From the leaders to the laggards of technology everyone accepts that video surveillance is sailing through a sea of change. The effects are significant, not least for those that don’t always consider the underlying technology.
We are moving into a bespoke world of “video over IP”. Simply join an IP camera to an NVR, add in means of display functionality and you have the “latest generation” IP CCTV system! But what operational advancements are you going to utilise? And, have you REALLY advanced your system or just got the same results by different means?
Automated intelligence is what sets use of technology apart. (Now the sceptic in you will kick in.) You are probably assuming I’m talking about video analytics and you’d be right! But I’m going to do it with a different take.
Yes, I know…video analytics has – in general – been oversold and under delivered. But should every variance of the technology be tarred with the same brush, particularly when the basis and application of it takes a completely different form?
Video analytics mostly function as a result of meeting defined rules. But human nature and interaction hasn’t yet been profiled to a rule table, so why try and mirror this with technology? A system that only detects what you tell it to look for is a RULE BOOK using video – not a foolproof intelligent system.
If you can’t predict human nature and the course of events before they happen isn’t it then more logical to use analytics after the event? There is significant effect and added value in saved time alone using intelligence to search recorded video for key points of evidence, suspicious activity or presence of people, cars, object etc. throughout an entire recording system. The public are rarely recorded on a single camera–they are spread over several cameras at different times. If you need to retrace their movements searching for every instance of them is going to be time consuming particularly if you widen the time frame. Wouldn’t automating the process help you?
Still sceptical? Then email find@visimetrics.com or call 01292 673 770 and let us show you how.
