“You first have to know what you’re setting it up for,” points
out Dave Fowler, senior vice president of product development and
marketing for VidSys Inc., Vienna, Va., which integrates video
analytics systems with its software. “It becomes an issue first of what
you want to detect, and then selecting the right vendor that has the
analytics for those activities.”
David Ngau, product manager for video analytics in the marketing
group of Honeywell Security, Louisville, Ky., points out that analytics
are not always necessary on all cameras at an installation. For a job
with 200 video cameras, Ngau points out, “During the initial discussion
phase, you might find analytics are only valuable to 10 of those
cameras.”