Enhancing Video Surveillance with Edge Analytics-enabled Smart Cameras - Sasken
About ten years ago, video surveillance was simple and straightforward. Manufacturers, organizations, law enforcement bodies, etc. installed cameras as both a deterrent as well as a means of reactive control.
Motion detection
Object movement detection
Facial recognition
Crowd detection
Geofence violation detection
Object or person counting
Tampering detection
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Fire recognition
2. Edge Analytics Cameras and the Industrial Sector
While the video surveillance industry is undergoing a radical change, there is a massive digital transformation effort underway in the manufacturing industry as well. The Industry 4.0 trend has manufacturers turning to sensors to gather data from a wide variety of industrial activities, processing the data on the Edge/Cloud, and enabling multiple use cases such as Remote Monitoring, Predictive Maintenance, Asset tracking, etc.
Enhanced video surveillance can enable a multitude of use cases for a manufacturing environment. Some of them include:
a. Detecting motion in a restricted area, such as server closet, high-voltage equipment, hazardous materials, etc.
b. Monitoring the movement of valuable assets, such as molds and identifying line-crossing events, such as a factory worker reaching an unsafe zone, etc.
c. Regulating the HVAC temperature based on the presence of employees in a particular area.
3. Edge Analytics Cameras and Smart Building
Smart building interacts with multiple systems, people, and external elements. They use sensors to collect data from different systems (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, etc.) and manage it according to different business functions.
4. The Speed and Accuracy Trade-offs
The speed and accuracy of the above Industrial and Building Automation use cases is very critical. The response time will be delayed if the video feed is analyzed on the Cloud, but it will be much faster if the video feed is analyzed on the Edge.
Sasken has extensive experience in Hardware, Embedded and Digital engineering and has leveraged its Machine Vision expertise to develop Smart Cameras enabled with Edge as well as Cloud Analytics capabilities for use cases in Building Automation, Manufacturing, and Automotive with the required accuracy and speed.
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