Video surveillance from the sky protects teenagers /Пазят тийнейджъри с камери в небето

31.05.2008

Spider man flies above Sofia and saves trapped people in burning buildings. At nigh he is watching the soccer game seating on the roof of the stadium, and after the fighting between fans, he brings them one by one to the police. This is not a scene from the film, but a real project, which started with the Metropolitan Municipality and hometown action hero Ivan Kristoff. With a team of specialists, yesterday he did a test flight with the helicopter over Sofia. The aim was, photo monitoring and video recording in real time of public events, with the present of a lot of people and children. The occasion was the Children’s Day -June 1, but the idea is to introduce video surveillance and our special explained the stunt expert. His engineers tested also the GSM coverage of mobile operators in the capital. They checked the reception in vertical direction. Good connection is needed to easily send information from the camera on the helicopter. These pictures, taken from a bird’s eye view, are used to save people, to catch criminals and prevent incidents like this in the “Indigo” discotheque (in which 7 kids died) explained the organizers. The Mayor Boyko Borisov, can see what is happening in the city and where there is traffic while he is having his breakfast.
Ivan Kristoff gave an example that with a camera for around 10 BGN connected to a computer; he can monitor on his mobile phone his daughter in Canada. In Bulgaria millions of dollars are given for this kind of equipment, but when somebody crashed into my truck in the center - nothing. No one saw anything, complained Spiderman. On June 1 make a special attraction for kids with a ropework acrobatics of a hot air balloon about 100 meters off the ground in South Park.

Човека паяк прелита към обяд над София и спасява хора, блокирани в горяща сграда. Привечер гледа мач, седнал върху козирката на стадиона, а след заформилото се меле между феновете ги води до един в полицията. Това не е сцена от филма, а реален проект, който Столична община стартира с родния екшън герой Иван Кристоф. С екип от специалисти той извърши вчера тестов полет с хеликоптер над София. Целта бе видеонаблюдение и запис в реално време на масови събития, на които присъстват и деца. Поводът е 1 юни, но идеята е да въведем видеонаблюдение и у нас, обясни спецът по каскадите.

Неговите инженери тестваха и покритието на мобилните оператори в столицата, но във вертикална посока. Добрата връзка е необходима, за да се праща безпроблемно информация от камерата на хеликоптера. После снимковият материал се използва, за да се спасяват хора, да се ловят престъпници и предотвратяват инциденти като този в “Индиго”, обясниха организаторите. Кметът Бойко Борисов, пък можел да наблюдава какво се случва в града и къде има задръствания, докато закусва.

Иван Кристоф даде за пример, че с една камера за около 10 лева, вързана с компютър, той наблюдава от мобилния телефон детето си в Канада. У нас милиони се дават за техника, а като ми разбиха джипа в центъра - нищо, оплака се Човека паяк. На 1 юни той ще зарадва малчуганите с въжена акробатика от балон, издигнат на около 100 м в Южния парк.
Любомир Старидолски, в. Стандарт

SPIDERMAN CONDUCTED THE VERY FIRST AERIAL VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FROM A HELICOPTER

Ivan Kristoff, organized and tested the 3G and 4G technology high above Sofia
BBT TV, 30 May, 2008

TV Anchor: A volunteer organization, founded by Ivan Kristoff, is working on a pilot project for aerial video monitoring from a helicopter. If the City of Sofia Municipality is happy with the results, it is possible in the near future to have an aerial emergency response provided by helicopter, which will assist the capital of Bulgaria in crisis situations.
Reporter Aliosha Shalamanov: Ivan Kristoff, aka Spiderman, has initiated and committed to the development of this project. Човекът паяк, както е известен по света Иван Кристоф, се е ангажирал с разработването на проекта. The wireless video monitoring from the air, will provide online contact between the emergency services and rescue teams. The helicopter will be equipped with remote camera control photo and video equipment. The visual materials can be used to train rescue teams in an innovative training program, called trailblazing.
Ivan Kristoff: Trail-blazing in this case means to do something that no-one has done before, especially something which will be important for other people. In my case, it is a specialized training for my volunteer rescue organization, in which members of our teams will be introduced to visual presentations of situations where they have no experience, but they have to be trained to work in such conditions. They will learn in innovative way how to deal with crisis situations during rescue missions.
This is a condition (Deja vu), as the French call it, in which you have not been, but when it is projected to you on the screen during a training session, you will comprehend much better the situation presented in front of you. If you are the trainee, you will fill much more familiar with the surrounding area of such situation and when later you are in real life scenario, you react instead of the conventional way of analyzing the situation and reacting. Thanks to the trailblazing training, the brain will take the time to work with the captured video experience of a rescue training session, and later on in a familiar situation, it will be recognized as a true life experience. That is how I would like to implement this innovative training methodology for Search and Rescue technicians.
These rescuers will be prepared and unconsciously trained for such scenarios. So, in a critical situation, they will not waste time in thinking, or be shocked by the “element of surprise”, or get scared of the unknown.

Reporter: The aerial video surveillance, (proposed by Ivan Kristoff), in not expensive, but lacks the political will to implement it in the country thinks Ivan. Therefore, he will present the results from this “Big Brother” surveillance above Sofia to the Municipality of the City. If the Mayor is happy with the results, soon above Sofia will be in force a constant aerial monitoring, which will give a more efficient and faster reaction during crisis and emergency situations.
Total air time: 1:40 minutes