Projects

Automated Body Camera

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Project Overview

This is a project for an automated lightweight, wearable police body camera system. The goal is to design a reliable solution that starts recording automatically once an officer is dispatched to a call. For the prototype, I'm using a Raspberry Pi along with Java programming that connects over Bluetooth. When a dispatch is triggered, either through an alert system or an activation button, the camera powers on and starts recording. This helps ensure important footage isn't lost due to human error or delay in starting the recording. 

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The Architecture

As for the prototype, the architecture includes a wireless communication layer, video capture, file encryption with future integration plans for uploading footage to a secure cloud storage location. Future phases will also introduce automated tagging (timestamp, GPS, officer information, dispatch information) to each recording to aid in investigations and chain-of-custody verification. 

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Current Status

I'm currently in the prototype and design phase, finalizing the logic and testing different methods of reliable activation. Right now, the Bluetooth trigger is functional, and I'm evaluating camera modules and video compression formats that strike a good balance between quality and storage efficiency. The goal is to create a working demo that handles both automatic recording and basic data management by the end of the current phase.