Understanding Video Analytics

[nerdyrob]

Long time watcher first time poster. 

I'm a former sys admin that has moved over the dark side (sales) as a Solution Engineer for a software company 2 years ago. I work for a very large company that creates a Video Management System (VMS). Most people have no idea what that is, however, you may know it by a different name. CCTV. And I'm not talking your consumer/pro-sumer setups like, Ring, Nest, Ubuiquti. I'm talking setups for things like large Shopping Centres, Schools, Hosptials, Manufactuering, Crit Infrastrucytre and Airports.

The reason I bring all of that up is that there have been several topics over the last couples of months on the WAN Show where there have been some bad takes by the boys in regards to what cameras can do. The July 5th one was a pretty big example where they discussed clubs putting up camera for people counting and displaying that externally.

My takes:

Why use cameras? Accuracy. People counting from a camera can be collated to show multiple entries and exits. This can also be leveraged as valuable marketing data in both a heat mapping or pathing analytics. While detecting the amount of phones/devices can be done, it is in no way as accurate

Displaying data externally does NOT have to be via a video stream. Luke should know how bandwidth heavy that would be. Most solutions that would do that have a dashboard ability or event streamable metadata to have it show in PowerBI or Graphana. Instanly elimates ALL privacy concerns and cuts down on the bandwidth significantly.

I really encourage the team to look into VMS platforms and camera analytics from the likes of Axis, IPRO and Hanwha (all of which are owned by Canon, Panasonic and Samsung respectively). 

And no, I'm not saying where I'm from because I'm not trying to drum up business, but I'm happy to validate my identity if need be. 

Much love from Australia - I can't wait until the next batch of free shipping  

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1 hour ago, nerdyrob said:

Axis, IPRO and Hanwha (all of which are owned by Canon, Panasonic and Samsung respectively). 

Hello friendly CCTV specialist rare to see someone else from this field in the wild

 

Just a side-note - Hanwha Vision is not owned by Samsung. It is however Samsung CCTV division "Samsung Techwin", which was sold to Hanwha corporation, they kept it under Hanwha Techwin and few years back switched name to Hanwha Vision. This is standalone division inside Hanwha, but i have heard rumors that they might merge it with Hanwha Defense in the future, but will still keep current name.