Today, Friday, Oct. 12, Endeavour will embark on
the “Mission 26: The Big Endeavour” road-trip to
retirement, which is a two-day, 2 mph journey
from Los Angeles International Airport across
the 405 Freeway and through the streets of L.A.
to arrive at the CSC on Saturday, Oct. 13, where
it will be on display starting Oct. 30.
During the journey, residents are encouraged to
watch Endeavour’s final trip from private lawns,
inside businesses and along side-streets, as
well as attend special viewing celebrations
throughout the city, including at the Great
Western Forum in Inglewood on Saturday, Oct. 13
at 8 a.m. PT, and then later that day near the
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza shopping mall
around 2 p.m. PT.
The primary challenge in securing an event of
this magnitude is that many of the security
needs from a technology perspective are mobile
and temporary. To cover the expansive 12-mile
route in a cost-effective way, the LAPD will
construct a wireless mesh network on the fly and
deploy HDTV-quality pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) Axis IP
surveillance cameras using a “leap-frog”
approach: As the shuttle passes beyond the first
camera’s field of view, it will be uninstalled
and then reinstalled at the front of the
surveillance network to continue the chain.
“Crowd and traffic control around major events
bring about unique challenges, especially when
it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event like this,” said
Michael Downing, deputy chief of the Los Angeles
Police Department and commanding officer of
LAPD's Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations
Bureau.
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