Thursday 11 April 2013

Its no longer Observation....its Observision!

What do you mean?

Have you ever had the opportunity to observe what a Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) monitoring station looks like? Take it from us, its glum. Imagine being in a dark room with up to 50 screens and you have to monitor all of them. That sounds bad? Well, it gets worse. Remember, that in most of the 50 screens for most of the time....nothing ever happens. And also, you have no clue what you are looking for and what is about to happen. No wonder no child has ever said that he wanted to grow up and be a CCTV monitoring man....

Take a look at the below images to get an idea what life is like in a CCTV monitoring room.


But, that's all about to change though....

Let me guess.....Video Analytics again?

You guessed right! Yes, it is indeed Video Analytics. Using a network of cameras, we can monitor all that's going on. If something fishy is happening, the computers can even zoom in and take a good look and keep the video for later recovery. And in case something really really fishy is going on, it can even send you a message telling you about it so that you can come in and personally intervene.
And the best thing about it all? No human being needs to be sat anywhere looking at 50 screens waiting for something to happen when he could be spending time with his family, watching his local football team, or enjoying a quiet pint at his neighbourhood pub.

No way! What about security? Can you trust a machine?

The question is, can you trust a human? Human capital is limited. Human potential is also limited. Think about it, has CCTV monitoring by humans ever prevented a serious crime? It may have helped in later investigations, but it has never helped prevent one as far as we know. For example, of the 100 people entering the London metro every minute, its impossible for one (or even five) people to continually scan them for any dangerous faces, etc. But using Video Analytics, we can train computers to do the job for us, and they can do it a lot better than we can.

OK, I get it. So how does it all work?

To avoid boring you, this time we have a video form a company called Observision to do the talking and explaining for us. Observision is a Malaysian ICT solutions company, and are one of the pioneers of the application of Video Analytics to the security industry. Watch this and you'll be totally convinced by the awesome potential. I'm sure a lot of CCTV monitoring people will be very excited too when they get their hands on this technology...


We  hope you enjoyed the video and enjoyed learning more about Video Analytics. We'll be back with more fun and innovative stuff for you to enjoy next week!


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