Despite a false start many years ago, video analytics have finally emerged from under the shadow of disappointment and frustration that has long plagued the technology.
“With all of the ‘Minority Report’ and ‘CSI’ stuff from the past, there were a lot of misperceptions about what analytics can do and how they’re supposed to work. I think the industry [has] done a pretty good job of cleaning those things up,” says Alex Walthers, business development manager, application developer partner program, Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass.