Heightened Surveillance Security with no CCTV “Snooping”

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Heightened Surveillance Security with no CCTV “Snooping”

The world continues to debate Edward Snowden’s revelations. However, Viseum UK of London, England has developed a hi-tech network of autonomous surveillance cameras to spot crime, whilst keeping prying human eyes unsighted - unless potentially harmful activity seems likely. Stuart Thompson is the owner of Viseum UK. He reflects that Britain has more surveillance cameras per capita than virtually anywhere else in the world. Yet he laments, that instead of creating the omniscient “Machine” - a crime-fighting system, featured in CBS series "Person of Interest"- Britain's conventional CCTV cameras swamp thousands of expensive police & video surveillance operators with information that overloads them and arguably infringes privacy. Thompson says:

“Conventional CCTV (if working and pointing in the right direction) only overloads operators with imagery. Crimes can be hidden in a sea of routine activity, or masked by more interesting, even prurient video surveillance footage..... Discerning suspicious and potentially harmful indicators within a sea of mundane and innocent routine is thus a needle-in-the-haystack task that human beings are exceptionally bad at. In an increasingly litigious society – no one wants a missed or badly-handled local event to play out in court with strategic risks for resource, reputation and revenue”

However the London inventor says his computer-automated CCTV system is optimised for anywhere human beings live and work. Viseum’s Intelligent Moving Camera (IMC) is controlled by video surveillance software called intelligent Virtual Operator Software (iVOS). The system will passively gaze across a 360 degree panorama, until it senses trouble, at which point IMC autonomously uses a pan tilt zoom lens to take a closer look and track suspicious activity out to extreme distances. These smart systems can recognize and track a troublemaker, or terror suspect - with far greater reliability than any human CCTV operator.


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