Benefits of Using CCTV Systems with Video Analytics

What do you get when you combine CCTV systems used for security and surveillance with sophisticated video analytics software? If it’s done right, you get an enhanced security camera surveillance system that can pinpoint patterns of activities and bring them to the attention of security personnel, identify problems before they happen and make it easier to find specific events in hours of video footage. Here are just a few of the major benefits of video analytics enabled CCTV systems.

Security personnel can set up video analytics to recognize people, events or situations when they happen and base alerts on known patterns and people. This can be used to watch for specific security risks, monitor the behavior of specific persons or alert personnel to the possibility of a security breach based on what the camera sees.

CCTV systems enabled with video analytics software can reduce the workload on existing security personnel by covering large open spaces, perimeter fencing and remote areas and raising a video alert when specific events occur in those areas.

Video analytics allows you to “tag” faces, people, events and other patterns when they occur in a surveillance camera video. Once tagged, the CCTV system will recognize those patterns if they occur again and “bookmark” them so that you can find them when reviewing security footage.

Heat maps and other sophisticated technology can be used to monitor crowds at large events and watch for patterns that are precursors to problems. Analytics can help CCTV systems become more “intelligent” about things like unusual gatherings of large numbers of people or a change in the way traffic moves at certain areas.

CCTV security systems can be “trained” to recognize patterns of suspicious behavior, such as a person trying multiple car doors in a parking lot, and alert security personnel to take a closer look at the scene.

CCTV analytics can make it easier for personnel assigned to monitor and review security camera footage by flagging specific people, events and out-of-the-ordinary occurrences that might be missed in the hours of footage.

Video tagging can be used to scan and search for specific faces, areas and events making it easy to go directly to those things without having to wade through hours of CCTV footage looking for them. This can be especially helpful in finding and displaying security footage for use in court cases and criminal prosecutions.

For more information about how video analytics and CCTV systems can help make your home or place of business more secure, contact a CCTV professional installer for the latest developments in video security technology.