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How Video Analytics is Changing the World of Security

by Doug_Marman

Security professionals draw upon decades of training and
experience when developing plans to protect sites and people.
Systems they design can cover a wide range of requirements, from
preventing accidental deaths in residential swimming pools, to
catching thieves in retail stores, to defending high-risk
facilities from attack or intrusion. However, the underlying
principles for security and safety are basically the same in all
applications:

- Situational Awareness: Knowing what is happening at the site,
along with the expected activities and potential dangers.

- Early Warning: Providing alerts and notification before
serious problems occur. The sooner you can identify potential
breaches or risks, the stronger your protection will be.

- Controlling Access: Limiting those who are allowed to enter
and when.

- Recording Activity: Capturing information to identify and
prosecute offenders creates a significant deterrent against
crime, and provides evidence for prosecuting criminals.

- Responsiveness: Preparation, training and tools to respond
rapidly and appropriately when an alarm occurs.

It is rare to find a single technology that can improve every
one of these five basic security functions at the same time.
Video analytics are producing exactly such an impact. More
importantly, systems that can extract information from video
promise to bring us closer to how ideal security systems should
operate:

- Unobtrusive for those who live and work on the premises.

- Automated, so they require minimal human effort when
everything is normal.

- Responsive to threats early enough to prevent problems before
they occur.

Advancements in all these areas created by video analytics
explain why this new technology might be the most significant
breakthrough for safety and protection in the last forty years.
Video Analytics promises to bring us closer to this ideal
solution than any prior technology. Advanced content analysis
systems today already have the ability to:

- Automatically extract information from camera feeds and warn
you when something might be going wrong. It is exactly like
having your own digital guard.

- Alert people anywhere in the world, providing them video
evidence of the detected event.

- Allow for live real-time remote viewing to track and stay in
touch with what is happening.

- Open up audio loudspeaker communication with the site, so that
intruders can be warned away immediately, before it is too late.

One remote guard using video analytics can now provide
protection for 50 sites or more, making protection far more
affordable than ever before. As importantly, all 500 to 1000
analytics managed cameras across those sites are continuously
monitoring every scene, providing superior protection. Guard tour
services, where guards physically walk through the premises on a
cyclical basis, can see only a small percent of what is
happening. This is no match for the lower cost and constant
surveillance gained through video analytics.

Studies show that after 22 minutes, guards watching a video
scene will miss up to 95% of all activity. The human brain is
simply not designed for long periods of constant watching and
waiting for something to happen. Video analytics, on the other
hand, is tireless. It never blinks or is distracted.

The most advanced technologies get smarter the longer they study
a scene. This is exactly what analytics do best.

Interested in learning more? A more in-depth version of this
story can be found at http://www.videoiq.net/products/resources

Doug Marman is CTO and VP of Products at <a
href="http://www.videoiq.net/">VideoIQ</a>, a leader in <a
href="http://www.videoiq.net/products">video analytics</a> and <a
href="http://www.videoiq.net/solutions">intelligent video
surveillance</a>.

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