Up until now, the security industry has been experiencing an overload of video information that sometimes is only useful in a reactive capacity for investigative and forensic purposes. Now, an opportunity has emerged to empower monitoring centers to leverage analytics and machine learning in a proactive position.
For instance, consider a warehouse where 10 or more cameras were installed several years ago, just passively recording video. Today, installation companies are capable of generating automatic video services by programming those cameras remotely, and monitoring those cameras at the monitoring center with these new services. These devices can be configured to ignore events that are not security-related, only sending alerts that represent likely intrusions, reducing nuisance alarms and increasing security effectiveness. Such smart video services are excellent new RMR generators with affordable costs for the monitoring center.