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Phonehub IO Ltd

Phonehub Audio and Video Analysis

Analyse audio and video content from telephone calls and video calls in bulk. Receive transcriptions, keyword detection alerts, and sentiment analysis reports. Connects to external systems via a secure API. Ideal for enhancing security in prison communications.

Features

  • Audio transcription and analysis
  • Video analysis with participant detection and identification
  • Real-time dashboard for viewing reports and alerts
  • Keyword detection and alerts
  • Secure API access
  • Sentiment analysis

Benefits

  • Enhance communciations security through continual monitoring for keywords
  • Detect threats and potential illegal activities
  • Reduce staff resource requirement by automating monitoring
  • Reduce levels of contraband and identify supply lines
  • Identify unauthorised parties on calls
  • Ideal for use with telephone calls and video calls

Pricing

£0.45 a unit a minute

Service documents

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If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at alex.redston@phonehub.io. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

4 7 6 8 2 7 6 6 7 6 8 2 7 5 7

Contact

Phonehub IO Ltd Alex Redston
Telephone: 01603340589
Email: alex.redston@phonehub.io

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
None
System requirements
API capability required

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
During normal business hours we aim to respond within 2 hours.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Web chat accessibility testing
None
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
We provide support for both prison staff by email and telephone call with remote access via VPN for technical support staff where required.

All prisons have a direct named contact who can be reached 7 days of the week.

Phone and email support goes directly to both technical and customer service team. All queries responded to rapidly, typically within 1 hour. Technical support available within similar timeframes.

We operate as a social venture putting social impact above profit, therefore we do not charge for technical support where it is our software or service which is at fault. Where equipment may have been damaged by prisoners or another external cause we will charge an appropriate amount to cover our reasonable expenses and the replacement of any items which have physically failed or been broken.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Installation and training is provided for prison staff and management. Detailed documentation is included for reference, including training videos.
Documentation and instruction materials are provided for end users, including video guides.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Prison staff can, if required, extract data on audio analysis logs.
End-of-contract process
The customer can extract their data. Any sensitive customer data would be deleted.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Linux or Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Reports, keyword alerts, transcriptions, sentiment analysis, logs, billing
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Users can define the keywords on their watchlist and can customise the type and frequency of alerts.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Capacity automatically scales to meet scheduled demand. All hardware and network connections are chosen to be highly scalable.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Service usage - minutes of audio analysed.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
FIPS-assured encryption.
Secure containers - racks or cages.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Users can export their data from the system dashboard.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • Transcripts - text documents
  • Reports - text documents and PDFs
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
N/A

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Services are available 365 days x 24 hrs with guaranteed SLA of 99.9% of availability.
Approach to resilience
Available on request.
Outage reporting
Email alerts.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
2-factor authentication
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Two-factor authentication required to access management interfaces and support interfaces. Access is restricted using Role Based Access Control to approved user accounts, VLAN on the network and access to the network interface. Routing restrictions are in place with registered MAC addresses and access to the routers is restricted to admin's only. VPN's are in place to ensure the data is secure during transit.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Lloyds Register
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
05/07/2021
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
None of our business activities are not within the scope of our ISO 27001 certification.

Our statement of applicability excludes outsourced software development, which we do not engage in. All development is done in-house.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
Security Metrics
PCI DSS accreditation date
04/02/2022
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
N/A
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
We follow security processes as documented in our Information Security Management System (ISMS) Policy Manual, based on ISO27001 standards.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Phonehub IO Ltd has a formal documented Change Management process in place as defined in its ISO27001 management system. The Change Management Board (CMB) meet weekly to approve or reject requests for changes, to ensure the integrity of the process.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
For known product vulnerabilities we regularly apply all operating system and software updates. Daily automated third party vulnerability scanning using tenable.io
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Pervasive security controls with Next Generation Antivirus (NGAV); Endpoint Protection and Response (EDR); and Threat Graph
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Phonehub IO Ltd has a set of defined policies and procedures for incident management in accordance with ISO27001 best practice. The Information Security team will assess the seriousness of any situation and will take necessary action to limit any potential impact. All incidents are logged and reviewed.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

Climate change is something of great importance to Phonehub IO Ltd and we endeavour wherever possible to select partners who share these same values. For example, we have selected Google as our primary cloud provider, as they are committed to achieving net-zero emissions across all of their operations and value chain by 2030 and their UK operations are on track to operate at or near 90% carbon-free energy in 2025. Similarly, we chose Amazon Web Services due to their commitment to using 100% renewable energy and their goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Closer to home, we also encourage all of our team members to cycle and/or walk to work wherever and whenever possible. This not only lowers our carbon footprint, but helps encourage physical activity that is important for both physical and mental wellbeing.

Covid-19 recovery

Phonehub IO develop and promote local employment opportunities to support those made redundant and struggling with unemployment following the pandemic. Additionally, we work with local companies wherever possible and commit to identifying opportunities where we can support local innovation and economic recovery following Covid-19.

Tackling economic inequality

Phonehub IO Ltd offers all members of our team opportunities to learn new skills and encourages them to take advantage of one another’s expertise and training materials to boost their own skillset within a collaborative and supportive environment. Furthermore our applications are all aimed at helping prisoners and their families communicate more effectively. This directly supports the wellbeing of this disadvantaged group which has a positive impact on family ties, reducing re-offending, and in turn supports their future prospects for life outside the criminal justice system.

Equal opportunity

We prevent bias within employment by offering equal opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups; and never discriminating against any protected characteristics such as gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, or maternity/paternity. We work with prisons to create employment opportunities for prisoners in appropriate risk assessed positions. We seek to employ neurodiverse individuals who face specific challenges in mainstream employment. The benefit is mutual, unlocking the hidden potential and unique perspectives of individuals with autism. We provide an inclusive workplace, supporting our LGBTQ+ colleagues.

Wellbeing

In today's fast-paced and highly pressurised tech industry, where innovation and productivity are crucial, the well-being of our team is at the forefront of our agenda and we endeavour to support all facets of their wellbeing. We encourage all members of our team to promote their physical and mental wellbeing by walking or cycling to work. We also support social and intellectual wellness by encouraging our team to work collaboratively and gain insight into new ways to expand their knowledge and skillset. Communication and collaboration are at the core of how we operate and we are, not only, committed to empowering one another to be share ideas and ask questions, but embrace individual failure as an opportunity to learn and grow. As a tech company, we understand the personal growth and continuous learning of our developers is an invaluable investment for their wellbeing. When a new developer joins our team, we nestle them in a supportive and friendly group of peers who can guide them and support them in their growth and development and ensure they feel secure and confident in their role.

Pricing

Price
£0.45 a unit a minute
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at alex.redston@phonehub.io. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.