The Tampa Incident Command is in charge of coordinating security with 60 Federal, State, and local agencies in to ensure the safety of over a quarter million football fans during Super Bowl XLIII. Central to that coordination is Microsoft Surface which will provide staff with a digital birds eye view of the stadium and surrounding area allowing them to identify and track incidents over the course of the Super Bowl week.Credit goes to Microsoft, E-SPONDER, and Infusion for developing the Surface security solution. E-SPONDER provides a portal for reporting and coordinating incidents and its the data from this portal, in combination with the Falcon Eye technology developed by Infusion (demo here), that will allow security personell to see and coordinate emergency responses using Microsoft Surface at and around the big game. Information is available in an E-SPONDER press release as well as short blog posting by Larry Larsen at on10.net. How cool is that?!
Update February 5th, 2009
A video demonstration of a policeman using the Microsoft Surface device for Super Bowl security is now up - it adds a little more context to the story which has been very widely reported.
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