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. ) September 7th, 2012 To Whom it May Concern, In 2010, the City of Doral awarded a publicly noticed request for proposals to Aware Digital, Inc. for a city-wide video surveillance and license plate recognition system. This camera project is modeled after those used in some of the greatest cities in the world, London, Paris, Barcelona, Chicago and New York City. The idea is simple enough, concentric circles of protection. A city determines what sites are important, schools, parks or other key infrastructure locations and begins to layer a perimeter around those sites to make them safer. In the case of our City, there are geographic choke-points that make it possible to monitor the ingress and egress of anyone traveling into our City. This project is using the latest s license plate recognition system (LPR) to capture people entering into our city. We will also be deploying it around our schools and parks. The LPR system will interface with FCIC/NCIC and notify us of wanted vehicles, AMBER or SILVER alerts, and finally known sexual predators. Additionally, once the system is fully deployed, it can have an ancillary benefit to our community in allowing citizens or businesses to "opt in" and place cameras in their respective business or communities which would enhance our overall effectiveness. For the past few years, I've had the opportunity to work very closely with Aware Digital on this project for the City of Doral. This particular project is the largest of its kind in the United States. When completed we will have 17 highly trafficked intersections, each with every lane capturing license plates in real-time using over 100 fixed license plate recognition cameras. In addition, each intersection will have full high definition video surveillance coverage, all riding on a newly installed city-wide wireless network. Any project of this scale will undoubtedly have its challenges and this project was no exception. The City of Doral and Aware Digital have faced challenges at every turn; however, through hard work and dedication we have shared our vision with other agencies and have progressed to the point that the project is at 80-percent completion. To date, Aware Digital has worked tirelessly and with the City's help, the County allowed us to implement a unique solution and the first of its kind in Miami-Dade County. We are utilizing traffic signals from Miami-Dade to mount our equipment and have met and exceeded all of the County's stringent requirements to make this happen. These challenges have caused our project to be delayed from its original target completion date, but Aware Digital has been able to continue its commitment to the project and is now quickly bringing the project to completion. Additionally, Aware Digital was selected by Miami-Dade County Police to operate their LPR system and we will be contributing all of our data to that initiation in an effort to foster inter-agency data sharing and a breakthrough new program. 8420 Northwest 52'Street,Suite 100 • Doral, Florida 33166 • (305)593-6699 • Fax: (786)871.1501 www.doralpd.com