By RNZ
The $100,000 project by an Auckland company Safer Cities is under the Government's $25m pandemic research fund.
The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) said it would build on existing ways of using video footage.
People and businesses often voluntarily provided police with their live or recorded video footage, it said.
Officers generally had to access the footage in person, "putting people at risk" if there were an outbreak.