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== Conception == In the early 1990s, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was interested in finding ways to enable low-risk travelers to enter the United States from Canada at small ports of entry after inspection services had ended for the day. INS commissioned its contractor EDS, as well as the Department of Transportation John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center and its contractors Labblee Inc. and Bishop Systems to develop and deploy a system that transmitted audio, video and data to an inspector at a nearby 24-hour port of entry. The system was originally named "Remote Inspection Communicator And Remote Document Observer" (RICARDO), but the name was changed to Remote Video Inspection System (RVIS) prior to its first deployment. RVIS consisted of a series of cameras with pan/tilt/zoom capability, an amplified speakerphone, a card reader and a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD). There were vehicle sensors at the Canadian border that initiated the system, and exit sensors that alerted operators that a drive-by had occurred. There were also area lights, a text display and a traffic signal. Some ports of entry had electronic gates for traffic management. Inspectors at the remote location could control the PTZ cameras, and conduct a verbal interview with the driver and passengers. The first two RVIS sites were at the border crossings of Forest City and Orient in Maine in 1996. Before the end of the decade, RVIS systems had been deployed at the following ports of entry: * Forest City, ME * Orient, ME * Monticello, ME * Bridgewater, ME * Easton, ME * Limestone, ME * Pittsburg, NH * Mooers, NY * Scobey, MT * Whitetail, MT * Skagway, AK An additional RVIS System was planned for Morses Line, Vermont, but residents there informed the INS that they did not want the system. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remote Video Inspection System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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