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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
Staying Focused
oWn the Horizon
hat a crazy ride we munications IP camera. Determined to all experienced in share his vision, Gren brought the first IP 2020, and it seems camera to life (and it still works, I believe), were on that same many others have followed suit.
roller coaster as we Now, we find the IP camera is more turn full force into 2021. With the publica- than capable of doing more than captur-
tion of the March issue, it stirs my mem- ory of the past 20-plus years of attending ISC West in Las Vegas.
One thing for certain, security never sleeps.
From memory lane, my first adven- ture at a tradeshow, I walked the floor somewhat crossed eyed and amazed. One experience that I’ll never forget is happen- ing upon a very small both where Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications was hawking some new kind of camera. My lack of vision, I walked away from that conversation, thinking to myself, “that will never work.”
Wrong. I can’t even begin to explain how off base I was on this one.
Leap forward more than two decades, and our lead story in this issue, from Ray Cooke at Hanwha, details how Artificial Intelligence, “continues to gain momen- tum every day.” This will, according to Cooke, “make a substantial impact.”
I’m fully aware that if the mind can conceive a solution, it can also create a path to bring it to market.
Martin Gren. This Swedish innovator is the driving force behind the Axis Com-
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ing video. AI has become a companion of the IP camera, the solution being stored on the edge of the camera and being used to monitor and manually search through vast amounts of video.
Once again, from Cooke’s cover story, “AI can help us not only watch continuous- ly, but also feed systems that are able to sort, organize and categorize massive amounts of data in a way that human operators can- not. And, it can do so far more reliably than traditional video analytics ever did.”
One of many reasons AI works so well, defining characteristics of a detected ob- ject are captured in the image. Examples are the color of a shirt or trousers; wheth- er or not a person is wearing a hat, glasses or carrying a handbag. AI takes hours off a manual video search of finding that man wearing a blue shirt and shorts.
What Gren and other started more than two decades ago has flourished. This proved to be a seminal moment in video surveillance and the security industry at large. Keep your eyes on the horizon.
accuracy, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results may be achieved in all environments. Technical inaccuracies may result from print- ing errors and/or new developments in the industry.
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