video analytics

SAFR Appoints Eric Hess as Senior Director of Product Management

SAFR announced the appointment of Eric Hess as Senior Director of Product Management. Hess will lead the product strategy and will be responsible for expanding and accelerating the core SAFR application globally, with a particular emphasis on the public safety and gaming markets. Eric Hess is a well-known expert in the use of video analytics and facial recognition technologies for expedient resolution of criminal investigations.

PureTech Systems Awarded Contract for PureActiv Software

PureTech Systems announces it has been awarded a multiple site contract for the deployment of its PureActiv Geospatial Video Analytics and Sensor Integration Command and Control software. The system will provide wide-area perimeter protection at multiple electric power generation plants in the United States. This award follows extensive multi-year testing of its system to prove the ability to reliably detect challenging perimeter breaches by adversaries.

Agent Vi to Unveil Next Generation AI-powered Video Analytics at ISC West ‘19

Agent Video Intelligence announced the next generation of innoVi, Agent Vi’s AI-powered, open architecture video analytics solution for security, safety and business intelligence applications. Available as a cloud-hosted service or as an on-premise solution, innoVi employs deep learning algorithms trained specifically on surveillance footage, allowing for unprecedented detection accuracy. innoVi is uniquely designed to support large scale distributed installations, from monitoring stations to large enterprises, critical infrastructure to smart cities.

The Marriage Of Artificial Intelligence And Video Analytics

After spending the last six plus years selling and installing integration of video surveillance systems that deliver what is obviously needed in the marketplace, I’ve come to the realization that security so many integrators, in general,are not grasping “the big picture.”

Surveon Enhances Environment Security With Detection Video Analytics

Upon 24/7 surveillance scenes to capture every critical moment, without video loss, becoming more crucial to the business, Detection Video Analytics act as inevitable tools to detect moving objects in a video or avoid cameras damage to stop recording. Surveon Detection Video Analytics Solutions provide two ways of detection, including “Video Detection” and “Self Detection”.

Qognify To Acquire On-Net Surveillance Systems (OnSSI)

Qognify announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (OnSSI) and the OnSSI company SeeTec GmbH. In bringing these award-winning technology solution portfolios together under one roof —including Qognify VisionHub, OnSSI Ocularis, and SeeTec Cayuga— Qognify becomes one of the largest VMS, Video Analytics, PSIM, and critical incident management companies in the world. Qognify is backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures.

What’s In A Video Analytic

If we ask Wikipedia about video analytics we get redirected to video content analysis (VCA) and information about the capability of automatically analyzing video to detect and determine temporal and spatial events.
Many different functionalities can be implemented in VCA. Video Motion Detection is one of the simpler forms where motion is detected with regard to a fixed background scene. More advanced functionalities include video tracking and egomotion estimation. Now, I don’t really know what egomotion is but I do understand video tracking.

How Retailers Can Give Us What We Really Want

In his work on exploring the shift from analog to digital production in music, author and musician Damon Krukowski laments the fact that he can no longer just drop into his local music store. While he’s quick to acknowledge that digital music and streaming platforms allow for greater exposure and innovation for artists, he also feels that something has been lost.

Surveon HQ-Branch Solutions Facilitate Enterprise Security Effectively

Living in the era of global village, everything is rapid change. To keep up with the pace, the large-scale enterprises need to take every movement of branches in control, ensuring every policy has delivered well. HQ-Branch management, including central control, alarm synchronization, data retention and protection is becoming a great important challenge to enterprises nowadays. Without integrating lots of systems and management tools, Surveon HQ-Branch security solutions provide VMS with easy remote deployment, advanced VA for alerts and post events search, storage with large capacities for 365-day recording.

Surveon Video Analytics Optimize Your Business Operations

Surveon Video Analytic Solutions provide three advantages, including built-in 12 VA with license free, unique Post VA Search, and real-time alerts for various user-defined events, reducing time and efforts of management staff, making the surveillance system more efficient. Video Analytics (also called VA) can automatically analyze video and detect temporal and spatial events. Many different functionalities can be implemented in VA such as Motion Detection, it is a functionality to detect directions within the limits of the acceptance angle, any wrong direction will trigger an alarm.

Surveon Military Solutions Support Partners To Win Worldwide Projects

National safety is the foundation of a prosperous country, and a strict and complete surveillance system can help the first line army to keep the sensitive military areas in safe. Surveon military solutions has deployed in war ships around the globe, providing advanced and reliable performance for military use, ensuring the safety of citizen, soldiers and national property. Surveon military solutions support the world leading maritime and naval CCTV system integrator to win many projects in Northern America, Europe and Far East Asia.

