HomeChoice's ASBO Broadband TV
Posted: 02nd Jan, 2006 By: MarkJ
ISP and video-on-demand (VoD) provider HomeChoice has added a community CCTV camera (electronic neighbourhood watch) channel to its broadband TV line-up for customers living in the Shoreditch area:
This enticing vision of the electronic neighbourhood watch is offered by the Shoreditch Trust as a part of its Shoreditch Digital Bridge (SDB) project, which with the help of set-top boxes from IBM aims to build a broadband digital network covering 20,000 residents on housing estates in the Shoreditch area.
Alongside video on demand TV services from Homechoice, the SDB will offer a "Community Safety Channel" which will allow residents "to monitor estate CCTV cameras from their own living rooms, view a 'Usual Suspects' ASBO line up, and receive live community safety alerts." Will they get to press the red button to decide who should be ASBOed next? This could be vastly more entertaining than most TV is, these days.
It's difficult to see how the proposal could conform with the UK's CCTV Code of Practice, but it's sure to be of interest to the Information Commissioner. And if it ever flies, local police will no doubt also be impressed by the very, very, very large number of calls the system is likely to generate.
Education, health, consumer and employment channels with equally innovative interactive features are also planned. Now if they could only include an EXTERMINATE button on the ASBO channel =). More @ The Register.
This enticing vision of the electronic neighbourhood watch is offered by the Shoreditch Trust as a part of its Shoreditch Digital Bridge (SDB) project, which with the help of set-top boxes from IBM aims to build a broadband digital network covering 20,000 residents on housing estates in the Shoreditch area.
Alongside video on demand TV services from Homechoice, the SDB will offer a "Community Safety Channel" which will allow residents "to monitor estate CCTV cameras from their own living rooms, view a 'Usual Suspects' ASBO line up, and receive live community safety alerts." Will they get to press the red button to decide who should be ASBOed next? This could be vastly more entertaining than most TV is, these days.
It's difficult to see how the proposal could conform with the UK's CCTV Code of Practice, but it's sure to be of interest to the Information Commissioner. And if it ever flies, local police will no doubt also be impressed by the very, very, very large number of calls the system is likely to generate.
Education, health, consumer and employment channels with equally innovative interactive features are also planned. Now if they could only include an EXTERMINATE button on the ASBO channel =). More @ The Register.
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