Video, Security and Integration Summit 2006
Fortune 100 Security Operations and IT Executives Gather to Review the State of the Video Surveillance and Security Industry at the Video, Security and Integration Summit 2006
Interoperable, Open-Architecture, IP Video Surveillance and Enterprise Security Systems Demonstrated by Industry Leaders BroadWare Technologies, Extreme CCTV and Cernium
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 15, 2006, – BroadWare Technologies, the leader in open scalable distributed video surveillance, recently co-sponsored the Video, Security and Integration Summit 2006, a gathering of Fortune 100 security and IT leaders called to review the state of the art in the video surveillance and security industries. Along with Axis Communications, Cernium Intelligent Video, Extreme CCTV and MDS Wireless Networking, BroadWare hosted executives from a wide variety of industries including oil and gas, chemicals, health care, food processing, electronics, engineering, aerospace, airport management, transit and transportation, international shipping, travel and hospitality, law enforcement, security, manufacturing, utilities, water management, federal and local government, retail and others. The VSI Summit was held over two days during separate sessions in Dallas and Houston.
Highly publicized incidents in recent years have put the spotlight on public safety, employee safety and security in the work place and public venues. During the VSI Summit, industry leaders demonstrated standards-based, interoperable, open-architecture, IP video systems integrated together to fulfill the unique needs of enterprise and public sector security and surveillance applications.
“Our industry has changed dramatically due to the migration from analog to digital video, enabling images to be managed, analyzed and distributed over the IT infrastructure in important new ways. The pace of this change has accelerated and will continue to do so over the next few years,” BroadWare Vice President of Marketing Dennis Charlebois told the summit. “Video security and IT are converging rapidly and this is creating pressure to move towards more open technologies and more open standards that support interoperable connectivity and increased bandwidth. Organizations are being driven to do more with less, thus requiring greater ROI and improved productivity.”
Presenters discussed how standards from the IT world are now being required in physical plants and building security systems. They also noted that digital video systems have become more affordable, making it possible to provide better enterprise and public sector security with smaller budgets and a higher ROI.
“Technology now makes it possible for very high quality images to be captured in any environment, anywhere in the world and shared over IP networks,” explained Brian Montgomery, an executive with Extreme CCTV. “Some newer technologies can even capture images such as license plates that are normally not seen by standard cameras. Accurate facial images can now be captured from anywhere between ten miles and three feet.”
Several speakers described how integrated video analytics systems can be used to assist security personnel in working more efficiently and more accurately. They described how images can be captured with high quality cameras, encoded on servers and transmitted via wireless and other IP-based networks.
Phil Robertson, VP of corporate development for Cernium pointed out that some corporate security executives believe incorrectly that if they keep adding cameras to their surveillance systems, this will increase security, but this premise fails to consider human performance issues.
“Adding more cameras alone does not increase security,” Robertson emphasized. “Industry studies show that a security person can effectively watch between nine and twelve cameras for only fifteen minutes, and it’s possible that the average human’s observation capabilities are even shorter than that. It’s imperative to leverage tools like video analytics to help security personnel to be more effective by focusing their attention to the right video information at the right time by presenting only that data that is relevant to the situation at hand.”
The summit also discussed how complementary technology developers, complementary service providers and expert consultants are coming together to deliver video systems that provide fully integrated solutions to enterprise customers. The primary reason cited for this trend was the emergence of open standards for distributing IP video over intelligent networks, and managing video bandwidth and video storage resources.
A more detailed summary of the Summit, including the post-conference papers, is available for download at www.BroadWare.com/News/Events/VSIS2006.pdf
About BroadWare Technologies, Inc.
