VCA’s Bridge appliance, which adds video analytics to an IP video surveillance camera system, has been integrated with SureView’s security management platform.
Supporting multiple camera channels, Bridge is an analytics appliance which comes with back-office tools to set detection zones for people and vehicles. Using VCA’s video analytics engine, which has been deployed in over 350,000 video channels, Bridge is able to detect movement within small areas of a video image. As such, it can provide central station operators with an ‘exception’ reporting tool to help them identify suspicious activity and then if appropriate despatch security guards or report to the emergency services.
Bridge is designed to detect movement outdoors, the product developers add, as it will automatically adapt to varying light and can be tuned to minimise false alarms, due to, for example, rustling trees or wildlife, it is claimed. The product will even continue to deliver when cameras may be swaying due to wind according to the firm.
The integration means that operators using the Immix software can view live images of an incident and exercise control over PTZ cameras. Also the integration includes post-alarm video recording
Kevin Waterhouse, Executive Vice President, Global Sales for VCA, said: “We achieved integration between VCA’s analytics and the Immix platform some time ago and as a result there are many thousands of cameras worldwide that are already acting as highly effective detection devices. Bridge makes it even easier to introduce analytics into a security system and most importantly, gives installers and end-users the flexibility to use cameras that have already been installed, regardless of who the manufacturer is.”
For more on Sureview Immix, visit www.sureviewsystems.com.
About VCA
Developed in the UK by computer vision scientists, VCA’s video analytics engine can perform security and surveillance applications such as people counting, intrusion detection and vehicle monitoring, as well as tailgating and camera tamper detection. The analytics engine has been independently verified by the UK Home Office i-LIDS programme for use in sterile zone applications. VCA’s analytics also provides a method for capturing and providing metadata, which can be graphically displayed in customisable reports. The analytics has been incorporated into VCA’s own brand of internal and external IP network fixed, domes and 360-degree panoramic cameras. Visit www.vcatechnology.com.
