Securing Critical Infrastructure with Intelligent Video
Challenges to Seuring Critical Infrastructure
Safeguarding a nation's power plants, water supply, petrochemical facilities, bridges, dams and other critical infrastructure against terrorist or criminal activities is a vital yet extremely difficult endeavor. These high-risk structures pose serious challenges to security due to sprawling facilities, large perimeters, water borders and other unique features.
When it comes to protecting a nation's citizens and economy, there is no room for error. Yet, CCTV, access control and motion detection systems alone provide an incomplete picture that can lead to security breaches, false alarms, tactical errors and misused resources.
Expansive sites and lights-out facilities make human monitoring of CCTV systems impractical, which means their passive recording capabilities are used for forensics, not prevention. Similarly, access control systems can only indicate when a door has been opened with an access card, which leaves secure areas vulnerable to tailgating violations.
Motion detection systems provide even less protection, as they simply detect motion without distinguishing true threats from insignificant motion such as trees being blown by the wind. These systems often generate false alarms, keeping security personnel from addressing real threats. And, in a world of heightened security, false alarms are worse than no alarms because they train security personnel to ignore all potential threats.
Improve Security by Integrating Existing Systems with Intelligent Video
By integrating with existing security systems, intelligent video offers the situational awareness necessary to protect critical infrastructure in the most comprehensive, yet cost-effective manner possible. Easy integration with CCTV, access control, radar, sonar, GIS and other systems provides security personnel with a centralized solution for managing long- and short-range surveillance and incident response.
Intelligent video software can automatically alert security personnel to perimeter intrusions, access violations or suspicious behavior, which can then be evaluated based on data from various integrated systems. Alerts can also be sent wirelessly to roaming patrols for an immediate response.
Higher accuracy of threat detection enables security staff to respond to real threats more effectively, avoiding false alarms and wasted resources. The end result is an integrated, cost-effective solution that offers actionable 24/7 surveillance without requiring wholesale changes to existing infrastructure.
The Case for the SmartCatch Integrated Intelligent Video System
Vidient SmartCatch provides the most comprehensive, accurate and advanced site-wide intelligent video surveillance solution available. With true behavior recognition capabilities, SmartCatch can detect suspicious behaviors that threaten safety and security in real time, alerting the appropriate security staff for an effective and efficient response.
Unlike other intelligent video solutions that merely integrate with existing CCTV cameras, SmartCatch maximizes investment in other security systems, including access control, RFID and biometrics. By integrating video behavior analysis with authentication devices, situational awareness is heightened dramatically. Moreover, SmartCatch's various behavior modules can be used in any indoor or outdoor setting, regardless of weather conditions or water borders.
Finally, SmartCatch uses state-of-the-art machine learning, multiple object trajectory tracking and human reasoning technology, which consistently achieves the industry's highest accuracy in detecting violations and eliminating the false alarms caused by motion detection systems or simple object tracking solutions.
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Benefits of Intelligent Video
- Protect High-value Assets and Hazardous Materials
- Improve Perimeter Security
- Actively Monitor Restricted Areas and Water Borders in Any Weather
- Receive Real-time Intrusion Alerts
- Eliminate Unauthorized Access
- Reduce False Alarms
- Integrate with CCTV, Access Control, RFID, Radar, Sonar and Other Systems
Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Human/Vehicle Tailgating - detects multiple people / vehicles entering through an access control point on a single card
- Removed Objects - detects the removal of equipment or other stationary objects
- Unattended Objects - detects luggage, packages and other objects that are left unattended for a specified period of time
- Loitering - detects people or vehicles loitering near secure or high-value areas
- Crowd Detection - detects growing crowd sizes to prevent overcrowding
- Turnstile Violation - detects people hopping over or crawling under an access gate
- Stopped Vehicle - detects vehicles stopped near sensitive areas for a prolonged period
- Exit Lane - detects people going the wrong way in an exit lane
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