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Self-contained, solar-powered cameras give operators a security solution for remote
sites that is easy to deploy. Thanks to advances in antenna and data compression technology, these cameras can transmit video feeds even when they are in areas that appear
to lack connectivity.

possible even at sites that are miles away
from the nearest cellular tower and appear
to be in connectivity dead zones.

Monitoring
Once security systems are deployed,
they need to be monitored in real time.

Instead of looking at footage or access
logs only after discovering an issue, companies want to know what is happening
as it occurs so they can respond immediately and minimize the negative impacts.
But monitoring every camera at every
site manually is prohibitively expensive
(and tedious for the individuals tasked
with doing it). This is where edge and
cloud computing come into play. When
smart cameras detect unusual events, they
send footage to the cloud for review by
artificial intelligence-based algorithms,
which look for discrepancies that deserve
human attention and send alerts to appropriate parties.
To be effective, the anomaly detection
algorithms need to be sophisticated. If
security managers receive alerts and
review the footage only to discover swaying branches or cars driving on a nearby
highway, they'll quickly learn to ignore
the alerts. But if the algorithms only send
notifications when someone hops a fence
or fiddles with the gate, the security managers will trust the system enough to
open alerts immediately, review the footage
and decide what needs to be done.
If the cameras or other parts of the se-

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he says, that the Pipeline and Infrastructure
authorities, which exist to facilitate project
development as well as to market Wyoming
resources, weren't being effective.
The Infrastructure Authority, especially,
Obermueller charges, "seemed to spend
a lot of time on wind energy, which is
fine, except it seemed to be excluding
other energy industries."
PAW's only concern with HB 3 was
representation, Obermueller affirms. Happily, he says, two PAW members are on
the first Energy Authority Board already
appointed by Governor Gordon, including
PAW Chairman Paul Ulrich, director of
government affairs for Jonah Energy LLC.
"My hope is the Energy Authority will
be similar to Utah's Energy Office, where
they have a dedicated office and staff at the
state level that can help drive energy policy
in Wyoming," Obermueller expresses.
Finally, he says, HB 13 provides legislative oversight and statutory authority to
the governors' sage grouse executive orders
initiated by Governor Matt Mead in 2011.
It establishes a program for compensatory
mitigation credits, including creating mitigation accounts, and amends the duties of
the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners,
according to the bill's title.
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