Vemotion drives AI analytics to enhance situational awareness

AI has long been a cornerstone of achieving ‘more with less’ in various industries, offering capabilities like pattern recognition, predictive analytics and automation. However, its integration into video surveillance, notably so for Critical National Infrastructure applications, has (until now) been limited.

Developed to provide any streaming camera with a host of advanced analytics identification scenarios and alerts, the convergence of AI with Vemotion’s proprietary ultra-low latency, high-quality video streaming is poised to revolutionise the security surveillance sector. The integrated functionality enables highly effective and intelligent real-time monitoring that empowers rapid responses to potential and occurring threats.

In the case of deployment with Vemotion’s true ‘plug and play’ real-time, low-latency and high-quality streaming over GPRS, 3G, 4GLTE, 5G, Wi-Fi and Satellite or wired (UTP and fibre), live alerts can be used to provide an essential weapon in the detection armoury.

Supporting fixed IP, PTZ, drone, mobile and body-worn cameras, when deployed on the edge the Vemotion AI can increase effectiveness across a range of targeted surveillance applications, duly delivering highly accurate analytics detection and alerts.

Immediate threat detection 

Being able to see what’s happening ‘now’ and alerted to potential threats can lead to notable reductions in crime and increased incident reporting.

For example, AI algorithms can be used to analyse live feeds to identify suspicious activities such as loitering, aggressive behaviour or even entering into personal space in order to trigger instant alerts in public spaces such as town centres, airports, train stations and stadiums.

On alert, security personnel can monitor Vemotion’s high-quality, real-time live camera video or download edge-recorded footage to enable them to make swift decisions and take action. Moreover, continuous analytical analysis of key scenarios allows for the anticipation and prevention of incidents before they can escalate: a highly advantageous feature for deployment in high-security locations and the event management domain.

Protecting surveillance systems from tampering and downtime, Vemotion AI can also make system operators aware of a potential threat of video camera/network tampering or signal jamming by alerting of camera signal loss, which is essential for high-security applications. This functionality is possible as Vemotion video encoders communicate with the video server and, when it isn’t communicating, the server’s aware and generates an alert.

In addition, and to aid incident awareness and analysis, if a network has failed then instead of valuable video footage being lost forever, Vemotion edge recording can be incorporated to download video footage when the network recovers. With this functionality, no vital situational awareness or evidential data need be lost: a highly useful feature for cameras on non-wired networks.

Other AI applications 

Vemotion AI can reduce the costs of surveillance and vastly reduce false positives for analytics such as motion detection. The use of simple analytics to achieve better outcomes can be deployed across a host of applications. These can include border security to spot intrusions at fence lines or in remote areas to signal live alerts of fly-tipping. Vemotion AI can also detect fire and smoke and be used for people counting purposes.

For national security, Government agencies may look to deploy AI at wind farms out at sea where it has been reported that the giant wind turbine structures can create ‘reconnaissance blind spots’ and hide marine craft from costal radar.

Advanced scenarios 

Vemotion AI notifications can be configured to alert beyond that of the simple identification of human or vehicle detection so that a human with specific colour clothing, or a vehicle of a certain colour or with a specific license plate, can be detected to give enhanced accuracy to alert notifications.

Vemotion AI analytics can make a big difference to the effectiveness of any surveillance camera and add leverage to real-time alerting of incidents and scenarios. The technology is easy to add to existing infrastructure and suitable for use within a wide variety of professional video streaming applications.

“The functionality we’ve created will identify and issue an alert so that a human can remotely check if that alert needs action,” said Steve Haworth, CEO at Vemotion. “Vemotion AI is like having an assistant watching for you, providing alerts and the ability to monitor live camera links to view live or recorded footage from the edge. In short, we can leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance the security of the most vital assets.”

*Further information is available online at www.vemotion.com