ProSecurityZone.com
Making Intelligent Choices When Considering Video Analytics
Editors Blog: With customers seeking added value from increasingly function rich and expensive camera systems,video infrastructure vendors are offering intelligence but do they pass the analytics IQ test to justify being called intelligent?

Security Products
Government finds a better way to protect residents of the public housing system.
Building automation has revitalized public safety in Puerto Rico by employing a video surveillance system that improves communication throughout the police force and centralizes public housing issues.




SecurityInfoWatch.com
Securing the port and city of Richmond, Calif.
The server-based perimeter detection system at the port includes strategically placed and configured trip wires and establishes and allows the user to set up custom rules and exceptions for intrusion within the 15-mile perimeter, including across adjacent waterways.

SDM / Editorial Blog
ADT Hosts Media on Tour of Surveillance Systems
Editors and reporters clambered up four flights of stairs to a former control room at the port, where the capabilities of the new video surveillance system were demonstrated. Cameras from Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., are linked by a mesh network from BelAir Networks, Kanata, Ontario, Canada, with analytics by ObjectVideo.

C/NET News.com
Video: Wireless mesh security setup to watch shipping area
Eighty-two surveillance cameras will be watching the perimeter of one of the busiest shipping ports in Northern California. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi toured the Richmond facility and reports on the new wireless mesh security system.

CSO Magazine
Industry View: How to Avoid Five Common Misconceptions About Video Analytics
This article covers the five biggest myths of video analytics technology and practice, and examines the true state-of-the-art.

A&S International
Global Digital Surveillance Forum Focuses on Central Management Systems
"Video Surveillance Solutions” were covered in the third track of GDSF. ObjectVideo's Director of Global Marketing Ed Troha described how video Content analytics can enable central management systems.




Security Director News
IP Technology White Paper
"View from the top" - Security directors need to prove value of convergence to senior leadership
"Buzz surrounds analytics" - Users define technology’s value

SecuritySolutions.com
Where on the Network?
Video analytics technology is central to the latest security systems, but many suggest the technology is best applied at the edge of the network.

Security Director News
City aims for improved living conditions
The city of Richmond - located 16 miles northeast of San Francisco - is embarking on a venture to build two wireless public surveillance networks that officials hope will reduce trespassing and copper theft, and cut down on illegal dumping.

ipvideomarket.info - John Honovich
ObjectVideo : New Life for Legacy DVR Manufacturers?
The most important strategic move of the year may have occurred last week when ObjectVideo announced the ability to add their analytics to DVRs by a simple software upgrade.

Security Systems News
ObjectVideo now "OnBoard" Intel Architecture
ObjectVideo took a big step toward making its video analytics more ubiquitous this week with an announcement that its OnBoard suite of analytics is now available on Intel Architecture.




Security World International
The Quandry of Video Analytics: Pearls in the Mud
Choose real intelligent video in the noisy and confused market.

Security Products
Not Just a Game
It must be the “Hollywood effect”— whenever a casino’s looking at video analytics, the discussion often leads down the path of far-fetched concepts and applications for catching and tracking cheats.

Security Director News
Municipal project heats up in California
The city of Richmond -- located 16 miles northeast of San Francisco -- is embarking on a venture to build two wireless public surveillance networks that officials hope will reduce trespassing and copper theft, and cut down on illegal dumping.

Security Products
A Boost at the Border
Because it is physically impossible to watch every foot of perimeter and border fencing or walls all the time, increasingly the security function falls to cameras.




Security World International
What is Intelligent Video? ObjectVideo Has the Answer.
As the leading global developer of intelligent video technology, ObjectVideo has helped customers integrate its software for security, public safety, business intelligence gathering, process improvement and other applications.

Security Systems News
Video analytics attracts crowds at TechSec
DALLAS--Here at TechSec Solutions, a conference dedicated to how IP technology affects all aspects of the security industry, no topic drew crowds like that of video analytics.

