Today’s commercial environments demand surveillance technology that does more than capture evidence or requires security professionals to watch a live video feed.
With intelligent video analytics, businesses can leverage data the software automatically collects to gain situational awareness and better insight into their daily operations. Surveillance camera analytics make it possible for you to customize real-time alerts based on complex tracking algorithms to deliver crucial insight into on-site activity and potential threats.
Surveillance camera analytics support businesses in better understanding their security efforts and operational efficiency to improve their processes. Here’s how.
Identify Proximity Compliance and Protect Visitors
Video analytics give businesses the opportunity to analyze how people on the premises behave over time in regard to social distancing.
Based on specific rules that you create, the system can automatically identify when people have been too close to each other for too long, alerting your security team or even playing pre-recorded messages to people when this occurs according to system settings [1].
Companies in all industries can better protect their visitors, employees, residents, and students from threats and stay in compliance with public health regulations with real-time reactions.
Analytics can also identify opportunities for improvement with customer and employee engagement based on trends of how people move throughout a location.
Improve Response Time to Alarms and Threats
With real-time notifications of potential threats, businesses can accelerate their response time to make pivotal decisions about situations and mitigate risk.
Having a better response time isn’t just essential for service providers such as first responders, but for any business that wants to better improve its security instead of merely having evidence after the fact [2]. Analytics such as facial and license plate recognition can immediately alert your team if a flagged individual or vehicle approaches the premises.
Conventional surveillance cameras simply don’t provide this type of situational awareness in real-time, which means businesses can lack critical insight into events as they are happening.
Manage Occupancy and Sanitation Efforts
Having situational awareness is a must for businesses that strive to provide a safe experience for customers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Video analytics that actively analyze video in real-time can count people entering the facility, helping businesses better gauge when they are at full capacity to manage visitors.
Analytics can also help companies better understand when and how often certain areas, such as restrooms or kitchens, are used to improve their sanitation efforts [3]. The system can automatically alert your team when it’s time for cleaning, helping you conserve your team’s efforts for when they matter most.
Many businesses depend on video analytics to support their situational awareness safety requirements both in regards to pandemic safety and everyday safety in their operations.
How Can Surveillance Camera Analytics Support Your Objectives?
If your surveillance cameras exist solely to capture evidence, it’s time to consider what video analytics can do for your business. Have more insight into your operations by attaining situational awareness and invaluable data with intelligent video analytics. Find out more by contacting the commercial security professionals at Surveillance Secure at (877) 388-1248.
Sources:
- https://www.briefcam.com/solutions/real-time-response/
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4337896_Situational_Awareness_and_Visual_Analytics_for_Emergency_Response_and_Training
- https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/93646-improving-situational-awareness-via-video-content-analytics-is-the-key-to-business-safety-and-compliance-for-covid-19
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