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MicroSPM™

Today, the effectiveness of video surveillance is limited by the attentiveness and number of trained human operators. Many organizations lack the resources to monitor large banks of video surveillance displays in real-time, and so they store the video imagery and analyze it later for forensic purposes. The downside is that they lose the ability to respond immediately and appropriately to an event as it occurs. In organizations that do monitor surveillance video in real-time, even extremely well-trained and vigilant operators sometimes overlook significant events because of information overload.

ViaLogy's MicroSPM™ offloads this burden of event detection and recognition from the operator. Deployed at the camera source, the MicroSPM™ digital signal processor supports sophisticated, high-resolution video-analytics software from leading vendors to perform functions such as people counting, object counting, and discriminating between people and objects. Support for face recognition and license-plate recognition are under development. Uniquely, MicroSPM™ analyzes the video at the network edge instead of on centralized servers. Only when it has identified pre-specified events of interest does it transmit video to human operators for decision and action, thereby conserving valuable network bandwidth. Used in locations such as airports, train and subway stations, border crossings, ports, dams, rail lines, financial and governmental institutions, power grids, utilities, and refining facilities, MicroSPM™ can significantly reduce the number of human operators required to monitor banks of video consoles and manually control cameras. The benefits are lower staffing and training costs for operators and fewer missed events.

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