Imagine this. A SWAT team of 10 police officers could be deployed to a dangerous neighborhood in search of an alleged terrorist. Each officer could carry a cell phone that could transmit live images of precisely what he or she was seeing at that very moment. Back at the command center, an incident commander could choose the most useful streaming video from any of the 10 team members and instantly broadcast those live images to everyone else at the scene. The enhancement to their ‘situational awareness’ would be extraordinary. Such a seamless and portable capability might bring to mind a fictional scene from ‘24’, starring Kiefer Sutherland, but this technology is real and already being deployed in the field.”

A picture is worth a thousand words  |  GSN's Homeland Security Insider