analyzing cloud security. It doesn’t seem to matter whether I am dealing with small, medium or large companies, at times the approach to security is not Read More …

Buddha understood many things. But when you start to think about the sun, the moon and the truth, there is a difference. You can be rather sure that if you are on the earth and you see the sun, you know it is day time. If you see the moon, you know that it is Read More …

  I think that most folks at one time or another have interacted with Netflix, Hulu, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Depending upon the importance of privacy in your life, it may or may not be cool to see these companies have come to learn what is important to you. In my case, Amazon has a pretty Read More …