Smart city - Privacy and public cameras
Residents, council members and city attorneys will ask what happens to street video. This page answers them.
What happens to the video
Where it runs
ConductVision runs on a computer at your site. Full recordings never leave your network, and short clips leave it only as your statement of work sets out.
What it saves
For each event it flags, ConductVision saves a record and a short clip at your site.
Who on your team sees it
Each person on your team has a named account with one role, which sets what they can do.
What it does not do with people
Faces
Street pilots do not recognize faces. Faces can be blurred, or people shown as simple figures, when your policy calls for it.
License plates
Street pilots do not read license plates.
Tickets
ConductVision does not issue tickets.
Your rules apply
Your policy
Your policy sets what your team keeps and for how long.
Public records
Your city attorney decides how public records rules apply to clips and results.
Your review process
If your city reviews new technology before it is used, we will answer your reviewers' questions in writing. Send us your organization's security questionnaire and we will fill it in for your IT and security teams.
Video of children
Your policy decides whether cameras near schools are part of a pilot.
Pilot - How a pilot starts
A paid pilot covers one intersection or one corridor. Your team sets the criteria before any results come in. You decide whether to roll out, change the scope or stop.
- You bring
- Your privacy policy, and recorded video from the cameras at one intersection or corridor. A first look at your footage shows whether the camera views will work.
- We set up
- ConductVision for your camera views. A measure that is right at one camera may not be right at the next, so before results go out a ConductVision engineer measures a sample from each camera by hand to check them.
- You get
- Counts, measures and flagged clips, and a final report on whether the pilot met the criteria your team set.
Related pages
- Blurred people and platesHow ConductVision Traffic blurs people and keeps video at your site.
- Sample street reviewWhat you get at the end of a street pilot.
- Near miss analysisWhere road users nearly collide.
- Vision ZeroCounts, speeds and near misses for your plan.
- How it worksWhat you need to start, the steps of a pilot and who sees the video.