Beyond battery life: how the ecosystem brings out the best in the Axon Body 4

The latest Axon body-worn camera, Axon Body 4, is a cornerstone of the Axon ecosystem due to its ability to protect life by increasing officer safety and streamlining response, capture truth by recording interactions, and accelerate justice by streamlining evidence sharing.

The Axon Body 4 was built to be an incredible camera. Features like the powerful camera sensor, extended battery life and 160 degree field of view are all valuable to officers in the field. The benefits of this camera go far beyond battery life, however.

Let’s take a look at key features that make Axon Body 4 more than just a high quality camera.

Bi-directional communication and livestreaming

Enhance collaboration with Axon Body 4’s hands-free two-way communication feature, which enables field personnel to speak directly with command staff without tying up the radio. This feature allows command staff and/or dispatch to talk to an officer in the field via the Respond desktop or mobile app. All conversations are recorded and uploaded to Axon Evidence as part of the evidentiary video, just like any other Axon body-worn camera recording.

Livestreaming also allows support to have eyes on the situation in real-time. Officers can request a second set of eyes via a dedicated button on the camera whenever they’d like additional visibility and support from a supervisor.

Axon Fusus

The Axon Body 4 is a connected device in the truest sense of the term. In addition to capturing and storing evidence, the it now enhances situational awareness for agencies and creates a single pane of glass, thus increasing safety and visibility for officers, supervisors, dispatchers, and RTCC analysts. Axon Body 4 is fully integrated with Axon Fusus, where users can view officer geolocations and body-worn camera feeds to gain intelligence about an event as it unfolds.

This revolutionizes response in multiple ways: Not only can an officer receive instructions from command staff who has the clearest picture possible, but command staff can seamlessly share intelligence with other officers en route to respond, while simultaneously looking at data from different technologies like gun shot detection, ALPRs, and public/private video feeds.

Axon Evidence

As one would expect, Axon Body 4 footage can be easily uploaded, stored, and managed in Axon Evidence, our cloud-based DEMS. Axon Evidence breaks down silos by storing evidence in a centralized location while simultaneously eliminating the need for it to be stored on physical media.

Because of auto-wifi upload, footage from Axon Body 4 uploads shareable evidence for stakeholders in a timely manner, especially in the case of critical incidents. This feature serves as an alternative method to driving back home or to headquarters and docking the camera before the evidence is ready.

Axon Signal

Axon Signal Sidearm wirelessly alerts nearby Axon cameras to begin recording the moment you draw your firearm; its unobtrusive and doesn’t affect the draw of your weapon.

Axon Body 4’s integration with Axon Signal automatic activation technology means you can focus on the situation at hand, especially in the case of quickly-evolving or escalating scenarios, by activating cameras according to alert criteria. This automation certainly increases officer safety and has the potential to save lives while simultaneously providing crucial intelligence for agencies.

Priority Ranked Video Audit (PRVA)

Axon Body 4 technology can be leveraged in a training capacity as well. Features like PRVA make it possible to quickly find videos that contain language indicating specific behavior and surfaces footage with the highest volume of these keywords for review.

When a user audits footage, they click “Review Now” and begin watching the most relevant video based on keyword searching algorithms. Supervisors also have the option to watch multiple BWC feeds from the same incident as well as Axon Fleet footage in the same video player, in order to get multiple perspectives on an incident.

Agencies can customize their search to populate footage with specific phrases, whether they are positive or negative. This information can be used to identify areas for improvement or policy development.

Auto-transcription

Auto-transcription is yet another feature that makes Axon Body 4, within the context of the ecosystem, a unique public safety tool, not just another camera. AI is leveraged in Axon Evidence to quickly produce a transcript for investigative and evidentiary purposes.

The Review Assistant allows users to quickly find names, addresses, and other critical moments from Axon Body 4 footage. This is a massive time saving feature that streamlines a variety of tasks, including producing court-ready transcripts.

Draft One

Axon’s newest report writing tool, Draft One, is a critical time saving solution to prevent burnout and accelerate justice. Draft One leverages AI to convert speech to text from one or more Axon BWC recordings. How is this possible?

Audio from the footage is uploaded via LTE network and transcribed automatically so report drafts are available within five minutes of an incident ending. Draft One users must specify incident type before submitting, as well as sign off on the text to ensure its accuracy. These safeguards show our commitment to AI as a tool, never a replacement for the human element in policing.

Axon Body 4: more than hardware

Axon’s latest body-worn camera proves to be an effective solution not only because of its high performance and quality footage capture, but its ability to help users get the most out of the Axon ecosystem by boosting officer safety and streamlining workflows.

Want to learn more about how Axon Body 4 can benefit your agency? Contact us.