Lextech Labs CEO, Alex Bratton, will participate in a roundtable discussion with Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago mayoral candidate on Monday, December 20th. As a leader and visionary in the Chicago technology community, Alex will be discussing how Lextech Labs is driving mobile video and technology and how it can assist in building the economy in Chicago and the region.
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Alex Bratton, CEO Writes on Game Changers for SDM Magazine
Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech Labs continues to be an evangelist for mobilizing video. In this article in the December Issue of SDM Magazine, he uses his expertise to educate on the keys to real time mobile video.
Click here to read the article.
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C3 Design Architecture
Watch our video on how our C3 software integrates with the Milestone VMS.
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Lextech Labs takes video surveillance mobile
Alex Bratton and Lextech Labs are featured in the Medill Reports Chicago. Lextech Labs founder and CEO Alex Bratton discovered his love of computers early in life, after his parents bought one of the first Apple computers.
“When Alex was probably 10 or so, we bought an Apple II computer..and he was writing little games on it,” said Ray Bratton, Alex’s father. “[He] made these little stick men that would fall off a cliff” with his little brother
That was just the beginning. By age 14, Alex had formed his first software development company to write programs for his high school. Eight more companies and a computer engineering degree later, Bratton’s passion is his Lisle, Ill.-based Lextech Labs, which makes the iRa C3 mobile video surveillance app.
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Lextech Labs a HSIEC Grant Recipient
Lextech Labs was awarded an Entrepreneur Center Grant from the Illinois Homeland Security Innovation and Entrepreneur Center (HSIEC) in June 2010. This grant is established through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
The company’s product C3™ distributes realtime video to the people that need it the most, like first responders, law enforcement and government agencies. It is the preferred mobility viewing and control solution for security and crisis response teams throughout the world. C3 provides realtime situational awareness to facilitate communication and time-sensitive decision making. Recent upgrades include the ability to view recorded view and live video in a split screen format.
“Since 2001, the United States government, businesses and citizens have spent millions of dollars on video equipment to combat crime and terrorism. Our mobile viewing platform, C3, unlocks the video from a monitor and places directly in front of the people that need it the most. Receiving this grant allows to continue on our mission to provide critical video, anytime, anywhere.” said Alex Bratton, CEO and Founder of Lextech Labs.
“Putting tools in the hands of responders and security professionals who have boots on the ground can save lives and prevent destruction,” said Bret Johnson, director of HSIEC. “LexTech supports HSIEC’s mission to protect our nation, its people, and its critical infrastructure.”
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Lextech Labs shows C3 at Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Launch
Lextech Labs was honored to be a presenter at the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Launch Event in St. Louis at thee Kemp Auto Museum on November 30 and December 1, 2010. The event featured a live simulcast of Verizon Wireless, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Tony Melone, announcing the official launch of the 4G LTE network on December 5, 2010.
Lextech Labs presented our flagship product, C3, to a government vertical customer group, demonstrating how live incident management and mobile investigations are made easier by allowing the user to be closer to the scene. And with the launch of the 4G LTE network showing speeds of 10 MBps Up and 5 MBps Down, the delivery of video will become even easier and faster.
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Lextech Labs CEO and President at Mobile Visionary Roundtable
Alex Bratton, CEO and Jeff Gibson, President of Lextech Labs will be participating in the Mobile Visionary Roundtable event on December 15, 2010. Alex will be the moderator and Jeff will be a panel participant. Both have extensive experience and knowledge on the mobile application market and how to be successful in it.
For more information on the event, click here.
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Lextech Labs CEO, Alex Bratton on SIM Panel
Tom Kuczmarski, Co-Founder, Chicago Innovation Awards will moderate a paneled discussion with four of this year’s Chicago Innovation Award winners. They are true innovators from organizations that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations, achieve financial success, and improve people’s lives. For more information on the event, click here.
