The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has selected Diversified Security Solutions' Viscom Division to provide and install video surveillance systems on 80 light rail vehicles (LRVs) and provide maintenance for three years.

Robert Gave, project manager for Santa Clara VTA, stated, "Our decision to equip our light rail vehicles with video surveillance systems stemmed from the large success of the On-board Surveillance Program on the VTA buses since 2001. To bring this successful program to our new low-floor Kinkisharyo light rail vehicles, we required an integrated security vendor that could provide us with the highest levels of technology and technical experience, along with superior customer service. After an extensive review, we determined that Viscom Products provided the best value to VTA with respect to qualifications of the firm, project organization, product stability of the digital video recorder and cost. The Viscom Products system completed the final demonstration without failure, had excellent image quality, and demonstrated better wireless diagnostic and video download capabilities than the other two systems demonstrated."

Viscom will provide Santa Clara VTA with Mobile Digital Video Recorders (MDVRs) and Enterprise Management Suite software from March Networks. VTA will use an 802.11g network for communications from the on-board MDVRs to its central monitoring station. Together, Viscom Products and March Networks will provide the transportation authority with high quality and reliable video download capabilities as well as a proactive fleet management system.
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