About body-worn cameras - Security Center 5.10

Security Center Administrator Guide 5.10

Applies to
Security Center 5.10
Last updated
2023-06-12
Content type
Guides > Administrator guides
Language
English
Product
Security Center
Version
5.10

A body-worn camera (BWC), also known as a wearable camera, is a video recording system that is typically used by law enforcement to record their interactions with the public or gather video evidence at crime scenes.

Wearable Camera Manager role

The Wearable Camera Manager role is used to configure and manage body-worn camera (BWC) devices in Security Center, including configuring camera stations, adding officers (wearable camera users), uploading content to an Archiver, and setting the retention period for uploaded evidence.

You can use this role when you do not or cannot upload your evidence data to the cloud (Genetec Clearance™), or when you want to access Security Center Archiver functions such as retention period.

You can then search body-worn camera archives using the Archives task in Security Desk.

The storage requirements for body-worn cameras takes into account the following factors:
  • Number of cameras.
  • Retention period: amount of time to keep the archives online.
  • Average recording size.
NOTE: The data is duplicated for body-worn cameras. For example, the original recording mp4 (in the G64) is kept as well as the archive G64 (audio and video).

When using the Wearable Camera Manager role, the Genetec™ Server should use an NTP server. The servers for all Associated Archiver roles should also be synched with this NTP server and the docking station's NTP time server must be configured.

Body-worn camera station

A body-worn camera station is a physical device or software used to automatically upload media from a body-worn camera to Genetec Clearance™ or the Wearable Camera Manager role in Security Center, depending on which .json file is used.