Security Systems News
TechSec attendees hear call to arms for standards
DALLAS--Here at the fourth annual TechSec Solutions, designed to explore the impact of IP technology on the security industry, attendees were treated from the outset to a call to arms for standards development.




Security Systems News
Next step: Making it all work together
The video analytics market begins to integrate with the rest of the security marketplace

Washington Business Journal
ObjectVideo gets defense contract
Video-surveillance company ObjectVideo Inc. said it won a $1.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to track and analyze information for the government's aircraft-based surveillance systems.

WashingtonTechnology
ObjectVideo to provide surveillance technology for DARPA
ObjectVideo will provide the ground station component for a new class of aircraft-based surveillance systems under a three-year, $1.6 million contract the company has with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.




SDM Magazine
On Some or All Cameras?
Depending on the installation, different levels of video intelligence can be deployed in certain cameras.

ISC365
Demystifying video analytics – is "intelligent" now a dirty word?
Edward Troha, Director of Marketing for ObjectVideo, questions the actual intelligence of some video analytics packages.

SDM Magazine
Testing 1,2,3… Testing…
Enthusiasm for video analytics is high, but its capabilities are still being evaluated in various applications.




T.H.E. Journal
Does the Eye Spy?
At the head of every school's security wish list is video surveillance, which districts are embracing at breakneck speed. In the "School Safety Index," a report released this past summer by technology reseller CDW-G, 63 percent of the 381 responding districts said they have installed security cameras, with many more considering their use over the next two years.

Access Control & Security Systems
Partner Practice
Suppliers in the security industry are realizing the advantages of collaboration over competition in producing converged and integrated technologies that better serve the market.

SourceSecurity.com
Demystifying video analytics – is "intelligent" now a dirty word?
Perhaps the more important question is "what can you do today to most effectively educate yourself on the fact and fiction of video analytics?"

ASMAG.com
Video Analytics: Separating Fact from Fiction
Intelligent video analytics, or computer vision, hold a great deal of promise, but the results so far have been disappointing. Alan Lipton, Chief Technology Officer for ObjectVideo, discussed reasonable expectations for video analytics at the Global Digital Surveillance Forum, part of SecuTech Expo 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan.




Washington Technology
By Land and Sea
In a Senate hearing room Sept. 27, a video showed a man walking across a meadow carrying a red duffel bag. The man was a Government Accountability Office investigator who was simulating a terrorist smuggling radioactive materials into the United States from Canada.

Access Control & Security Systems
Tech Watch - Intelligent Video Network
OV Ready, an XML-based intelligent video network protocol, standardizes ObjectVideo's video analytic rule, alert and configuration communications.

ASMAG.com
GDSF China: An Insight into Security Trends
With increasing convergence of IP, IT and security technology, video surveillance is on a stable, if not explosive, growth curve.




CSO Magazine
Look Smart
Rick Santoro, who’s in charge of security for Trump Entertainment Resorts in Atlantic City, N.J., would seem the ideal candidate for using video content analysis—that is, technology that helps organizations draw intelligence from their surveillance video. Hotel and casino operators like Santoro’s company are known for having cutting-edge surveillance, the better to prevent loss and fraud on their high-stakes gambling floors.

SecurityWorld Magazine
SecurityWorld Magazine Interviews John Clark, VP, ObjectVideo
Acknowledged as the worlds leading provider of intelligent video software with more than 700,000 channels of video analytics sold worldwide, ObjectVideo was founded in 1998 by renowned scientists and program managers.




Cabling Installation & Maintenance
Analytics add intelligence to IP surveillance systems
End-user organizations planning to include video surveillance among the operations that function over their information technology (IT) networks face a myriad of questions and possibilities before beginning deployment.

Info 4 Security
Intelligent CCTV trialled at Sheffield station
An intelligent CCTV system is being trialled at Sheffield station to help detect suspect packages and improve passenger safety.




