It means intelligent video will be used more widely in the remote video monitoring market to filter out false alarms and “dramatically” reduce the cost of first response.
One of the pioneers of intelligent video, ioimage is expanding into this remote monitoring market, one of the fastest growing sectors in the security industry.
Its encoders and cameras are “edge” devices that verify a security breach.
Because they are set up and maintained from the network there is no need for onsite visits for adjustments to cameras and devices.
The company has partnered up with several software companies to add video analytics to the products they provide to remote monitoring stations.
Now video analytics is being provided at customer sites to improve detection, cut false alarms and give audio capability.
Devices can also carry out remote patrol guard tour inspections at specified times using PTZ cameras.
“These features are particularly significant in view of the new verified response laws coming into effect across the US which require verification of an event before police will take action,” says ioimage.
One company which designs, installs and maintains customized security solutions, iVerify, has equipped its remote video central station in Charlotte, North Carolina with ioimage video analytics.
The company provides project management for security at nuclear power facilities, construction sites, electrical substations and retail stores.
Jose Chavarria, iVeify’s senior VP of technology, said: “We previously used motion detectors, but the result was a ton of false alarms.
“Nearly all our new customers with outdoor perimeters to protect are using ioimage video analytics, and we’re seeing a fraction of the false alarms we used to experience.”
SureView Systems, active in with offices in the US and in the UK, added analytics to its video based central station automation software to more reliably detect events in the field.
Matt Krebs, executive vice president of SureView said: “Outdoor motion detection can be problematic in producing unwanted false alarm traffic”.
The video analytics has proven to be “very reliable and effective in generating useful alarm event notification”.
“By pairing it with our Immix software and combining an alert with video during an event, central station operators are made more situation-aware. A bounding box shows the operator what created that event, for example whether it was a person or a branch in the wind. Operators can instantly determine if there’s been an actual security breach or if you can move onto your next task.”
Visentry, which distributes intelligent video monitoring and operates its own monitoring station, integrated ioimage video analytics into its Virtual Sentry monitoring to offer customers in construction, warehouse and manufacturing remote monitoring with built-in PTZ-based analytics.
It meant that a single PTZ camera could be used to conduct an intelligent video tour that “in many cases is less expensive than a traditional solution using fixed cameras,” said Juda Slomovich, chief operating officer of Visentry.
“For example, a large yard would typically need six to eight cameras to adequately cover the perimeter. But when you deploy two PTZ cameras with a pre-programmed analytics-based tour, you cut the project cost by half.”
Zeev Farkash, ioimage CEO, said: “Remote monitoring can cost 80-90 percent less than traditional guards, but without instant visual verification of an event, frequent false alarms are inevitable”.
