Take your security business to the next level in 2021

Is a technology that uses the computer to understand the environment and identify people, animals, or objects through the eyes of the computer. In this case they would be the cameras installed in the video surveillance system.

Is software for centralized monitoring and video analytics which allows security services businesses to monitor their cameras regardless of where they are located. It also provides tools needed to detect when something suspicious happens in a specific area – and even alert you when something occurs.

Video content analysis (VCA) can be thought of as the next step for centralized monitoring where you are able to process data from multiple cameras simultaneously much faster than ever before. Computer vision looks at what’s happening on camera and can make decisions based on what it sees. This type of centralized monitoring allows for security guards to focus their attention to where the computer vision is already watching, rather than having them look at a screen all day long trying to find suspicious activity.

Now that we are clear about the concepts we need to go further, let’s talk about the proven benefits of adopting these technology tools in your security services business.

Situational awareness means 80% of and operator’s job, it can be defined just as “Having knowledge about what’s going on around us or in an area”, to do that, operators must have a perception of the environment and its elements, the comprehension of what they mean and how theis statuses can change in the near future.

The fact is that operators can’t actually have a whole situational awareness due to the amount of cameras they are monitoring, so from the beginning the job is condemned.

Computer vision enhances situational awareness by providing information about context and not only recording video, but also understanding the video. In a centralized monitoring system, for example, CCTV cameras have relevant metadata about what is happening recorded (e.g., location of event).

Centralized monitoring software allows you to see what’s happening in multiple areas at once, and also helps with real time analytics. You are able to figure out the best way to respond based on visual information that is presented. For example data from a camera can be processed within seconds of recording it without human error or delay.

Statistics reveal that operators’ attention decreases at least 90% after the first 15 minutes in front of the control room monitor.

Alice Guardian never stops watching screens or looking for anomaly events, never gets tired, or loses attention. You can be sure that whatever happens on screen Alice will notice it, notifice it and guards can respond immediately.

The benefits of using a centralized monitoring system in CCTV security systems are numerous: the company saves time and money by not having to manage each camera individually; they also have all cameras under one platform which means their options are unlimited and they can make better decisions.

Centralized monitoring systems also allow for a more centralized, higher level of situational awareness thanks to operators being able to see what’s happening simultaneously at all locations while still managing their team and other business activities.

Alice Guardian allows businesses to centralize their cameras monitoring in one platform, independent of the cameras’ brand or localization. And only if they are ONVIF and use RTSP protocol.

VMS platforms can integrate with video analytics features or they are even built within the VMS platform, for example Alice Guardian.

The Alice Guardian platform has different video analytics modules, which can detect persons, guns, movement, actions, objects, people falling down, hands up, people running, intruders, faces, license plates, etc.

All these video analytics features can be fusioned in the same server and for one or more cameras.

This is maybe the most disruptive of these technologies … If computer vision allows computers to look or be the eyes, video content analysis would be like processing the image or being the brain.

Think of it like an artificial intelligence vigilant doing the job for you all day long, all week long without interruption.

VAC solutions help enhance the efficiency of professional staff as well as responding to emergencies quickly with accurate data in real-time.

This is possible thanks to the real time video content analysis which filters irrelevant information, reduces false alarms and can be connected to send alerts immediately when a camera detects a critical event.

Operational costs of centralized monitoring services are reduced by allowing less professionals to monitor more cameras at the same time.

Alice Guardian supports up to more than 100 analog or IP cameras per server and you can choose to add video analytics in strategic spot cameras, so they could diminish individual operational charge.

Independent on the industry you are in, or the work you do, there is surely a set up you can use to enhance your security services, no matter how specific or unique they could be.

Platforms with VCA capabilities might create specific rules or criteria to tell the platform when to send an alert, these criteria can be as simple or complex as your business needs.

Alice Guardian not only enhances security services operations, but also can add valuable information to other departments or areas within a company, just be creative and strategic.

Alice can fusion multiple analytics in the same server, you can use the same camera to extract so many different kinds of information from the environment, the employees or the work they are doing.

For example: a logistic transportation company wants to track automatically how long workers take to fill a truck with the needed packages, from the truck arrives the upload lane until it is gone.

Also, they want to know what exactly was the truck and at what time it arrives.

With Alice, using both perimetral and traffic analytics we could set up the features like this:

• With a camera we could read the license plate when the truck arrives in the upload lane, so we can know exactly which truck is and at what time it arrived.
• In the same camera we can start counting dwell time, and once the truck abandoned the upload lane, send an alert with total time used.
• We even could alert when a truck arrives in the wrong lane.
• Alice can generate reports from all tracked information within the platform.

When we talk about built in cameras video analytics or edge-based analytics, it means the camera is built with smart agents within, which makes processing and analysis of video and creates metadata.

This means that you can use a cheaper server because the processing is made by the camera. Also the video analytics capabilities depend on the camera.

Some cameras make perimetral analytics like intruder detection, face recognition, etc. and some others make traffic analytics like license plate recognition or intersection analysis.

A very special few cameras can make both, traffic analytics and perimetral.

Alice Guardian works on premise and cloud, this means:

You need a computer or a server to run Alice in the edge of your security system and Alice use the cloud to:

• Manage the whole events triggered and data.
• Register and save events data and metadata.
• Record video on demand.

The next image illustrates the hardware needed and its integrations in order to give life to Alice:

Now you are maybe asking yourself:

How do I decide what kind of infrastructure I need to improve my video surveillance and security systems?

Relax, that’s something we can help you with. It depends on your objectives and the amount of services you want to leverage in.

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