Replacing Tape: Governor of Puerto Rico
The office of Puerto Rico’s governor, Hon. Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, uses the Volicon Observer to stay informed of news about the administration and various government agencies. The Observer allows Governor Vilá and his advisors on-demand access to live and archived video content from anywhere in the world.
Previously, the Governor’s Central Communications Office (CCO) had been recording and editing daily broadcasts of several local television and AM radio channels onto VHS and audio tape, respectively. Additionally, staff members were responsible for assembling print clippings from approximately five newspapers a day. With such a time-consuming system, the governor and his advisors could only receive briefings late each night — and in the form of numerous VHS and audiotapes and one large book of print clippings. Older stories were only searchable through a manual archive.
Today, the Observer plays a key role in a new monitoring infrastructure that digitizes and stores all video, radio, and print components. The Observer captures all video transmissions from TV broadcasts and converts them into extracted AVI files that it automatically transfers to Network Attached Storage (NAS) for 90 days. CCO staffers have the ability to search for video directly from their desktops, and searches can be narrowed to specific news channels, periods of time, and even government agencies. Video reports can be generated at any time for viewing anywhere in the world from a Web-based interface. For example, staffers at the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration office in Washington, D.C. — the official representative of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the U.S. — can easily access video reports from their desktops.
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