The Analytics Container Environment (ACE) is a tool developed in support of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division, which provides a modular framework for running containerized analytics on streaming video.
The purpose of the NIST ACE project is to enable easier prototyping of cutting edge analytics to the public safety community. ACE aims to overcome some of the current challenges in prototyping analytics to the public safety community, which include technical challenges such as the lack of standard interfaces between analytics, the experimental nature of analytics (not designed to function as a part of a pipeline or distributed system), and the “black box” nature of analytics. Public safety organizations face other logistical, policy, and resource challenges as well, but our hope is that by addressing the technical challenges and reducing the cost and complexity of deploying analytics over the course of the NIST ACE project, interested organizations will be able to experiment with and utilize analytics in their environments.
Thus far our goal has been to create an open source, modular, analytic microservice framework and toolkit that would serve several purposes:
https://github.com/usnistgov/ACE
https://github.com/usnistgov/ace-ui
PSCR2020:
https://www.nist.gov/ctl/pscr/ace-framework-creating-testing-transitioning-analytics-public-safety
aceinfo [at] nist.gov (aceinfo[at]nist[dot]gov)
Ace is part of PSCR: www.nist.gov/ctl/pscr