The global video surveillance market, valued at $19.12 billion in 2018, is projected to reach more than $33 billion by 2026. This growth is partly driven by the integration of video analytics, which has become a crucial aspect of commercial property security.
The technology uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze video feeds and transform them into meaningful insights and actionable data. When combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), video analytics changes surveillance from a reactive system to a proactive, dynamic, and intelligent solution.
How Video Analytics Works
The process of video analytics begins with the capture of data by strategically placed surveillance cameras across the property. This captured video data is then analyzed by advanced algorithms that can discern a wide range of objects, behaviors, or events, including unauthorized entry, loitering, and specific individuals or vehicles.
The real magic happens when unusual activity or a pre-defined event is detected. The system can alert security personnel in real-time who can then step in and take action as necessary. This immediacy of the notifications is crucial to help deter potential threats and ensure the security of the premises.
The video data can be stored in an archival system for future reference. This digital storage helps enable seamless search and retrieval of specific footage based on a variety of parameters such as time, date, or type of event. The video review and analysis process also serves as a reliable source for incident investigations and compliance verification.
Key Benefits of Advanced Video Analytics
There are several key benefits of advanced video analytics these include:
- Intrusion detection
- Permitter protection
- License plate recognition
- Incident investigation
- Operational insights
- Real-time monitoring and alerts
- Compliance monitoring
Here’s a closer look at each of these benefits:
Intrusion Detection
Video analytics can enhance commercial property security by automating the surveillance process and facilitating early detection and identification of criminal events. With advanced computer vision techniques and algorithms, video analytics software can analyze video footage to help detect potential intrusions or security breaches in a monitored area. This technology-driven approach leverages AI and ML to automate the detection of objects, people, vehicles, and behavior patterns within the video frames that may indicate unauthorized access or suspicious activities.
Video analytics intrusion detection systems offer several benefits over traditional manual monitoring methods, including continuous operation, simultaneous analysis of multiple video streams, and the ability to handle large amounts of data. This helps security teams proactively detect threats and prevent unauthorized access.
Perimeter Protection
Perimeter protection for commercial properties can be enhanced by integrating advanced video analytics. This allows for the identification of specific behaviors, like trespassing, and can direct response measures including the activation of audio warnings to help deter potential intruders. These systems help reduce false alarms and the burden on security personnel, allowing them to focus on genuine threats and critical security events.
License Plate Recognition
Advanced video analytics have revolutionized perimeter security for commercial properties, particularly through the use of License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. LPR cameras are specialized surveillance systems designed to capture and log vehicle license plates, providing a high level of evidence for law enforcement. Unlike standard surveillance cameras, LPR units can deliver clear images of license plates from fast-moving vehicles and in any lighting or weather conditions.
These cameras can facilitate live video surveillance, with software that can convert license plate scans into a searchable text database. This allows for the creation of automatic alerts when vehicles of interest are detected. They are also designed for easy deployment, which can be rapidly adapted to new locations as surveillance needs emerge.
LPR cameras are particularly valuable when it comes to parking structures. They can capture license plates in poorly lit conditions, aiding law enforcement in prompt investigations. Additionally, they help in access control, allowing only authorized vehicles on-site, and tracking vehicles entering and exiting parking areas.
Incident Investigation
Post-incident, video analytics can significantly enhance investigations. Whether it’s identifying how illegal substances came onto a property or monitoring for suspicious individuals who may be carrying a weapon, video analytics can help streamline the process of retrieving and reviewing relevant footage.
Modern video analytics systems, backed by AI, can quickly comb through hours of video data to pinpoint exact moments of interest, identifying key images, behaviors, or anomalies that pertain to an incident. This capacity can not only accelerate the initial response to security breaches but also enhance the thoroughness of subsequent investigations.
Operational Insights
Video analytics extends far beyond traditional security applications, offering commercial property managers valuable operational insights. This technology serves as an additional layer to video surveillance, enabling businesses to make informed decisions by capturing, storing, and analyzing video data. It allows for the monitoring and reporting of daily operations. For example, video analytics can be used to help optimize store layouts, identify staffing inefficiencies, and provide data-driven insights.
Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts
Advanced video analytics can enhance the capabilities of real-time monitoring for commercial property security, providing an amped-up approach to surveillance. When modern cameras are integrated with artificial intelligence, these systems are designed to increase accuracy in threat identification.
These systems have evolved to replicate the vigilance of a security guard but without human inefficiencies. They employ algorithms to analyze video feeds in real-time and alert trained monitoring operators to specific activities of concern. This allows for central monitoring across multiple commercial sites, providing an enterprise-wide overview of video system statuses and maintenance issues from a single dashboard. Security operators are empowered to identify and respond to security, safety, and maintenance problems more efficiently and effectively.
The technology can be programmed to differentiate between innocuous movements and genuine security threats, such as distinguishing between a moving tree branch and an intruder. This helps minimize false alarms and focuses attention on real incidents.
Compliance Monitoring
Integrated video analytics go beyond crime prevention by helping to identify issues such as bottlenecks and unsafe workplace conduct. This can be crucial for maintaining operational compliance with health and safety regulations.
Analytics-driven video monitoring services are not only effective for real-time response but also for creating a comprehensive record of compliance adherence and incidents. This record-keeping is essential for demonstrating due diligence and for continuous improvement of compliance-related practices on commercial properties.
Enhancing Commercial Property Security with Advanced Video Analytics in Live Monitoring
Stealth’s live video monitoring, enhanced with advanced video analytics, is becoming an essential component in helping protect commercial properties from theft, vandalism, and other unauthorized activities.
Our trained monitoring operators use analytics-based security cameras that are strategically placed around a commercial property to watch for issues in real time. The analytics can alert our security professionals if something outside of pre-programmed parameters is detected. They can then assess the situation and determine the best steps to resolution. That could be activating an onsite speaker to warn intruders they are being watched and/or calling the police.
We also provide a video review and analysis service to study footage and data to help with insurance claims and investigations more effectively.
Our live video monitoring can help effectively deter and detect incidents, increase the efficiency of emergency response teams, decrease false alarms, and save on security expenses.
As commercial properties continue to expand, the need for advanced security solutions such as video analytics will only increase. By investing in cutting-edge video analytics, commercial properties can not only enhance their security measures, but can also move towards a future where security is intelligent, responsive, and highly robust.
To learn more about live video monitoring and all it can do for commercial properties, check out this free guide, Live Video Monitoring: More Than Just Catching Criminals or contact us.
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