Surveon Maximize Airport Safety With Complete Solutions

With aircrafts, cargos, passengers, luggage and store operation in one huge area, airport operation is one of the most complex tasks. With so many people and things bustling around, security becomes the top priority for every section from check-in areas, passport control areas to runways in the airport. Surveon airport solutions help the administration bureau to deploy security at the highest level. The complete solutions include wide areas covering cameras with advanced video functions such as WDR, RAID NVR with large extended storage, and the best C/P value VMS with built-in 12 video analytics, keeping airport a safe environment.

Arteco Announces Integration With Paxton’s Access Control System, Net2

Arteco, a global provider of video event management solutions, has completed its integration with Paxton’s networked access control system, Net2. The combination of these two leading solutions enables users to gain additional levels of intelligence from their security infrastructure. By integrating the Arteco Video Event Management Systems (VEMS) with Paxton’s access control platform through Arteco Open Connector, users can combine video and access control events to gain new insights into potential risks or incidents.

The Challenge Of Quality Video Analysis

The problem facing many strategic high growth markets that leverage real time video is no optical system or camera is optimized to deliver high-quality actionable video in every environmental condition. There are many applications that can benefit from Instant Visual Clarity in compromised video streams including: Security and Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Computer and Machine Vision, Autonomous Vehicles, Urban Traffic Monitoring, Smart Cities, and Video Analytics.

VIVOTEK’s Smart Stream III Makes Your Bandwidth More Efficient

VIVOTEK Smart Stream III combines Smart Stream II, Scene Awareness and Smart FPS technologies to enable the cameras to optimize quality for desired regions and automatically adjust encoding, maximizing bandwidth usage efficiency and lowering storage requirements while maintaining high image quality. Combining both H.265 and VIVOTEK Smart Stream III, the camera can reduce bandwidth and storage consumption more than 90% compared to traditional H.264 without smart streaming. VIVOTEK’s Smart Stream is a state-of-the-art video encoder enhancement that is fully compatible with both H.264 and H.265 standards.

Nortek Security & Control Acquires IntelliVision, Establishing Leadership In Artificial Intelligence And Video Analytics

Leaping to the forefront of the rapidly growing fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and video analytics, Nortek Security & Control LLC (NSC), a global leader in smart connected devices and systems for residential, security, access control and digital health markets, announced the acquisition of San Jose, California-based IntelliVision Technologies Corp., a pioneer and leader in Artificial Intelligence, smart cameras and deep learning-based video analytics software. IntelliVision will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of NSC. IntelliVision will continue to support its customers and products.

BriefCam To Be Acquired By Canon Inc.

BriefCam announced its acquisition by Canon Inc., a world leader in digital imaging solutions. The addition of BriefCam to Canon’s market leading Network Video Solutions products portfolio complements the Canon Group’s previous acquisitions of AXIS Communications and Milestone Systems with a breakthrough, innovative video content analytics solution. The acquisition will drive further, rapid innovation in video analytics by BriefCam as well as new co-innovation activities with Canon and its market leading portfolio companies.

Technology Growth And Partnerships Follow Successful ISC West For Manything

Manything showcased its Manything Pro solution at this year’s ISC West show. Security integrators and dealers who visited the Manything booth witnessed the many benefits that the cloud video solution provides. Manything Pro creates a new source of recurring monthly revenue (RMR) with ease; Manything can manage all billing and renewals, freeing an integrator or dealer to simply collect ongoing commissions.

Pelco And Ipsotek Announce Integrated VMS And Analytics Solution

Pelco has announced a new integrated solution based on the Pelco VideoXpert VMS with Ipsotek’s VISuite 10.1 advanced video analytics platform. The integration provides a solution that increases security, reduces investigation time, and takes the complexity out of managing the video and associated analytics in an overall surveillance network.

How Video Surveillance And Artificial Intelligence Are Making Moscow Safer

Moscow continues to bring video surveillance security to the next level, through a partnership that brings artificial intelligence technology in ways that will make facial recognition more accurate and more intuitive. Moscow’s Department of Information Technologies has recently finished deploying a city-wide, 160,000-camera video surveillance system that integrates facial recognition technology from NtechLab. Yet only a portion of those is currently active, due to the cost of implementing the technology.