Video Analytics: Mature Solution or Still-Developing Technology?
As solutions improve, integrators face decisions about when and how to deploy these technologies to provide additional benefits to their customers and generate all-important RMR.
The early struggles of video analytics technologies to live up to over-inflated expectations are well documented. Thankfully, improvements in performance have gone a long way toward overcoming end users’ and integrators’ disappointment and frustration with these solutions. That said, no amount of technological advancement will completely erase the stigma of the “over-promise and under-deliver” days, which is why many integrators still haven’t completely embraced video analytics wholeheartedly.
“We’re definitely moving ahead with caution and finding good analytics partners that can stay with us and make sure we deliver a good product for our customers,” says Brent Edmunds, president of Stone Security, a systems integrator based in Salt Lake City. “We’ve shown a lot and we’ve piloted a lot, but to be honest, we still haven’t deployed a ton.”