Knowledge and experience is key to successful implementation.
Artificial intelligence, or A.I.; deep learning; CV or computer vision; analytics; new hardware terms like CPUs and GPUs; neural networks; cloud versus edge processing. These are just a few of the cool new words, acronyms, and phrases being thrown around in our industry to simultaneously enlighten and confuse.
I get calls all the time from people asking a lot of questions about this new technology. What it is? How much does it cost? How is it installed? Who can I sell it to? How much can I charge? All of these are good questions and show a definite interest by many who want to be on the leading edge of technology. Unfortunately, there isn’t a simple answer. Nor is there really good or easily understood material available for security and monitoring center professionals to be educated as to how all of this works, at least not yet.