Neil Killick, VP International Sales, OpenEye explains why open matters in the age of AI video analytics.
AI creates efficiencies throughout various industries, from managing teams to operating businesses.
Key outcomes include faster investigations, fewer false alerts, automated operational checks and quicker support experiences.
These advancements free up time for users, allowing them to focus on priorities that drive ROI.
When it comes to surveillance, AI is powering a new generation of vision language-powered video analytics, a technology that has adapted systems meant solely for security into solutions capable of identifying actionable insights and streamlining workflows.
When choosing a surveillance system powered by AI, it’s vital to select an open platform.
In contrast to closed systems, an open platform enables flexible integration with existing security and business systems.
This offers businesses a greater return on their initial security investment while still providing an adaptable model built for the innovations of tomorrow.
Investing in new security infrastructure while simultaneously deploying AI technology presents a variety of problems and risks for businesses.
Your team will have to manage both rollouts for your teams at the same time, driving up costs and training challenges.
By selecting an open platform, businesses can apply their newfound AI capabilities to existing cameras that weren’t originally built with analytics.
Instead of having to replace your entire system, which can involve multiple weeks, months or years of ripping out cabling and video security infrastructure, businesses can leverage analytics on the server itself to save time while reducing deployment costs.
This gives cameras a new lifespan by unlocking all the advantages video analytics brings, including person and vehicle detection and line crossing analytics, providing additional power to system alerts and visual search capabilities.
An open platform also gives businesses the flexibility to scale security systems and add devices as needs evolve.
This approach enables organisations to upgrade at their chosen pace, bringing in new devices when it best fits the budget and operational priorities.
With an open platform, businesses can find and select the AI solutions that work best for them.
This gives organisations greater flexibility when implementing a video analytics solution. AI-enabled devices can be added in the timeframe that works best for the needs of your business.
For example, if a business needs a camera with edge-based slip-and-fall analytics for just one area of their facilities, an open platform enables integration with the best solution for that need without having to replace the entire system.
This approach ensures you get maximum value from your investment while gaining the benefits of video analytics.
They can also bring onboard several analytic-enabled cameras while keeping much of their existing system, test different analytics offerings or slowly phase out their old system.
This is all possible thanks to the open platform which gives businesses the freedom of choice to find the best solutions for their business needs.
AI is an advanced technological achievement and today is the lowest level of performance it will ever produce.
The system investment you make today will need to be capable of taking advantage of features introduced in five years’ time.
As technologies continue to emerge, businesses can expand their ecosystem with an open platform, allowing them to integrate the applications that matter most to their business without being constrained by a single proprietary solution.
This reduces the risk businesses may feel by committing to a single platform.
Instead, they can leverage existing technology, including hardware, lowering upfront costs and providing an opportunity to adopt and integrate future solutions.
This also helps keep your surveillance up to date while mitigating timeline issues with the rollout of new AI features and provides a way to test new solutions for continued optimisation of your system for your business.
The open video platform is one of the best ways to ensure your business is getting the most out of the exciting advancements in AI.
With as many data points as there are provided by a modern security system, having a way to bring that information together in an integrated place is key.
Thanks to AI, that information can be parsed more efficiently for proactive insights into potential optimisations and visibility during critical events.
When finding the right video surveillance system for your business, be sure to select one that is not only AI-capable but also open.
This will provide your organisation with all of the benefits discussed above, including:
OpenEye’s intelligent open platform solution offers organisations the tools needed to get the most out of their initial security investment without missing out on advanced AI capabilities.
By integrating with OWS AI Analytics, businesses can use video analytics without having to completely replace the camera system, running the analytic capabilities on the server instead.
Additionally, OpenEye integrates with third-party analytics-enabled cameras.
This allows your business to choose the systems suited for your operations, providing greater flexibility and scalability.
OpenEye’s open platform can connect access control, point-of-sale, alarm and other security and business solutions.
Thanks to this capability, you can tie your systems together for a complete security framework, supercharged by AI to better protect your customers, employees and students.
This article was originally published in the April edition of Security Journal UK. To read your FREE digital edition, click here.
