(Newswire.net — August 29, 2014) Huntingdon Valley, PA —
Imagine having a guard who wore a blindfold and earplugs at all times and had no brain. After your employee gets mugged or your building burned down your guard gives you a fuzzy sketch of a guy in a ski mask and tells you that is the bad guy you are looking for. Doesn’t sound too good? Well, that is what a traditional video surveillance system does.
Now imagine that you can take that system and plug it into a little device, that is very smart, and it can recognize humans and vehicles violating rules you set like where and when you don’t want those people or vehicles to be allowed to go. It can spot people way off in the distance in rain, fog, glare, and low light, much better than a human could ever do. Being very smart it ignores dogs, birds, shadows, moving lights, trees swaying, trash blowing on the ground — all things that cause thousands of false alarms for devices that are not so bright. What happens next?
As soon as this little device does video analysis what is going on in a matter of a couple seconds it sends an alert to a central monitoring station and to any user’s smartphone and it puts a red rectangle around the intruder/ bad guy on the monitor screen and follows the bad guy automatically. Then, with the addition of loudspeakers to the site, the central monitoring operator or user can talk down to the intruder. It is not some per-recorded nonsense. A real person in real time is saying something like, “This is Commercial Security. You have violated a secure area. I am video-recording you. Police have been contacted. Leave this area immediately. I see you looking around. Start moving and leave at once.”
Are we far in the future? Yes and No. We are in 2014 and this is the technology. But it is far in the future from the standard dumb surveillance systems that just record to a DVD. Good news is that the existing cameras can be readily plugged into this, saving a lot of money. Insurance companies may provide a discount in premiums when this system is employed. It is a tried and tested system that has been used by Homeland Security, Naval Investigative Services, LAX, AT&T, GE, Cargill…and now the cost has come down dramatically over the years so that any business can get this and start increasing their profits by eliminating and preventing all sorts of losses from theft, arson, vandalism, trash dumping, and so forth.
Perimeter Protective Systems even offers this on a no-money-down rental basis. Plus you can
upgrade your cameras with our VideoIQ hi-def cameras that are infra-red and zoom in on motion to capture potential trespassers