Surveillance tower

## Trophy

**Amazing Coverage**
All Surveillance Towers activated

The **Surveillance tower** is a unique (to the Insomniac Spider-Man game series) technique to make the player travel around New York, unscrambling them to unfog the map. At the start of the game, the map is completely fogged and is not showing any active crimes, backpacks, Fisk hideouts, etc. in the district until in Keeping the Peace where Yuriko Watanabe asks Spider-Man to see if he can unscramble and activate the surveillance towers around the city, as for an unknown reason at the time, the surveillance towers weren't working; Spider-Man fixes them by unscrambling the wave frequencies being disrupted by a remote signal, however in doing this Spider-Man's suit paired to the surveillance tower and was now showing all crime activity in the area that the surveillance tower was picking up.

## Origin

Oscorp had developed new surveillance towers around the area and with Norman Osborn being Mayor at the time, had installed them around the city. Police Stations' funds had been cut as Norman Osborn had used it since it was developed for the Police Stations they were being used by, because they tracked crime around the city. After a few days, Fisk's men had used equipment to remotely disrupt the surveillance towers' signal, so they were rendered useless.

## Variants

The Surveillance tower has 2 different variants, the Triangular Based top surface, and the Rectangular Based top surface.

**The Triangular Based top surface** holds 3 smaller triangles fitted in at positions forming one larger triangle at the top, with a triangular hole in the center. The area of the triangle points face-up into the sky, and extends upwards once activated.

**The Rectangular Based top surface** holds 3 long rectangular pieces, fitted with 3 rectangles, one center piece and two on each side, that are angled inwards towards the tower from the center piece. The 3 main pieces are all positioned forming a triangular shape in a camera-down view, and when activated extend outwards.

## Spider-Man's Modifications

Spider-Man modifies each tower he's paired with to help him track other things, such as Black Cat Stakeouts, Landmarks, Fisk Hideouts, Backpacks and more. These help you throughout the game so that you can track specific activities in each district.

## Engineering (Theory)

The surveillance towers track RFID signals from around the area (Source: The tower accidentally tracks the RFID signal of one of Spider-Man's lost backpacks, which unlocks the backpacks around the map: "I put RFID trackers in my backpack so I wouldn't lose them"), originally aligned to Crimes filled in from the Police Stations around New York, however from some of Spider-Man's modifications he managed to also track some of the RFID signals coming from his backpacks, as those emitted them so that he wouldn't lose them. It also seems that the surveillance towers themselves produce specific wave-assigned RFID signals as when paired with the initial Police Station surveillance tower from Keeping the Peace he managed to track the other ones and fit them onto his map, and that may also be what the remote signal was disrupting; so that other signals couldn't be found on the surveillance towers the RFID signals coming from activities must have contained data of a wave that the surveillance tower would look out for. It could be that or the activities' RFID data for their location, type of activity, etc. were not properly decrypted without the wave frequency from the RFID signals produced by the surveillance tower being correct, with that also holding data inside of it.