New technology helps remove illegal tenants.

Owners and managers of rent-regulated apartments who are subsidizing a non-resident tenant's pied-a-terre can breathe easier.

VideoSave Inc. provides new long term video surveillance capabilities that enable owners of rent-regulated apartments to develop the bona fide surveillance evidence necessary for removal of non-primary and illegal tenants.

Detailed multi year monitoring enables the building owner to demonstrate that a rent regulated tenant must be maintaining a primary residence elsewhere.

Similarly, long term monitoring records the identities and comings and goings of tenants not legally entitled to the rent regulated apartment.

VideoSave appraises client premises, determines surveillance needs, and manages the installation of unobtrusive surveillance cameras.

Instead of recording surveillance images on a basement digital video

recorder or VCR, VideoSave rescues the surveillance record from this legal limbo and transmits video evidence via the Internet to VideoSave's secure offsite video vault.

Offsite archival also preserves investigative records in event of fire or other disaster.

Long term video monitoring also covers the legal liability created by the Bloomberg Administration's shifting of sidewalk responsibility to building owners.

All video frames are encrypted, compressed, and date-and-time stamped, to confirm tenant arrival and departure times, and to establish a legal chain of custody for the video evidence.

Date and time stamping of individual frames also enables building owners to call up specific video sequences, pinpointed to the second in multi-year archival periods.

The surveillance cameras also mark the time of tenant arrival and departure, so that a month's review of tenant occupancy takes a matter of minutes, rather than interminable monitoring of zero activity.

VideoSave enables building owners and their legal counsel to view password protected video records from any Internet enabled location on computers and Palm Pilots.

Besides issuing regular client passwords, building owners can provide short-term passwords that expire after a specific time--for use by legal counsel, police precincts, and other investigative authorities.

All surveillance cameras are automatically monitored at 5-second intervals.

If camera malfunction or loss of images is detected, the system transmits alarms via email, voice mail or pager. The system also transmits repair authorization directly to a service technician.

Based on hard drive RAID magnetic memory, VideoSave's video vault provides virtually unlimited video storage capacity.

The video vault is managed by Information Technology specialists whose sole concern is care and protection of client's video assets. (In contrast to the divided priorities of a typical building's security staff).

VideoSave I.T. specialists maintain state-of-the-art system performance by upgrading camera software, introducing latest video transmission and compression protocols.

VideoSave 1.T. professionals are qualified to represent clients in court. They can present pristine video evidence on wireless connected computers and projectors.

Fred Deutsch, VideoSave founder, says: "Offsite archival not only places video evidence beyond reach of tampering or sabotage, but is 'seen to do so.'

"Our third party management of video assets confers cast iron provenance unassailable in court," he says.