# Genetec, Inc. A multinational unified-security-platform vendor headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Genetec's enterprise platform — Genetec Security Center — integrates video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (AutoVu), and analytics into a single operational system. The AutoVu product line includes both fixed/pole-mounted LPR cameras and the **Patroller** vehicle-mounted mobile LPR system (vehicle-mounted-camera + mapping + onboard processing). For the Arkansas Surveillance investigation, Genetec is the **pre-Flock LPR platform** at two documented Arkansas jurisdictions: [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] (deployed 2021 under federal PSN grant, see [[SkyCop Invoice 8381 — Pulaski County Genetec System]]) and [[Conway Police Department]] (pre-Flock LPR system documented in the 2022 SkyCop estimate, see [[SkyCop Estimate for Pre-Flock Genetec LPR System]]). Both Arkansas deployments were sold and installed by the integrator [[SkyCop, Inc.]] of Memphis TN; the corpus does not contain direct Genetec ↔ Arkansas-agency correspondence. ## Roles in this corpus - **The predecessor LPR platform at PCSO (2021-~2023).** The SkyCop Invoice #8381 documents Genetec product SKUs deployed at PCSO: 3 multi-camera enclosures with Genetec AutoVu cameras at fixed sites (Arch St / McArthur Dr / Frazier Pike in Little Rock and North Little Rock), plus a Genetec Patroller mobile LPR installed in Patrol Unit 913. Product line items: SC-G-AU-P-MBASE PATROLLER (AutoVu Patroller vehicle license), SC-AU-M-OFFLINEMAP-NA (North America offline mapping license), SC-AU-X-XPU-X1S (SharpX system main processing unit), SC-AU-XS-VGA-GENERIC (Generic Sharp XS VGA camera). Total invoice $75,287.29 against PCSO's $75,500 federal PSN grant. - **The predecessor LPR platform at Conway PD (~2022-2024).** Per the [[SkyCop Estimate for Pre-Flock Genetec LPR System|2022 SkyCop estimate]] produced in `PD-2026-477`, Conway PD operated a 6-camera Genetec Security Center / AutoVu system installed by SkyCop on an on-premise server. The Conway system was decommissioned (or partly so) when Conway transitioned to Flock in late 2024. - **The mobile-vehicle-mounted LPR contrast.** Genetec AutoVu Patroller is structurally different from the fixed-pole Flock Falcon model. The Patroller installed in PCSO Patrol Unit 913 is a vehicle-mounted system that sweeps plates wherever the officer drives — producing a different operational data shape than the 24/7 fixed-camera surveillance model. Flock's product lineup includes a mobile Falcon Flex but does not replace the Patroller model in functional terms. ## Notes - Genetec is a Canadian-headquartered private company. The corpus does not document the company's ownership, financials, or specific Arkansas business relationships beyond the SkyCop-channel deployments. Tier-2 web research (Genetec's official corporate disclosures) would be required to anchor company-background facts. - The **Genetec → Flock transition** at PCSO and Conway is documented in the synthesis [[The Genetec-to-Flock Pre-Flock Transition]]. The pattern — initial deployment of a vehicle-supplied LPR platform via a regional integrator, followed by transition to a vendor-managed cloud-platform LPR — is the corpus's clearest evidence that Flock Safety's network-managed model has displaced a generation of vehicle-supplied LPR systems in the Arkansas LE market. - **Genetec's product positioning is different from Flock's.** Genetec sells an enterprise-platform license that operates on customer-owned infrastructure (the on-premise server, the SkyCop-installed cameras). Flock sells a fully-managed cloud-platform subscription with vendor-owned hardware. The transition from Genetec to Flock represents a shift from on-premise software-license to vendor-managed cloud-service procurement — a broader IT-industry pattern visible in this surveillance vertical. - The corpus does not document operational comparison between the two systems (accuracy, hit-rate, integration capability, evidentiary quality of output) from the agency perspective. Such operational-comparison memoranda, if they exist, would document the decisional logic of the Arkansas agencies' platform transitions.