Integrated Systems

Perimeter monitoring from camera

by Mark Rowe

Digital Barriers will launch SafeZone-edge, its automated intrusion detection system, at Counter Terror Expo 2014.

The UK company says that its product avoids the cost and complexity of server-based video analytics by doing the video processing on the camera. The makers add that it’s one of the few edge-based systems to make the UK benchmark under the Home Office i-LIDS scheme. In February, SafeZone-edge was certified as an i-LIDS approved primary detection system for operational alert use in sterile zone monitoring applications.

The firm says it’s suitable for perimeters and monitoring sterile zones across critical infrastructure locations, oil and gas facilities, industrial complexes, transit locations and other sensitive sites.

Dave Oliver, pictured, Director UK Enterprise Account Sales at Digital Barriers, said: “In contrast to other video analytics packages, SafeZone-edge has been designed around the installer and operator. This has resulted in an intuitive and simple setup procedure with a unique function to both automatically calibrate the system and define a default intrusion scenario in one step. User-defined operating modes support additional perimeter security and sterile zone monitoring scenarios.”

With its analytical engine, the makers claim that SafeZone-edge is able to detect reliably and with low nuisance alarm rates in even the most difficult conditions – including adverse weather and variable illumination – and is able to adapt automatically to seasonal changes. Designed for use on IP video devices, SafeZone-edge is launching on the Axis platform. At Counter Terror Expo, Digital Barriers will be exhibiting with Axis Communications on stand E45.

Daren Lang, Manager – Business Development, Northern Europe from Axis said: “SafeZone-edge is a very exciting solution and a class-leading intrusion detection package that provides Axis camera users with a compelling argument for embedding video analytics at the edge of the network. This is a great working example of how the Axis Camera Application Platform is evolving. In this case Digital Barriers are using Axis cameras as the platform to deliver a solution that is not only very cost effective but also provides levels of accuracy and robustness that are usually only associated with server-based applications.”

Dave Oliver added: “The SafeZone analytical engine derives from a sophisticated server-based analytics technology. Yet when setting out to create the edge-based application, we focused down on features that users will actually use, day-to-day, in real-life applications. The result is a simple yet powerful intrusion detection system that benefits end users and installers.”

Digital Barriers adds that it continues to develop SafeZone-edge. For more on SafeZone-edge, visit www.digitalbarriers.com/safezone.

Counter Terror Expo 2014 runs at Olympia, west London, on April 29 and 30. Visit: http://www.counterterrorexpo.com/.

About Digital Barriers

Digital Barriers is based in the UK and sells into more than forty countries through regional offices in North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Visit www.digitalbarriers.com

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