With technology advancing at a rapid space, it is inevitable that there will be a continual stream of new products and solutions in the evolving security industry. Video analytics is the latest solution to generate immense interest within the industry. Analysts like IMS predict that the market for analytics software alone will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars within the next two to three years. The rationale behind the strong acceptance of this solution is its capability to reduce human interventions to a great extent.
Video analytics or intelligent video surveillance (IVS) is a technology that uses software to automatically identify specific objects, behaviour or attitudes in video footage. It is basically used for intrusion detection. It transfers to the software the human interventions normally required to detect intrusions. It has the capability to analyse a video frame or a group of video frames to detect, classify, recognise or identify a predetermined event that has been programmed through the IVS software. It uses mathematical algorithms to detect moving objects in an image and filter non-relevant movements. It then creates a database that records the attributes of all the objects detected and their movement.
