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Acknowledge that advances in AI will continue to eliminate the need for human perception.
Video Analytics
All your video belongs to the AI. Based on decades of investment and research, AI based, machine learning video analytic engines are evolving into fully deployable products, with user-friendly interfaces and scenario-focused solutions.
According to artificial intelligence pioneer Ray Kurzweil, “All learning results from massive, hierarchical and recursive processes taking place in the brain.” AI and video analytics will continue to bring substantial benefits to video surveillance.
“A lot of R&D now goes into making features in the VMS to help human operators understand what is happening and what has already happened,” said Tim Palmquist, vice president American, Milestone Systems. “AI will likely be the ultimate delivery on the traditional video analytics promise. The innovations underway in this area are very significant and ultimately game changing. Smarter software will ultimately render a lot of present-day actions obsolete.”
Artificial intelligence-based video analytics is poised to drive en- tirely new security and surveillance solutions that deliver impressive results at lower costs.
Challenges. The challenges of AI and machine learning are lead- ing edge technologies that require deep understanding and skill to implement successfully. To truly leverage the power of AI, video sur- veillance systems must have the higher FPS and HD resolutions that also make them human readable.
Opportunities. While AI and video analytics are remarkably good at recognizing objects, events and patterns in video they require skilled analysts and investigators to interpret those results. Build your security and surveillance systems with both long term storage and long term analytics in mind. Design for the future.
Accept that new capture points like drones, robots, body cams and other systems will add complexity.
IoT Devices
The proliferation of edge capture devices is expanding at breakneck speed. Ground-based drones, flying drones, body cams and in-car cameras for prisoner transport are driving new security processes and adding complexity. Without a proactive plan, these new devices can overwhelm a video surveillance system. Add in the explosion of personal smart phones and myriad Internet of Things (IoT) devices and a 500-camera system can easily grow by hundreds of inputs. Be aware of both the physical security and cyber security implications of these new devices.
“The issue of cybersecurity and protecting network surveillance systems will be at the center of every discussion with vendors and existing and new end-user customers to assess and combat the vul- nerabilities of IoT devices,” said Jennifer Hackenburg, senior product marketing manager at Dahua Technology USA.
Challenges. As if managing video from hundreds of fixed IP cameras wasn’t hard enough, now the cameras fly, walk, drive and run around. All IP connected devices present inherent security risks, newer IoT drives even more so, cybersecurity risks are exploding.
Opportunities. IoT does present some opportunities such as em- powering the staff to develop new skills utilizing these new mobile and smart security devices while also improving officer and inmate safety and security. Work with IT to implement facility wide BYOB and IoT cybersecurity polices that serve and protect in balance.
Assert your plan for continuous growth in storage and analytics requirements.
Video Surveillance
By 2020, video surveillance is expected to generate more than 859
Petabytes of new video every day. A 1080P HD resolution camera in a typical corrections setting generates up to 10 GB of video every day. With the number of cameras increasing rapidly and mandated retention times stretching into years, these baseline requirements can quickly consume Petabytes of storage. It’s not a question of whether your storage and data protection needs will increase, it is only a mat- ter of how much will they grow: 2x, 4x or 10x over the next two to five years?
To successfully solve these challenges and take advantage of the opportunities, an intelligent storage system is essential. Modern vid- eo surveillance has insatiable read/write performance demands and long-term retention and analysis requirements. Desktop level solu- tions are no longer good enough.
To meet these requirements, ensure your storage server vendor is using Enterprise class SAS drives with MTBF’s of no less than 2M hours and optimized for 4k block sizes. To accommodate the higher camera counts and resolutions, a solution that decouples the video storage and protection from the video management is crucial to enable ‘pay as you grow’ scalability and open standards, COTS (Common off the Shelf) flexibility. Stick with a system that delivers double drive failure protection and if needed on and off-site data protection to ensure archived video is available to meet investiga- tions and regulations requirements.
Be proactive with your security and surveillance system. Actively plan with the certainty that legally mandated retention times will in- crease, resolutions and frame rates will continue to go up and that video analytics and other AI functions will deliver even more value from your video surveillance data.
Challenges. Increasing analytics requirements are driving expo- nential growth in storage and intelligent systems. The algebra of in- creasing FPS by resolution and cameras equals exponential storage growth. Scalability is crucial, but budget constraints demand pay as you scale approaches.
Opportunities. Assume requirements will increase dramatically and build in scalability and open standards flexibility. Leverage newer technologies such as Software Defined Storage and intelligent appli- ances to provide storage over iSCSI/Ethernet and file-sharing NAS. Use technology advances to bring new opportunities to staff for ad- vanced learning and skills development.
Intelligence + Technology + Skilled Staff = New Security Reality
The future of video surveillance in corrections is thousands of camer- as running at megapixel resolutions and 20 fps and higher. Increased human and machine intelligence and analytics both at the edge and in the core will drive new, exciting opportunities and solutions. Con- ventional IT-centric problems such as disaster recovery, backup, cy- bersecurity, and on and offsite data protection are moving into video surveillance systems in corrections and beyond.
The two most critical pieces of any video surveillance system are the video management system and the data storage platform.
Smart organizations are building in intelligence and scalability into both of these crucial systems. Storage and processing demands will continue exponential growth. Instead of trying to bet against the tsunami of technological advances, pro-actively leverage these ad- vances to deliver new capabilities, improved safety and security and lower operational costs. Take a layered approach
when optimizing your security and surveillance
system by leveraging both human and video ana-
lytics. That is a truly intelligent surveillance sys-
tem backed by intelligent people.
Andy Newbom is the vice president of marketing at Arxys.
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