Scyron – a UK based intelligent surveillance company – offers an incident-based security and surveillance system based around a smart incident recognition algorithm.
The intelligent algorithm can be used to trigger a surveillance camera to record a specific event. Or, secondly, it can be used retrospectively to analyse footage and search for a specific incidence – such as a door being opened. Several zones can be tagged and interrogated in one video scene.
In police work, for example, it has been used to set a camera to capture only people lingering longer than a specific time such as five seconds, at a known haunt for drug dealers while ignoring passers by.
The company also claims that it can reduce the time it takes to analyse a 24 hour tape from one week to less than 24 hours, as well as saving 90 percent of the cost.
Scyron is selling its equipment either as a complete system, or as a bolt-on to existing CCTV systems.
Interestingly, the company is making a specific pitch at those concerned by the civil liberties and human rights implications of wide-spread CCTV coverage, arguing that ‘Big Brother need not be watching you’.
“There are over 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK making us the most spied upon country in the world,” said Scyron CEO, Mike Wilks. “Collectively, they record around 35 billion hours of footage. The cost of analysing footage of everyday people going about their business costs tax payers millions of pounds every year. What our technology does best, is to sort the wheat from the chaff by helping target the criminals.”
The technology was developed by former University of Birmingham scientists based at the company’s headquarters and labs at the University of Birmingham Research Park. Up until now the privately-owned company has been targeting law enforcement and public sector customers, but Scyron now hope to build market share in the wider private security sector.
