Giving surveillance brains

October 2017 Surveillance

An average person probably believes surveillance systems are primarily a forensic tool to be consulted after a problem or incident occurs. You largely have to agree, because whether a site has 20 or 2000 cameras, or if it employs one or a dozen operators, the live video stream is effectively background noise to the newspaper, smartphone, or any other thing happening.

This article, however, is not here to debate the things we can see, but to shed light on the less visible changes that are happening under the hood in the ‘brain’ of your surveillance system, the computer.

To fully harness the power of any system, you first need its human interface. That is why Avigilon has launched a new version of its Avigilon Control Centre (ACC) 6. Its analytic features stem from thousands of hours of continuous deep learning artificial intelligence R&D built on a foundation of object classification, which allows the computer to learn and understand the physical world and send the information back to us in a way that helps us navigate it.

Take for example Avigilon Appearance Search, a feature in the ACC 6 software. By just clicking on a person in a video, you can find all occurrences where that person was recorded in a time-linear way across all cameras in your site. Imagine how quickly you could find a person in a shopping mall; find the owner of a backpack that was left unattended in a museum; or find whom a person of interest interacted with while they were on site.

These video clips can easily be protected from being overwritten and can be exported for further investigation. Avigilon Appearance Search technology enables operators to be more efficient by reducing response times to on-site events.

Additional key features of ACC 6:

• Licensing can be set up remotely.

• Licences can be aggregated and not tied to individual servers within the site.

• Operator UI improvements.

• Standard edition now has 20 rules for increased analytic detection.

• Designated ONVIF conformant for easy integration with third-party cameras and specialised support when required.

• Improved security, including Secure Remote Password (SRP) and cross-compatibility with ACC 5 software.

• Supports up to 250 Avigilon Appearance Search analytic-enabled cameras across multiple servers; up to 150 on a single server.

• Key enhancements to cybersecurity protections.

For more information contact Avigilon, +27 (0)79 079 6528, [email protected], www.avigilon.com





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