Ovation Puma

Automated media card archiving with Blu-ray drive option

Ovation PUMA offers fast and secure archiving of video, audio and picture evidence gathered on removable flash memory cards and USB data sticks. Ovation PUMA is evidentially secure and was developed in conjunction with the UK Police and meets the Digital Imaging Procedures laid down by the UK Home Office.

The key to PUMA is its simplicity. Once a flash memory card is inserted into PUMA’s multiple card reader, just one button press is all that is required to generate a bit-for-bit master copy of the evidence to a CD, DVD or Blu-ray. Additional working copies are then easily generated, with the option of authoring Ovation’s FlashBack-2 files to DVD video disk. Once archiving is complete, PUMA can securely erase the card by over-writing each and every bit of data.

This type of archiving operation using a standard PC requires a number of software packages, specialist training and is potentially evidentially insecure.  With PUMA, handling and archiving of highly sensitive media card evidence is now quick and easy, requiring minimal operator training. 

PUMA has been very well received by the UK police and won second place in the 2009 Equipment Technology and Innovation Awards organized by the UK’s Home Office Scientific Development Branch.  

Applications

  • Production of Master Exhibit and working copy from flash card data for use in criminal and civil courts.
  • Fast and secure backup of camera images, audio and video data in professional applications.
  • Conversion of RAW images to JPEG's.
  • Cloning of flash cards and USB drives.
  • Authentication of evidential data and maintenance of evidential audit trail.


Front Panel Front Panel
Rear Panel Rear Panel

Ovation Puma Specification

Size190 x 100 x 202 mm (width, height, depth).
Weight:1.92 kg.
DC power input: 1.5 Amps at 12 V DC typical (surge to 5A possible).
Media Cards supported:Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Microdrive, MultiMediaCard,
SD Memory Card, SmartMedia Card, Memory Stick Duo,
Memory Stick PRO Duo, CompactFlash Card,
USB memory stick (FAT/FAT16/FAT32 for file copy).
Card size supported:Up to 64 Gbyte (spans multiple Disks).
Optical disks supported:CD-R, DVD +/-R (4.7GB), +RW, (ISO 9660). With Blu-ray option,
BD-R (25GB), BD-R DL (50GB).
DVD transfer rate:Up to 24MByte/s (18x).
Flash transfer rate:Up to 19.6Mbyte/s with fast cards (eg. SanDisk Extreme III).
Operating System:Proprietary Linux.
Internal Disk:Solid state flash read only.
Startup time:22 seconds.

Product Codes

Product CodesDescription
PU1B-5514Ovation PUMA automated media archiving system supplied with PSU and Euro mains lead.
PU1B-5515Ovation PUMA automated media archiving system supplied with PSU and UK mains lead. 
PU1B-5516Ovation PUMA automated media archiving system supplied with PSU and US mains lead. 
PU1B-5672Puma automated media card archiving system to BLU-RAY disk, supplied with PSU and UK mains lead.
PU1B-5678Puma automated media card archiving system to BLU- RAY disk, supplied with PSU and Euro mains lead.
PU1B-5679Puma automated media card archiving system to BLU-RAY disk, supplied with PSU and US mains lead.

Due to continual product development Ovation Systems reserve the right to change specifications without notice. E&OE.

Our Products

Features

  • Simple, easy to use dedicated unit for archiving picture, video and audio evidence gathered on flash memory cards to CD, DVD disk or Blu-ray.
  • Bit-for-bit master transfer of card contents with data verification.
  • Additional working copies are easily generated.
  • Automatically authors Ovation FlashBack-2 files to DVD video disk.
  • Optional full erase (overwrite) of card data after archving.
  • Meets the requirements of the UK Home Office’s Digital Imaging Procedures.
  • Compliments Ovation’s range of covert digital video and audio recorders.