The expenses of escalating retail crime, including loss prevention, rocketed to $128 billion in 2011, the equivalent of $200 per family. This spike has forced retailers to increase spending on loss prevention and security by 10%, to $26.8 billion annually.
While protecting a company’s assets is one of the most important tasks of the security professional, until now, an hourly walkabout by the security guard was the tried-and-true status quo.
No more.
Oncam is at the forefront of a new trend in the industry – the remote and mobile viewing of business-critical assets—and the business owner or security firm no longer needs a constant human presence on scene. All that’s required is an iPad, iPhone, or an Android device equipped with a free, downloadable app from the iTunes Store called OnVu360. With it, Oncam Grandeye has placed business-quality surveillance and patented de-warping software at its customers’ fingertips— literally—giving them the ability to monitor multiple Oncam Grandeye 360-degree cameras from any location, all in real time. This app enables 24/7/365 access to the information that is business critical.
The app, already downloaded more than 15,000 times and in use in U.S and U.K retail stores, has been awarded Product of the Year by the U.S. publication, Security Products. It’s tactile and addicting; users literally move the fisheye image around with their fingers, panning, tilting and zooming as necessary.
Here is what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlaqeWhgzd0
The app offers professional attributes such as retrospective analysis, which allows users to track someone through time. At a larger retail store, for example, a thief could be tracked through the entire store and eventually traced back to his entrance. The user’s fingers seem to become the camera, ‘virtually’ following the criminal until the security crew can make a capture. In addition, the forensic capability lets business owners go back in time to verify whether there was indeed a slip and fall, a theft, incident and the video evidence can later be used in any resulting investigation.
For franchise owners, OnVu360 gives the ability to view multiple stores from a mobile device while utilising the benefits of 360-degree technology and realising cost savings with a reduced camera count.
No longer do store owners need to drive to multiple stores as they can view each location from their home or office. The security Director can also view different locations just by selecting the camera location on his mobile device. The technology also enables multiple operators to view different views from the same camera at the same time and because the whole 360-degree scene is being recorded, there are no blind spots and the history of the area is available for analysis.
Put simply, OnVu360 extends Oncam Grandeye’s intelligent integration of technology that identifies genuine threats through Total Situational Awareness—knowing everything that is going on from wherever the viewer is and at any time of day or night but without the need for hundreds of cameras and with no blind spots. Before now, retailers weren’t able to capture an incident, or the image wasn’t adequate. Oncam Grandeye’s technology enables forensic identification of suspicious activity at the touch of a finger – each and every time.
It truly is tomorrow’s technology today.