Securityinfowatch.com
Intelligent Video has a Bright Future
The costs of video analytics are coming down, and the benefits are expanding far beyond security

SecuritySolutions.com
Searchable VIDEO
People remember faces and events using various mental techniques.

Forbes.com
Rise Of The Robot Cameras
Software-powered security cameras that can spot crimes and alert the cops are spreading fast. (slideshow)

Security Systems News Europe
Finding (intelligent) diamonds in the rough can be tough, but not impossible
In nature, intelligence provides the ability to adapt to real-time changes in the environment to help ensure survival. Scientists in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have been trying to get computers to do this for over 40 years, and the few problems they have managed to solve in the AI field of computer vision are the key to video analytics or video content analysis or intelligent video.




Security Magazine
Virtual Police in Public Housing
More than 350,000 public housing residents in Puerto Rico sleep easier these days knowing that, in addition to the on-site physical police force, a virtual police force now watches their complex all the time. What began two years ago as a pilot project has grown to become a model intelligent system for public housing.

Security Systems News
OV and TI team with Hangzhou Hikvision
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, the largest manufacturer of digital surveillance equipment in China, has agreed to incorporate ObjectVideo's analytics suite into its video surveillance product line, using Texas Instruments' DaVinci chip technology.

Security Technology & Design
Analytics for Your Health
Intelligent video can streamline a hospital's surveillance efforts

ASMAG.com
Product Sectors and Challenges in US Market Segments
According to IMS Research, the U.S. CCTV market was estimated at US$1.89 billion in 2006, growing to $2.67 billion by 2011. Canada's CCTV market was estimated at $136.8 million in 2006, growing to $206.9 million by 2011.

ASMAG.com
Intelligent Video Solutions Tackle Real-Life Hurdles
Intelligent video surveillance solutions grab the limelight at security shows, with eye-popping demonstrations of what analytics can do. Getting the same results when the analytics are running out of controlled environments is tricky, but a few vendors are trying to do just that for a range of market segments.

ASMAG.com
Technology Giants
Back in March, 2007. Texas Instruments officially announced a cooperative arrangement whereby Chinese DVR manufacturer Hikvision would adopt TI’s DaVinci solution. Intelligent video analysis provider ObjectVideo, chipset innovator Techwell and hard-drive leader Seagate also confirmed their support of Hikvision as well as a new product research-development partnership.




Security Director News
A closer look at ObjectVideo
The term intelligent video normally doesn't conjure up thoughts of spiders and raindrops. But to the engineers at ObjectVideo, these small items are of as much concern as other alarm-triggering events and the team here is constantly fine-tuning its analytics software to enhance its operation.

Washington Business Journal
ObjectVideo sets sights on building controls
ObjectVideo Inc. is moving beyond its primary market in security surveillance with a new application that enables its video analytics software to sense how many people are in a room. The Reston company built a strong position in the video-surveillance space by embedding its software on chips used in cameras and other hardware as part of systems that protect business and government assets.




Securityinfowatch.com
Live from ISC West, Day 2: A Security Dealer Trends Report
Security Dealers Greg McConnell put his finger on top security trends and technologies movers.

Security Director News
AD grabs objective partner
American Dynamics recently began showcasing its Intellex digital video management solution integrated with ObjectVideo VEW software, enabling customers to deploy analytics in multiple environments.




Electronicstalk
Reference designs speed camera introductions
Texas Instruments is gaining broad support in the market for its video surveillance solutions based on DaVinci technology.




USA Today
Surveillance cameras get smarter
Researchers and security companies are developing cameras that not only watch the world but also interpret what they see. Soon, some cameras may be able to find unattended bags at airports, guess your height or analyze the way you walk to see if you are hiding something.

Security Systems News Europe
Link Integrated teams with ObjectVideo to secure RAF Base
Link Integrated, an integrator based in the UK, has teamed up with US firm ObjectVideo to install the largest intelligent video analytics project in the UK, at Royal Air Force Northold. Link designed, installed and commissioned the system using ObjectVideo's OnBoard technology.