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| Rhon Daguro – Co-Founder and CEO, Touch Taste Technologies, People’s Choice Award winner for their innovation with TouchLife Interactive Tables. | Mike Samson – Co-Founder, crowdSpring for their innovation with an online crowd-sourcing marketplace. |
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| John Vasilj – Chief Technology Officer, Chicago Transit Authority for their innovation with CTA’s Bus Tracker. | Alex Bratton – CEO, Lextech Labs and Lextech Global Services for their innovation with the iRa C3 intuitive video command center. |
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Campus Police Featured Case Study
University of Illinois Campus Police
VMS: Milestone XProtect Corporate
Using C3 to Increase Presence for Events and Monitor Campus Activities
Force Multiplier
Campus Police at the University of Illnois Urbana-Champaign are responsible for public safety in over 286 buildings housing 17 colleges and instructional units, covering over 1,400 acres and over 53,000 students. The university is also home to 14 major sporting facilities. In addition to day to day academics, the University hosts the largest Greek community in the US. The 55 member campus police mission, of course, is to keep students, faculty, staff and visitors safe throughout their time at the University.
With the sheer size of their mission, it is no surprise that the progressive organization was looking for a way to provide real time, reliable video surveillance to all of their officers and personnel.
“It is important to campus safety for our officers to have a presence during regular school days and evenings, as well as major events on campus,” said Detective Tim Hetrick. “Our goal is to always be in a position to respond to threats to public and individual safety.”
Cameras and Technology
Chief Barbara O’Connor quickly realized that in order to best serve the needs of this large campus that the security system needed to be centralized. By utilizing Axis Communication cameras and Milestone XProtect Corporate VMS, the campus police are able to manage all cameras in a central location. Future plans include a gradual three to five year deployment of roughly 4500 cameras.
Once the centralized system began to take shape, Chief O’Connor and Detective Tim Hetrick needed a way to take that video surveillance to mobile devices. This is when the university added iRa C3 from Lextech Labs to iPod touches that are provided to the officers while on patrol. Through a donation to the university, the campus police department started using the iRa C3 software at the beginning of this school year.
“Installation of the C3 client was quick and painless,” said Detective Hetrick. “And it amounts to about 1% of the total investment of video equipment on campus,” added Chief O’Connor.
Broader Partnerships Changing Video Usage
Detective Tim Hetrick displaying C3 on his iPod touch.
“By utilizing this technology, we are seeing broader partnerships with other organizations and public safety officials on campus,” said Chief O’Connor. “Now organizations like fire safety are considering implementing the iRa C3 technology to allow them to obtain a better view of fires in buildings to assist getting people out safely and quickly.”
Like most universities, each individual department makes the decision on deployment of a surveillance system. With this new installation within the campus police, other departments are finding the value in easily managing, deploying and viewing their video. And while departments still have the final decision on the investment, technical specialists like Detective Tim Hetrick assist other departments with equipment and software recommendations.
Unofficial
In 1996, local establishments began a “tradition” of an unsanctioned bar promotion called “Unofficial” which is a mardi-gras type of celebration. Annually, campus police and University administration work diligently to mitigate risks associated with this series of celebrations.
Detective Hetrick says, “Unofficial has become an annual occurrence focused on high risk use of alcohol students and guests at the U of I and it brings with it, many issues and problems. Every year we increase the number of officers on the street by huge numbers and it is still difficult to manage the crowds and obtain real-time information. There are certain areas and buildings that require constant monitoring during this event.
Now, this year, in using iRa C3, we will have better eyes on all areas of campus and will be able to quickly respond to any incidents. Plus with the video component, we have a better chance at apprehending suspects.”
C3 Fits into Future Tech Plans
Currently, the officers are using iRa C3 to view 20 different cameras in high traffic, high incident areas on campus. Future plans include a connection to over 200 of the internal and external cameras on campus.
The expectation is that other departments on campus will deploy the software as well.
Message
The most important outcome of the installation of the new cameras, the Milestone system and iRa C3 is to make the University of Illinois campus safer for everyone. And that the campus police organization can be leaders in the usage of technology to maintain that safe environment.
“We want potential suspects to know to stay away from the University of Illinois,” Chief O’Connor stated, “the campus is secure and our officers quickly react.”
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