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October 25, 2006

Smart Cameras for Industrial Security

From SecurityWatchInfo:
An article on how smart cameras can be used for industrial security, such as scrap metal theft, industrial-plant theft, frivolous injury claims, and the theft of of toxic chemicals, biomedical waste, and flammable materials. Its a good article on the added value of smart cameras. Here is one snippet:

Consider some common analytics that can be applied to an industrial security setting: Intelligent video detection can distinguish between vehicles and people and even limit detection to a specific direction, so when a scrap-metal thief climbs over a fence it will be detected, but an employee car leaving the facility would be ignored. Automatic detection of object removal can be used to limit detection to items that are of interest, whether it is the taking of a warehouse computer or a pallet of copper piping from a storage yard. Automatic detection of unattended objects can reveal when a box of product is tossed over the fence by an employee for post-work retrieval or alarm when a suspicious package is placed next to liquid propane tanks. Automatic detection of stopped cars can notify security when a vehicle stops for too long of a period in a prohibited area. Autonomous pan-tilt-zoom tracking, unlike stationary cameras, can provide automatic close-ups of a moving target for better recognition or real-time tracking of a camouflaged intruder's whereabouts.

Posted by rshah at October 25, 2006 07:24 AM

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