Vemotion Interactive, the UK manufacturer of low-latency, high-performance, plug & play live video streaming solutions, has further enhanced its range of V-TX intelligent video transmission technology, employing new AI based analytics.
Artificial Intelligence (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, especially for critical national infrastructure (CNI) applications, has, until now, been limited.
Analytics identification scenarios
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, intelligent real-time monitoring, that empowers rapid responses to potential and occurring threats.
Vemotion AI can increase effectiveness across a range of targeted surveillance applications
In the case of deployment with Vemotion’s true ‘plug & 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, Vemotion AI can increase effectiveness across a range of targeted surveillance applications, delivering highly accurate analytics detection and alerts.
Immediate threat detection
Being able to see what is 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, to trigger instant alerts in public spaces such 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 actions. 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 event management.
Protecting surveillance systems
Vemotion edge recording can be incorporated to download video footage when the network recovers
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, essential for high security applications. This functionality is possible because Vemotion video encoders communicate to the video server and when it isn’t communicating, the server is aware and generates an alert.
In addition, to aid incident awareness and analysis, if a network has failed, instead of valuable video footage being lost for ever, 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.
Vemotion AI can also detect fire and smoke, and be used for people counting
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 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.
Cutting-edge technology
“The functionality we’ve created will identify and issue and alert so that a human can remotely check if that alert needs action,” says 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 our most vital assets, ensuring a safer future for us all.”
