A Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform – Ocucon – was on show at the recent Retail Risk show in London. The firm is launching a video pixelation service. Developed with Google, Ocucon Pixelate harnesses artificial intelligence to deliver an intelligent video redaction tool for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.
Suitable the developers say for camera footage including body cameras, the web-based software enables users to select the faces they wish to pixelate. Ocucon says that video redaction software, that manually redacts images, can prove costly and time-consuming. Meanwhile newer automated, cloud-based technologies have been known to be unreliable, particularly on shaky body-cam footage and are unable to exclude faces, the firm adds.
With the introduction of GDPR this month, the need for video redaction CCTV users face new rules on how they process and store identifying personal data, including data within CCTV. As a result, the new Pixelate service is aimed at retailers, property management firms and corporations, airports and transport hubs, hospitals, universities, local authorities and police forces.
Ocucon Co-Founder, Gary Trotter, pictured, said: “With the introduction of GDPR, the penalties for organisations who reveal identifying data – whether intentionally or inadvertently – are set to increase significantly, with fines up to 20 million euros or 4 percent of annual global turnover (whichever is greatest). Images or clips of footage from CCTV footage can reveal large amounts of personal data, from credit card numbers to car number plates. Whereas existing redaction services can prove very costly or unreliable, Ocucon’s Pixelate product is the first of its kind – utilising artificial intelligence and genuine machine learning – to provide intelligent cost effective, cloud based video redaction that is capable of redacting other forms of data, not just faces.”
Users of Pixelate will be able to upload CCTV footage to Ocucon’s web-based portal and download redacted files within minutes, the firm says. Users already of Ocucon’s cloud-based storage and retrieval platform to store their CCTV will have full access to the pixelation tool and will able to select video clips to redact from the cloud.
Launched in October 2017, Ocucon delivers a cloud-based storage and retrieval, combining data analytics with the storing, analysis and retrieval of HD video footage from within the Ocucon portal. Visit https://ocucon.com/.
