I just read a popular article on where to deploy video analytics at Security Info Watch, Axis: Video Analytics at the Edge. The article written by Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications does a great job of describing different deployment options for deploying video analytics. While I agree with the bandwidth advantages and improved analytic performance [...]
Be it video analytics, data analytics, intelligence based on the available data is paramount to making productive use of video. The most effective Managed Video service will “hook into” best of breed intelligence services. Managed Video Systems should strive to be great at managing video and making it easy to link that video with data. [...]
It’s about time! John Honovich has produced a book on video surveillance. From my scan so far, this appears to be some of the first material I have ever seen which actually is vendor neutral and not slanted towards a love of some particular technology. You don’t have to be an engineer to read it [...]
In an every more connected world security threats seem to be continuously multiplying. Every day there are reports of significant fraud and security breaches perpetrated. These are not even all over the Internet. If you ever paid for parking at Denver International Airport by credit card between about 2000 and 2006 your cardholder information could [...]
I’m not an expert in law enforcement or military intelligence, but I have heard that the biggest issues making it difficult to share information are both cultural and organizational. Many of those organizations are designed not to share information. Protecting information, especially in those environments is often part of what makes the information valuable. However, [...]
That’s what Detektor – SecurityWorldHotel.com called the Martin Gren, one of the co-founders of Axis communications in their recent interview. Mr. Gren does sound like a man who has strong priorities around family, but also technology and business and is really not so concerned about just making lots of money. He has grown to be [...]
Sony, Bosch and Axis have recently agreed to cooperate in forming a new, open forum aimed at developing standards for networked video. Here’s a quote: The main goal of this new standard is to facilitate the integration of various brands of network video equipment and to help manufacturers, software developers and independent software vendors ensure [...]
MySpace’s “Data Availability” Project might make for an interesting model to approach processing data captured from today’s business systems. Granted, social apps are ALL about sharing with only minimal consideration for control and privacy of data. However, imagine if there were de-facto standard ways of handling managed video. Software providers, service providers and manufacturers could [...]
Given enough time a particular camera, location, recorder or other piece of equipment WILL fail and your system won’t be capturing the information you bought it for. If you don’t have a management system monitoring your video systems, Erwin Schrödinger might say it is both working and broken at the same time. You won’t know [...]
It is interesting to see how we culturally and socially react and adapt to technological changes, especially those that affect our everyday lives, even if in indirect ways. Here’s an interesting use of video surveillance… I found this interesting tidbit on slashdot about an unusual method a band used to make a music video.