What Is Intelligent Video?

Brief explanations of intelligent video functions and IP camera software have been touched upon in other posts like this one, however the information is scattered so I’d like to devote some space to the what, why, and how of intelligent video:

• What it is and what it can do.
• Why you want to use it and how it will save you time.
• How intelligent video applications are used.

What’s Intelligent Video?

What do you do with an overwhelming amount of surveillance video?  Think about how much effort it would take to properly sift through recordings done 24/7/365.

Most likely you’re lacking the time, energy, or resources to do this.  That is what’s led to the development of intelligent video (also known as video analytics) to help review the overwhelming amount of video and prevent you from overlooking important events, incidents, or crimes.

Intelligent video analyzes IP surveillance video using mathematical algorithms to highlight the noteworthy events to aid your decision making or provide evidence.

What Can It Do?

Being that video is the most genuine record of when something happened and what it was, intelligent video systems never stop working.  Taking care of the 24/7 details so you don’t have to, intelligent video:

• Frees up staff from the responsibility of constantly monitoring multiple cameras.
• Provides the ability to quickly search for notable events.
• Reduces the strain on network bandwidth and storage space – why store video if nothing happened?

Intelligent video offers functions such as license plate recognition and facial detection.  It can even set up a virtual fence to alert you when someone is tresspassing a sensitive building.  Sony IP cameras offer this and they’ve put a nice video together that explains it:

Sony Virtual Borderline

Get Started

Here are a couple more links that are extremely helpful to get you started on how intelligent video works and what it does:

• Sony Intelligent Motion Detection
• Sony Tampering Alarm