AI Situational Awareness Video Monitoring Software A Ubiquitous Security and Surveillance Solution to an Ever-Present Threat
The modern civil and homeland security practitioner faces a known challenge. General Rupert Smith described it in his book “The Utility of Force” – citing a “war among the people” . That idea is now the norm in modern military operations. Today’s “security war among the people” takes place in a complex environment. This includes busy towns and cities, transport hubs, ports and national borders. Most law-abiding citizens there wish and expect to go about their work and recreation in peace and security.
Some people seek to disrupt peace and security. Their reasons may be criminal, ideological or personal. They rarely announce their intentions in advance. Security practitioners must spot known criminals as they arrive. This applies at national borders and in busy business centres. They must identify suspicious action among many innocent passers-by. A hellish dull but essential job. Once a security event begins, situational awareness becomes critical. Practitioners need to know what is happening and who is involved. The event may be a bag snatch, an assault or a Navy Yard or Westgate shooting. In a busy built-up area this is very hard to achieve. Video surveillance was once seen as the answer to every security problem. In these scenarios it has proved inadequate.
In practice, several things go wrong. Your surveillance coverage has gaps. Your operator does not recognise a suspect. The operator is distracted on the phone, scanning elsewhere, or blinking. Any of these can happen at the moment a crucial event occurs. One low-level event that is not resolved correctly can carry strategic impact. It affects public confidence and organisational reputation.
Viseum security and surveillance solutions are built for full situational awareness. They suit the demanding environment of busy towns, cities and transport hubs. No other product package comes close to generating our ubiquitous intelligent security presence.
Viseum’s aim is to prime and enhance the human response to security incidents. Our technology acts as a force multiplier and is proven worldwide. It gives security practitioners continuous 360-degree coverage of any area of responsibility. It does this without hundreds of AI surveillance cameras or large monitoring teams. Our analytics software creates a virtual security operator. That operator is never distracted, never tired and never looks away.
The virtual operator runs the pan, tilt and zoom camera automatically. At the same time it performs facial recognition and tags and tracks pedestrians and vehicles. It generates suspicious activity alerts for control room staff. It keeps watch over known areas of interest. It also provides immediate forensic analysis of an unknown perpetrator’s movements before and after an event. We give incident commanders and the courts an unbroken record of video evidence. It shows what happened and who was involved. Many have attempted to generate this intelligent analytics package, but only Viseum has succeeded. Hooligans, criminals, rogue employees and terrorists be warned.
Viseum’s world-class pedigree is well known to UK and international law-enforcement agencies and some strategic security specialists. However, so far we have limited our sphere of operations to a niche market. Our security services now discuss crime and terror threats openly. In response we intend to move into the homeland security sector. We will also move into international defence and security. I am confident that our product and agile R&D capability will change border and public security. It will also reduce the on-base risk to our deployed military.
Viseum solutions are at least 6 times more effective than its nearest competitor. I encourage you to take a look and request more details from me and my staff at www.viseum.co.uk
