Monday, 21 May 2012
Surveillance and facilities management
This section reviews the various technologies that are used to deliver video surveillance via the Internet, remote monitoring, as well as security features in intelligent buildings and data centers.
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Digital video surveillance enables embedded image capture capabilities that allows video images or extracted information to be compressed, stored or transmitted over communication networks or digital data link.
The term homeland security refers to the broad national effort by all levels of government to protect its territory from hazards, both internal and external, natural and man-made. The term is most often used in the United States; elsewhere, national security has more usage.
Intelligent building: Use of technology and process to create a building that is safer and more productive for its occupants and more operationally efficient for its owners.
Digital video surveillance enables embedded image capture capabilities that allows video images or extracted information to be compressed, stored or transmitted over communication networks or digital data link.
Remote surveillance is the ability to view a camera image that is located remotely, where the video image is transmitted over a phone line, the Internet or wireless.
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This video identification software extracts a “finger print” (video signature) for video clips that are matched with other video signatures in order to locate scenes quickly and accurately.
Tri-Tech Holding Inc. has secured contracts for flash flood early warning projects in three provinces in China.
HD Moore finds thousands of exposed conference and board rooms where secrets aren't so secret.
It seems like a contradictory statement: Reduce your security costs and improve your level of security for your customers, employees, and property. By leveraging managed video services, businesses can accomplish both of these goals because at its heart, this approach to security is about more effective utilization of existing resources.
As virtualization and cloud computing help organizations realize more from existing infrastructures, will they lessen the need to manage performance of the infrastructure?
