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What are Video Analytics?


Video analytics are a rapidly developing segment of the video surveillance/security market. They are a powerful tool that can greatly increase the effectiveness of a video surveillance system through the use of automatic monitoring and detection. They are becoming increasingly popular with businesses and home owners for security use, as well as for other applications.

Using sophisticated algorithms, video analytics can perform a number of different tasks by monitoring a digitized security video feed. They examine the image presented by the video feed, down to the littlest pixel. They can then detect even minor changes in the image. This has a surprising number of uses; below we will give a few.

Video Analytics Applications

Object Recognition

You can program the recording software to distinguish certain objects within the video feed. Should this object change, be moved or removed, the software will immediately pick up this change.

Advanced Motion Detection/Tracking

Pick up even the slightest movement within the monitored area from any angle, and program the camera to follow these movements. The software can even be used to track speed, direction of travel and more.

License Plate Recognition

Video analytics software can even be programmed to detect license plates and take special images of these plates for retrieval. This sort of software is commonly used in places such as gas stations and toll booths to keep a track of traffic passing through.

Centralized Video Analytics Control

Another important element of video analytics is that all of these uses can be controlled from a central point. Video analytics software is connected to the each individual camera through a network, allowing control over any number of different feeds and cameras from a single point. It can also be used to send alerts, notices, etc. in cases of emergency.

Video analytics can be used with either digital network cameras or analog CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) cameras. However, the software requires a digital image to work with. In order to incorporate video analytics into an analog system you must first be able to convert the video feeds into a digital format. This is required in order for the software to analyze the video in such a precise way.

Conclusion

In conclusion, video analytics are a powerful new tool for the use in security and video surveillance. With the latest in technology advances any video network can come under automatic control using video analytics.

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