Category: Smart Solutions

Every business has physical and intellectual property. Often, we spend a lot of time and money protecting our intellectual property that we forget we need to be equally vigilant when it comes to our physical property. Imagine if someone stole all the laptops or hazardous material from our offices or warehouses – what would it cost you to replace them all? In these scenarios, just installing CCTV is not enough. You need to be able to prevent break-ins and thefts from ever happening, or quickly put a stop to them while they are in progress. This is where a perimeter intrusion detection system (PIDS) comes in. It is a device or sensor that detects the presence of an intruder attempting to breach the physical perimeter of a property, building, or any other secured area. A PIDS enhances your current security setup and gives you extra protection as it can alert you to a potential threat so that you can immediately use your CCTV system to pinpoint the exact location of the attacker on your property – all without needing you to employ a person to keep watch of activity on CCTV monitors. If you are wondering whether it is necessary

Video Analytics, also known as Video Content Analysis (VCA) , in Surveillance,  has been around for many years ever since the introduction of Digital CCTVs in the late 1990s.  Around the years of 2004 and 2005, companies specialising in VCA started appearing, providing solutions that analyse changes in the scenes to help in security monitoring.  The most commonly available analytics then were object detection, unattended objects, virtual tripwires or boundaries and with some offering object identification as well.  All these were based on analysing the changes in the scene which is actually changes in the pixels of images.  The applications using these early VCA were mildly successful.  Mainly use to alert guards to anomalies in the video stream and most of the time producing more false alarms and then real events.  Today, VCA incorporates more sophisticated analysis thus making themselves more useful as a surveillance tool, some are even expanded to help businesses analyse their operations and customer behaviours.  This came about with the advancement of higher resolution digital cameras that provide clearer images for the VCA to analyse.  Secondly, with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning techniques, the VCA can actually learn the scene and adjust to the environment, ignoring environmental factors and accurately