LONDON (Reuters) - When English soccer fans take to the terraces next season, there's every chance they won't just be watching the game, they'll be being watched watching the game too. In the latest addition to what civil liberties campaigners have dubbed Britain's "surveillance society," a British company is in talks to supply wireless CCTV technology to a Premier League soccer club's security staff.Hidden in lapels and hats, minute cameras would allow spotters in the crowd to beam live pictures from inside the stadium back to a control room where the images could be scanned in real-time for troublemakers and hooligans. Already trialled in city centres across Britain to cut down on crime, the technology is also used to tackle cash-in-transit theft, an increasingly common form of robbery, and to protect VIPs, according to 802 Global, the company that makes it.
For the technology-savvy, each wearable system connects back to a fixed or deployable wireless mesh infrastructure using encrypted wireless communications. The advanced mesh technology means that the nodes automatically search out and link to their neighbours without any need for user programming on site. Multiple cameras can connect back to a single hub either directly or via one or more repeaters. The same infrastructure also supports rapid deployment cameras mounted on poles, walls or tripods.
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