Security leaders hold summit on surveillance, security

Mar 20, 2006 3:31 PM

           

Fortune 100 security and IT leaders gathered at the Video, Security and Integration Summit 2006 to review the state of the art in the video surveillance and security industries. The VSI Summit was held over two days in separate sessions in Dallas and Houston.
Highly publicized incidents in recent years have put the spotlight on public safety, employee safety and security in the workplace and public venues. During the VSI Summit, industry leaders demonstrated standards-based, interoperable, open-architecture, IP video systems integrated together to fulfill the needs of enterprise and public sector security and surveillance applications.
"Our industry has changed dramatically due to the migration from analog to digital video, enabling images to be managed, analyzed and distributed over the IT infrastructure in important new ways. The pace of this change has accelerated and will continue to do so over the next few years," BroadWare vice president of marketing, Dennis Charlebois, told the summit. "Video security and IT are converging rapidly and this is creating pressure to move towards more open technologies and more open standards that support interoperable connectivity and increased bandwidth. Organizations are being driven to do more with less, thus requiring greater ROI and improved productivity."
Presenters discussed how standards from the IT world are now being required in physical plants and building security systems. They also noted that digital video systems have become more affordable, making it possible to provide better enterprise and public sector security with smaller budgets and a higher ROI.
"Technology now makes it possible for very high quality images to be captured in any environment, anywhere in the world and shared over IP networks," explained Brian Montgomery, an executive with Extreme CCTV. "Some newer technologies can even capture images such as license plates that are normally not seen by standard cameras. Accurate facial images can now be captured from anywhere between ten miles and three feet."
Several speakers described how integrated video analytics systems can be used to assist security personnel in working more efficiently and more accurately. They described how images can be captured with high quality cameras, encoded on servers and transmitted via wireless and other IP-based networks.
Phil Robertson, vice president of corporate development for Cernium, pointed out that some corporate security executives believe incorrectly that if they keep adding cameras to their surveillance systems, this will increase security, but this premise fails to consider human performance issues.
"Adding more cameras alone does not increase security," Robertson emphasized. "Industry studies show that a security person can effectively watch between 9-12 cameras for only 15 minutes, and it is possible that the average human's observation capabilities are even shorter than that. It's imperative to leverage tools like video analytics to help security personnel to be more effective by focusing their attention to the right video information at the right time by presenting only that data that is relevant to the situation at hand."
The summit also discussed how complementary technology developers, complementary service providers and expert consultants are coming together to deliver video systems that provide fully integrated solutions to enterprise customers.
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