ANALYTICS can detect suspicious movement from people walking along a street, detect terrorists walking around a hillside a mile away or pick an offender out from a sea of faces. These are just some of the misconceptions about current analytics. Was there ever a product so over-promised and under-delivered? The reality is analytics technology is still in its infancy.
- By Oliver Vellacott
- Jul 16, 2007
SEEDS of insanity have cropped up in society and are becoming a growing challenge for school security. The recent rash of school shootings, including the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech, signal an ominous trend.
TRANSPORTATION settings present challenging lighting, temperature and motion capture conditions for surveillance cameras.
- By Scott Takaoka
- Jul 06, 2007
CRIME never stands still. And in a big city like Chicago, with its fair share of criminals, police are always trying to stay a step ahead of the bad guys.
- By Brent Dirks
- Jul 06, 2007
CHECK fraud, ATM card skimming and similar crimes cost financial institutions billions of dollars each year. Banks, credit unions and other institutions are developing more aggressive loss prevention programs and are taking advantage of new and existing security technologies. Video-based applications are playing a critical role. Having evolved from simple, standalone recording devices, today’s top digital systems are helping financial institutions identify criminal activity and criminals while providing high-quality video evidence authorities need to successfully prosecute offenders.
- By Steve Langford
- May 03, 2007
THE latest official video compression standard, H.264, follows on from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. Where IP video systems will see the most benefit is in the ability to deliver the same high-quality, low-latency digital video with savings of up to 50 percent on bandwidth and storage requirements. To put it another way, it delivers significantly higher video quality for the same bandwidth.
- By Barry Keepence
- Apr 13, 2007
DIGITAL video surveillance has become the dominant, growing segment within the larger, multi-disciplined security industry in the past several years. Intelligent video capture software used to create the technology platform for DVRs has grown tremendously.
- By Jeff Brummett
- Apr 02, 2007
AS the security industry and those it serves evolve, it is no longer a question of whether you should switch to an IP video system—it is when you should switch over to IP video. Face it, it’s not just a digital world, it’s a network world, as well. In many cases, this is a result of technology crawl. For instance, you can still do your word processing with Word Star, the program you probably used when you first installed your analog CCTV system.
- By Mark S. Bavousett, CPP
- Mar 06, 2007
AS an innovator of varifocal lens design, Tamron sees the CCTV industry following consumer trends into the 21st century. The industry will migrate from standard, color resolution to high resolution, much like the progression from black and white to color images.
- By Steve Beaulieu
- Mar 02, 2007
IN the past five years, the world of video surveillance has experienced what is best known as the digital revolution. The migration from old, analog recording systems to DVRs has been sweeping. Walking the aisles at ISC West, one is bound to hear what has become an all too familiar murmur: “My, I can’t believe how pervasive and dominant DVR technology has become at this show.”
- By Del V. Salvi
- Mar 02, 2007
INTELLIGENT video analysis (IVA) is a surveillance technology that watches one or many video fields of view and detects, tracks, identifies and analyzes movements and behaviors of objects or people.
By noting the presence or absence of objects, and the location, direction and speed of movement, the technology detects movements or behaviors that deviate from specified parameters.
- By Yossi Massafi
- Feb 05, 2007
THE past year has seen an explosion of technology in the world of video surveillance. Industry professionals have been selling video technology for years, but the recent advances in technology and price reductions in hardware have opened the door for more dealers to get involved with video sales.
- By Michael J. Joseph
- Feb 05, 2007
RECENTLY, security dealers and integrators in the access control industry have seen a great shake-up. Widespread demand and overall adoption of IP-compatible devices has, in many cases, introduced security dealers to the IT world for the first time.
- By Steve Dentinger
- Jan 24, 2007
SECURING the flow of oil from offshore platforms, land-based drilling rigs and pumping stations across miles of pipeline and infrastructure is a top priority for the government and the petroleum industry.
- By Brooks McChesney
- Jan 24, 2007
THE IP video market is growing rapidly, having been accepted as a mature technology with a field proven record.
- By Oliver Vellacott
- Jan 03, 2007
TODAY'S world is faced with every-evolving technologies -- a world of ones and zeroes. Digital communication and storage networks have greatly facilitated access to information in every technology sector, and video security is no exception.
- By Del V. Salvi
- Jan 03, 2007
NOWADAYS, it takes much more to have a safe flight, and airports are strengthening security to ensure passengers do travel safely.
- By Courtney Dillon Pederson
- Jan 01, 2007
ANALOG video has been replaced by digital technology in many enterprise-level organizations. And analog, being aligned with the VCR era, can be seen as outdated.
- By Andrew Wren
- Dec 03, 2006
THE security of critical infrastructure and facilities is vital in today's world. With recent advances in technology, there are more choices on how to protect facilities from crime, terrorism, sabotage and intruders.
THE core of most traditional, analog CCTV systems is the video matrix. The matrix is typically an electronics rack situated close to the control room.
- By Oliver Vellacott
- Dec 01, 2006