Analytics Insights: Business Intelligence from Video Security Systems?

Originally published on Source Security

Camera Placement: The Key to Advanced Security

One of the most overlooked factors when installing video security systems is the strategic placement and quantity of cameras. Installing too few cameras often leaves critical areas under-monitored, failing to provide the coverage necessary for comprehensive security. Additionally, improperly positioned cameras with overly broad angles result in insufficient pixel density, which hampers the effectiveness of supporting technologies such as metadata extraction and face/license plate recognition. For instance, advanced video analytics thrive on high-quality footage which allows the technology to extract precise metadata. Correctly positioned cameras ensure video feeds are detailed enough to support these advanced features, leading to more accurate data and incident response.

The Business Intelligence Potential

Furthermore, many organizations overlook the potential of deriving business intelligence from their security assets. By ensuring video security systems are deployed with an optimal number of cameras, and then strategically placing those cameras to capture detailed views, enables organizations to extract the metadata needed to create business intelligence dashboards. These dashboards not only offer a comprehensive overview of security metrics and trends that empower data-driven decision-making and optimization of security protocols, but they also transform video into insight that can impact the entire organization, from operations to customer experience and beyond. Therefore, cameras are critical to maximizing the cross-departmental value of the system.

Bottom line: Don’t overlook the importance of camera quantity and placement when deploying a video security system.

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About the Author:

Seva Liokumovich is the Senior Manager of Global Solution Engineering at BriefCam, the leading provider of video analytics solutions that enable people, communities, and companies of any size to unlock the value of video surveillance content. With over 15 years of experience in the Physical Security industry, Seva has enjoyed working both sides of the “fence”; as an integrator for 6 years at Schneider Electric and Siemens, and for software manufacturers for 9 years at FST Biometrics and BriefCam. He has worked on projects in every vertical imaginable and still can’t help but look for security cameras when walking around.