Video Surveillance
The most rapidly growing sector of the security industry is undoubtedly video surveillance, which has seen fast adoption with a boost in video quality and a drop in system prices. Video surveillance systems empower security personnel to see across vast enterprises, but they also provide other benefits such as demonstrating patterns in customer behavior.
Advancing Beyond Video Surveillance
Proactive visual security is transforming monitoring centers For decades, video surveillance has been one of the cornerstones of electronic security. Yet, despite advances in camera technology, many systems continue to operate in much the same way they did years ago: recording events for later review rather than helping prevent incidents in real time. Today, that…
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Security Industry Association Calls for the Responsible and Effective Use of Automated License Plate Reader Technology
SIA has issued policy principles and guidance designed to guard against misuse of ALPR while preserving public safety benefits. SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has issued a call for the responsible and effective use of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology and released policy principles designed to guide the development of administrative and legislative actions…
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Thermal Imaging: Protecting Utility Assets Before Problems Escalate
Thermal imaging is becoming an essential tool for electric utilities because it supports physical security, asset protection and early detection. From a security perspective, thermal cameras can detect people and vehicles in darkness, fog, smoke and other challenging conditions where conventional cameras may struggle. This allows security teams to identify perimeter intrusions and suspicious activity at substations, generation facilities and remote infrastructure. The…
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The Video Architecture of the Future
Edge-to-cloud systems leverage the strengths of both components For decades, video surveillance followed a familiar blueprint: cameras at the edge, recorders tucked into network closets and servers humming away in back rooms. It worked well for a time, but it was built for an era when cameras were passive sensors and infrastructure evolved slowly. That…
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Ensuring That Seeing Is Believing
Built-in authentication is needed to differentiate real video from AI A video goes viral. A screenshot sparks conversation. An audio file causes rumors to spread. A single frame steers everything from a boardroom decision to a jury’s vote. The world now runs on digital media, but there’s a risk—the internet now manufactures “proof” on demand.…
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The Risk of AI Shadow Data
Storing video data used to simply involve storing the video from the camera and another basic event database of motion events or other basic yes/no triggers. With all of the metadata created by some cameras now, however, it is also necessary to store this additional data somewhere. System designers need to take this data into…
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Improving Visibility While Preserving Video Integrity
CNN-based low-light enhancement avoids the pitfalls of generative artificial intelligence In the rapidly evolving world of AI-powered imaging, it is easy to conflate all “AI enhancement” with generative methods. But when it comes to critical applications like surveillance, the distinction between generative and nongenerative artificial intelligence, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based enhancement is not just technical,…
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The Rise of Vision-Enabled Operations
Video Data Is No Longer Just About Security For decades, physical security has meant alarms, guards and maybe a wall of CCTV monitors. Cameras recorded a ton of video, but it was only ever reviewed after an incident, if at all. All those hours of footage were essentially left to waste, regardless of the secrets…
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Data Privacy Code of Practice – Video Surveillance
The Security Industry Association (SIA) Data Privacy Advisory Board has produced this Code of Practice for Video Surveillance based on common privacy and security principles to provide manufacturers, integrators and end users with guidance that can be used to inform their development of sound policies and best practices that mitigate privacy risks while leveraging the power of video technology.
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AI Is the Latest Step in Video Analytics
Surveillance video implements many cool technologies to enable us to prevent or solve crimes. If you think about the whole system end to end, we have cameras that take in photons, turn them into electrons, which are carried across a variety of networks and come out the other end as photons from a monitor. Along…
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