BroadWare Technologies is the industry pioneer in enabling distribution, viewing, storage and management of real-time video in a networked environment. BroadWare Media Server provides a highly scalable server platform for deploying distributed video surveillance systems for defense, homeland security, transportation and law enforcement applications. BroadWare's clients include Arinc, Boeing, Honeywell, Intergraph, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Siemens. End users include major airports and seaports, transportation systems and many federal agencies and military branches
Interoperable, Open-Architecture, IP Video Surveillance and Enterprise Security Systems Demonstrated by Industry Leaders BroadWare Technologies, Extreme CCTV and Cernium
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 15, 2006, – BroadWare Technologies, the leader in open scalable distributed video surveillance, recently co-sponsored the Video, Security and Integration Summit 2006, a gathering of Fortune 100 security and IT leaders called to review the state of the art in the video surveillance and security industries. Along with Axis Communications, Cernium Intelligent Video, Extreme CCTV and MDS Wireless Networking, BroadWare hosted executives from a wide variety of industries including oil and gas, chemicals, health care, food processing, electronics, engineering, aerospace, airport management, transit and transportation, international shipping, travel and hospitality, law enforcement, security, manufacturing, utilities, water management, federal and local government, retail and others. The VSI Summit was held over two days during separate sessions in Dallas and Houston.
Highly publicized incidents in recent years have put the spotlight on public safety, employee safety and security in the work place and public venues. During the VSI Summit, industry leaders demonstrated standards-based, interoperable, open-architecture, IP video systems integrated together to fulfill the unique needs of enterprise and public sector security and surveillance applications.
“Our industry has changed dramatically due to the migration from analog to digital video, enabling images to be managed, analyzed and distributed over the IT infrastructure in important new ways. The pace of this change has accelerated and will continue to do so over the next few years,” BroadWare Vice President of Marketing Dennis Charlebois told the summit. “Video security and IT are converging rapidly and this is creating pressure to move towards more open technologies and more open standards that support interoperable connectivity and increased bandwidth. Organizations are being driven to do more with less, thus requiring greater ROI and improved productivity.”
Presenters discussed how standards from the IT world are now being required in physical plants and building security systems. They also noted that digital video systems have become more affordable, making it possible to provide better enterprise and public sector security with smaller budgets and a higher ROI.
“Technology now makes it possible for very high quality images to be captured in any environment, anywhere in the world and shared over IP networks,” explained Brian Montgomery, an executive with Extreme CCTV. “Some newer technologies can even capture images such as license plates that are normally not seen by standard cameras. Accurate facial images can now be captured from anywhere between ten miles and three feet.”
Several speakers described how integrated video analytics systems can be used to assist security personnel in working more efficiently and more accurately. They described how images can be captured with high quality cameras, encoded on servers and transmitted via wireless and other IP-based networks.
Phil Robertson, VP of corporate development for Cernium pointed out that some corporate security executives believe incorrectly that if they keep adding cameras to their surveillance systems, this will increase security, but this premise fails to consider human performance issues.
“Adding more cameras alone does not increase security,” Robertson emphasized. “Industry studies show that a security person can effectively watch between nine and twelve cameras for only fifteen minutes, and it’s possible that the average human’s observation capabilities are even shorter than that. It’s imperative to leverage tools like video analytics to help security personnel to be more effective by focusing their attention to the right video information at the right time by presenting only that data that is relevant to the situation at hand.”
The summit also discussed how complementary technology developers, complementary service providers and expert consultants are coming together to deliver video systems that provide fully integrated solutions to enterprise customers. The primary reason cited for this trend was the emergence of open standards for distributing IP video over intelligent networks, and managing video bandwidth and video storage resources.
A more detailed summary of the Summit, including the post-conference papers, is available for download at www.BroadWare.com/News/Events/VSIS2006.pdf
About BroadWare Technologies, Inc.
BroadWare Technologies is the industry pioneer in enabling distribution, viewing, storage and management of real-time video in a networked environment. BroadWare Media Server provides a highly scalable server platform for deploying distributed video surveillance systems for defense, homeland security, transportation and law enforcement applications. BroadWare's clients include Arinc, Boeing, Honeywell, Intergraph, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Siemens. End users include major airports and seaports, transportation systems and many federal agencies and military branches