Company’s Patented VuLink Connectivity System Allows Law Enforcement Agencies to Gather and Record Evidence From Multiple Perspectives by Seamlessly Communicating Between In-Car Video Systems and Body Cameras.

Digital Ally, Inc., (DGLY) which develops, manufactures, and markets advanced video surveillance products for law enforcement, homeland security, and commercial applications, announced that the number of inquiries that it has received from law enforcement agencies interested in its FirstVU HD Officer-Worn Video System has increased dramatically since the national media began covering the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

"The civil unrest that has resulted in riots and looting of local businesses in Ferguson, Missouri during the past week has drawn national attention to the critical importance of audio and video documentation of evidence collection involving law enforcement officers," stated Stanton E. Ross, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ally, Inc. "Police departments and other law enforcement agencies have long recognized the value of in-car video systems in documenting the activities of public safety officers and the persons they apprehend upon suspicion of traffic and other violations of the law. An audio/video recording often proves to be invaluable in court because it can answer critical questions regarding inappropriate actions by either the law enforcement officer or the person who may have broken the law."

"Oftentimes, however, officers must exit their vehicles in order to pursue and/or investigate an incident, and in-car video systems are relatively ineffective if such activity occurs outside the field of view of vehicle-mounted cameras. This has resulted in an emerging and rapidly growing market for officer-worn body cameras that can document events occurring within, in near proximity to, and up to several hundred feet away from the officers’ vehicles. The FirstVU HD was introduced last year, and we believe it provides law enforcement agencies with the greatest value in body-worn audio/video recording devices at a highly competitive price."

"Since its market launch, the efficacy of the FirstVU HD has been complemented and expanded by ‘live streaming’ capabilities, cloud-based storage and access, and the recent introduction of our patented VuLink connectivity system, which allows body cameras and multiple in-car video systems to be automatically or manually activated simultaneously," added Ross. "Our recent receipt of an initial patent on the VuLink system has ideally positioned Digital Ally to offer the most flexible and comprehensive recording capabilities to large and small law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. and in over 40 foreign countries. The unfortunate events in Ferguson, Missouri have clearly awakened the law enforcement community to the risks associated with inadequate audio/video documentation of virtually all activities that occur when officers on duty interact with the public. Some state governments are considering legislation that would require all law enforcement vehicles and officers to be equipped with some sort of audio/video recording capabilities."

If an officer is away from his or her vehicle when an incident occurs, VuLink will allow the officer to remotely start recordings on both the body camera and the in-car video system with the FirstVu HD.

When the officer returns to headquarters, the recordings are uploaded into Digital Ally’s proprietary VuVault software management system, which can link the evidence recorded by the body camera and the in-car video system together into a single, comprehensive, and time-sequenced incident report.

VuLink provides a truly effortless way to capture an in-car video’s broad view of an incident, which can include the officer wearing the body camera, as well as the frequently crucial evidence as seen from the officer’s perspective.

VuLink also enables the cooperative linking of multiple vehicle-mounted video cameras and the FirstVU HD body-worn camera system.

For example, when a vehicle’s lights are activated, the body camera will automatically begin recording simultaneously with the vehicle’s video system, thereby removing any distraction to the driver or the chance that the officer may forget to activate a recording manually.

When the FirstVU HD and VuLink are combined with the Company’s flagship DVM-800 In-Car Video System, which was introduced to the market in December 2013 and accounted for 36% of Digital Ally’s revenue in the second quarter of 2014, the Company believes it offers the most cost-effective audio/video evidence collection system available in the marketplace today.

The DVM-800 features four cameras, dual-camera simultaneous recording, wireless download, 720-pixel resolution that maximizes quality within storage space requirements, secure redundant recording to allow a continuous loop to be saved on the internal memory while individual incidents are saved on a removable SD card, a 2.4 Ghz wireless microphone, an integrated 3.5-inch color monitor that is invisible when not in use and supports an automatic back-up camera display, GPS with interactive back office incident mapping, detailed vehicle and metadata, minimum 32GB of solid state memory, pre-event recording to capture events that occur before a recording is activated, automatic recording triggers, a “mark” button to tag important events and locations, internal battery backup and LED status indicators, among other features.