Types of Intelligent Systems

The recent trends in technology are increasingly in the realm of intelligent systems. Every new product advances the concept and proclaims with an unmistakable sign that the future of security will belong to intelligent systems. Some of the trends percolating through the security markets are:

1)      Intelligent Motion Detection: Another evolutionary change bubbling up from security suppliers is the move to “smarter” equipment and software – an integrated digital video recorder with camera to provide intelligent motion detection which would detect only human movement, as opposed to an animal moving. This makes a vast improvement over the present day systems which do not distinguish between human and animal in the scene.

Yet another variation being explored as to trigger alarm, if an object that should be stationary is missing from the field of view of a camera.

 2)      Detecting Suspicious Behaviour: To help security to detect suspicious behavior, two new capabilities are being introduced in the CCTV system. One would be the ability to set the system to alarm if an object, such as bag, is left behind by someone. Another option would be to set the system to track movement rather than objects or people.

 3)      Facial Recognition in the Watch-list: In this era of heightened security threat from terrorism, the existing facial recognition technology is being improved to add facial recognition capabilities with an understanding of color, depth, and dimension to its CCTV systems. Another innovation is to incorporate facial recognition technology in employee access control systems or in ”watch-list” alert applications-matching faces that enter an area against a list of suspected terrorists or criminals.

 4)      Danger Management: Includes integration of several danger management methods like life-safety, and security systems. The idea is to use “fuzzy “ Computer Logic to create features so that the system can automate active countermeasures to facilitate handling of events.

 5)      Teaching the Door: Today’s doors sense motion, but they do not sense when some one stands in the way of the door. The new technology would “teach” the door to avoid the scenario. It would also record video of what was in the door at the time it closed for later review in the event of a claim.

 6)      Rent the Software: Here, a company rents security software services via the internet from a supplier, rather than buying and administering the program itself. The web-based video monitoring service is intended to give companies the stability to remote monitor sites and store digital video without spending the Money and time (the server and computer applications). Those would be owned and maintained by service provider which essentially rents them out to clients.

 7)      Asset Tracking: Systems are getting smarter about how they can help a company track assets as well. In the past, asset tracking systems required the installation of expensive portals. To address that problem Virtual Central Points throughout a facility can be used using tags and RFID antennas, rather than expensive portals.

 8)      Temporary Security Options: Technological advances are also resulting in more modular equipment as well as devices that are easier to deploy, offering companies more portable or temporary security options – a portable video and alarm kit for travelling VIPs designed to be rapidly deployed, to secure a hotel room for example.