SST : Security-Systems Technology

Advances in technology mean that the monitoring and analysis of CCTV pictures which used to take the dedicated attention of security personnel can now be automated, helping to reduce human error and saving your business time and money. SST operates in partnership with industry leaders Ipsotek to provide solutions in the field of advanced behavioural analytics - the ability for a system to monitor a CCTV image and identify behaviours and trends that ought to be brought to an operator's attention.

Video Analytics is a rapidly expanding sector of the security industry. Advances in technology mean that the monitoring and analysis of CCTV pictures which used to take the dedicated attention of security personnel can now be automated, helping to reduce human error and saving your business time and money.

Intelligent Solutions

SST operates in partnership with industry leaders Ipsotek to provide solutions in the field of advanced behavioural analytics - the ability for a system to monitor a CCTV image and identify behaviours and trends that ought to be brought to an operator's attention. This means that an operator need only assess CCTV images flagged by the system rather than monitoring continuously.

Alarm or Statistics-based

The system will continuously monitor a CCTV image and will create an alarm if certain behaviours occur. This could be the behaviour of a person, a vehicle anything that moves. Once a normal pattern of movement is established, the system will identify abnormal movement and will trigger an alarm accordingly

A statistics-based scenario is one where the CCTV camera is gathering useful information to be analysed some time later such as people counting in large retail and entertainment venues and activity analysis in casinos.

Intruder Detection

The system will reliably detect intruders with a very low False Alert rate. When an Alert does occur the operator is instantly shown the image that produced it, allowing an ‘at a glance' assessment to be made without the need for switching and/or training cameras on the Alert zone.

Conditions can be user-defined to produce an alert - time of day, presence of a valued item, absence of an RFID tag, presence of only one person etc.

Behavioural Analysis

Some situations offer no substitute for the trained eye of an experienced CCTV operator, however many more routine behaviours, such as approaching a secure perimeter or loitering in a car park, are easily analysed. It is these scenarios where Video Analytics can prove to be most effective, providing vigilance 24 hours per day at a fraction of the cost of additional control room staff.

Example Applications

• Motion of stationary objects: if, for example, an exhibit in a museum or art gallery starts to move then the operator will receive an alarm
• Non Motion Detection of objects: for example no motion of abandoned luggage at airports or abandoned vehicles in sensitive or high risk areas
• Virtual Tripwire / Sterile Zone Monitoring: for use in applications like detecting intruders in high security or safety sensitive sites like Airport Runways, Railway Tracks, High Rise landmarks etc.
• Motion Direction of Objects: Identifying Counter Flow where people/traffic are moving in either a wrong or unexpected direction such as the wrong way in a one way system; also to identify people, vehicles etc. visiting sites under surveillance
• Loitering Detection: loitering can quite often be a precursor to crime so a person or persons hanging around a site particularly a known trouble spot will be identified and the operator's attention drawn to the situation
• Tailgating in Access Control: to identify if an individual or vehicle follows too closely the person or vehicle in front to get past access controlled entrances or barriers
• People or Vehicle Counting: used to identify overcrowding in queues say at airports, railway stations, supermarkets etc.; for marketing purposes to identify the number of people visiting different parts of a shopping centre so rents can be calculated