Security & Safety Things (SAST) is set to reshape innovation in video analytics and computer vision with the commercial availability of a number of new smart IP security cameras, from a variety of vendors, that leverage the SAST open and secure IoT platform.
This new generation of security cameras will run using the free SAST camera operating system, which enables the cameras to run multiple AI-enabled applications in parallel. The apps automate the analysis of video data to produce valuable operational intelligence for business optimisation as well as provide easy to deploy tools that can aid in re-opening measures from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Organisations of all sizes around the world need flexible, easy to deploy solutions that enable compliance with constantly changing pandemic health and safety mandates and provide future value to ramp up and optimise their ongoing business operations,” says Hartmut Schaper, chief executive officer, Security & Safety Things. “Companies can now deploy cameras, running the SAST OS and using a selection of apps from our Application Store, to detect the absence of facial coverings in a retail environment. Tomorrow, the same camera can help that same retailer to optimise merchandise placement based on store foot traffic, in one store or throughout the enterprise, along with further optimisations.”
Qisda/Topview was the first camera manufacturer to launch a camera running the SAST OS in May, followed in quick succession by AndroVideo. Bosch made its INTEOX camera line available in July, followed by camera firms Vivotek and BSTsecurity who plan to ship in Q3. The first devices from Hanwha Techwin that run the SAST OS are expected to be commercially available in Q4. Security & Safety Things, Hanwha, Vivotek, Bosch, Qisda/Topview and AndroVideo are also all members of the Open Security and Safety Alliance (OSSA).
The free SAST OS is built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). It leverages the expanding processing and analytic power of modern IP cameras to exponentially increase the amount of operational intelligence that can be mined from traditional IP-based surveillance footage.
The applications that can be installed on these cameras, both in an on-premise as well as a remote setting, are created by specialised third-party developers and are available through the platform’s open Application Store. It already features more than 50 applications from more than 35 developer partners, with more than 30 additional apps expected to hit the store soon. In addition to pandemic applications, use cases include detection of weapons, behavioural analysis, payment systems for parking garages, drone threat detection and even identifying objects presented for purchase in a cash register transaction for cashier-free retail environments.
Find out more at www.securityandsafetythings.com as well as the Application Store at https://store.securityandsafetythings.com.
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