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June 29, 2007
What are Smart Cameras?
From Tech-Faq.com:
They have a definition for smart cameras, which is a starting point.
Smart cameras refer to the new-generation surveillance cameras with behavior-filtering capabilities; they are linked to software that can help the camera identify suspicious behavior. Thus, the person in charge of security need only look at videos when smart cameras send him an alert. This minimizes lost man-hours on monitoring perfectly normal activities and facilitates timely emergency responses.
Here are my quick problems with the definition. First, it focuses too much on behavior analysis rather than all the possibilities with video analytics. Second, it neglects other types of sensors that may provide useful information. But it is way better than the wikipedia, which only notes smart camera and nothing about smart cameras and a vague definition of video analytics.
Posted by rshah at June 29, 2007 08:25 PM
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