Intelligent Moving Cameras

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The Viseum IMC Solution

Random unpredictable crimes and anti-social behaviour usually happen where cameras are not pointing, yet evidence needed to deter and clear them up is only caught if the camera is pointing close-up wherever it occurs. No matter how many cameras are installed in suburban open space, they will be pointing or touring the wrong way unless camera operators are watching at the right times and controlling them in the right directions.

How Viseum IMCs Work

Viseum IMC is an intelligent moving camera CCTV system. It works with a patented multiple camera unit to see everything at once, and intelligently moves a Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ) camera to zoom into, follow and record specific activity. It is well proven to capture crucial evidence that would have otherwise been missed, by providing greater coverage than multiple fixed camera installations, and better performance than intermittently manned moving cameras. In short, Viseum IMC technology is making CCTV surveillance less complex, more effective and at the same time more affordable.

Viseum IMC USP's

• Viseum IMCs are well proven to provide up to 25 times more court quality evidence.
  Statistics say current methods capture only 4% of crime. Viseum IMCs have proven to capture up to 100% where random unpredictable crimes occur
• Protects 48,600 square metres of open space per single installation with or without an operator.
  Suspect recognition evidence up to 124.4 metres suspect identification up to 61.6 metres
• Extended Dual Evidence functionality will produce not only the close up evidence of the crime but the lead up to it and the aftermath.
  Wide view and close-up recordings of the same event - as recommended by UK Home Office
• Multiple Attack Controlled PTZ Switching providing close up evidence even if several events occur at the same time.
  Remembers and predicts activity to enable accurate PTZ switching between any number of expected multiple events, no matter if they speed up, slow down, or change direction
• Moving camera is consistently seen to be reacting intelligently to provide long term deterrent.
  Proven to deter criminals from planning their crimes
• Sees and records everything at once at extreme distance and in every direction and at the same time.
  Effective evidence gathering is no longer as problematic as it used to be

Viseum IMC Key Benefits

• Each IMC installation frees your key staff to focus more attention on other security issues e.g. hot spot/high activity/RIPA and revenue cameras.
  Progressively creating greater performance for your entire CCTV network and making CCTV operators more productive and better motivated than ever before
• The single up-front cost per camera site is less than two-thirds of the yearly costs of just one additional member of staff.
  Ongoing savings mean investment will be recovered in a shorter period of time and provide life-time savings thereafter
• The enhanced crime clear up performance at your remote sites will reduce the burden of ongoing cost and fear of crime.
  Less crime to deal with and your communities feel safer

Viseum IMC Architecture

Auto-intelligent Camera Unit (AiCU) includes:

• Up to 8 high resolution cameras in one unit - extended dual evidence of any incident:
• Up to 7 fixed high resolution cameras for up to 360 degrees coverage - detection and overview evidence
• 1 x high resolution Pan, Tilt and Zoom camera - close-up evidence

Auto-intelligent Surveillance Unit (AiSU) includes:

• High Performance Dual Core Computer
• Virtual Operator Assistant (VOA) Software for intelligent camera control
• Optional Auto-intelligent Digital Video Recorder (AiDVR) Software + HDD’s for local video storage
• Alternatively all cables can be fed into any other DVR and patched though to the AiSU

Communications

Viseum's communication system is highly secure providing either proactive event alerts or passive video retrieval. It uses many modern digital technologies available today for secure, easy-to-use and cost-effective local or remote communication.

Viseum-driven camera installations will enable analogue cameras to become digitalised and benefit from secure IP communications freedom. This can provide a remote managed service direct from Viseum (typically over 3G) and will encourage the following:

• Remote commissioning services - direct from Viseum
• Use of remotely managed automated watchdog services e.g. local traffic statistics, hardware status/diagnostic reports and surveillance profile schedule recommendations
• Use of extended dual evidence from the Viseum’s multiple cameras recorded locally
• Resilient local video storage back-up capability
• Greater sharing of security resources with neighbouring authorities

Remote Standalone Viseum IMC CCTV

If you want the best available CCTV for your organisation or if you are just looking for the most cost effective solution to cover all your areas, Viseum IMCs are a powerful option for standalone suburban open space surveillance.

Simple local installations at the camera site, without costly 24/7/365 remote monitoring services, Viseum-driven IMCs provide more coverage than multiple fixed camera installations, and better performance than intermittently manned moving cameras. For many environments Viseum IMCs provide a greater level of crime clear up and long term deterrent than any other solution.

Before Viseum

Random unpredictable crimes and anti-social behaviour usually happened where cameras were not pointing, yet evidence needed to deter and clear them up could only get caught if the camera was pointing close-up wherever it occurred.

The number of fixed cameras needed to cover everywhere was not economic, so fixed cameras were positioned to cover only strategic places. As a result evidence would often be missed or distant events would not be recorded with any quality.

No matter how many moving cameras were installed, they were be pointing or touring the wrong way when incidents occurred.

Now we have Viseum

Viseum IMCs can be used as standalone CCTV systems to protect remote sites more effectively. The whole area within line of sight around each Viseum-driven IMC is simultaneously covered to capture close-up evidence.

Viseum IMCs can be managed remotely, using an entry level broadband service or a mobile phone network, or locally and is even more cost effective over a secure wireless connection.

Using Viseum's technology in this way enables organisations to look after more sites without the need to provide additional staffing.

For environments that encounter irregular crime activity, Viseum IMCs are the most effective and cost efficient CCTV surveillance systems available to clear up and stamp out crime and antisocial behaviour.

SafetyWatch Re-Deployable AiSU

This unique remote surveillance product combines many advanced hardware and software systems to work as one harmonised unit; to provide the world's most effective CCTV protection for areas that generate random crimes.

A Robust and Benefit-rich Surveillance Tool

Combating new crime and youth disorder hot spots whenever and wherever they appear, the SafetyWatch Re-Deployable system is well proven to automatically capture court-quality evidence that is likely to be missed with existing methods, and crucial evidence even from further away than the naked eye can easily detect.

Viseum's disciplined automation consistently monitors any given area day and night, without needing to rely on preset tours and with the confidence of seeing and recording all directions at the same time. Viseum's Virtual Operator Assistant (VOA) software, driving the SafetyWatch Re-Deployable IMC, can be told to look for different activity at different times of the day or week. Certain environments benefit from proactive alert response, and all environments benefit from positive video retrieval.

Viseum's VOA will improve productivity of mobile observation staff, enabling them to protect more open spaces where random crimes occur. This removes considerable ongoing operational expenses along with the associated management issues. For confidence in catching crimes and to fully exploit the long term deterrent effect, moving cameras automatically driven continuously 24/7/365 by Viseum technology provide an advanced option when choosing redeployable surveillance systems.

Easy to Setup and Use

• Programmable Event-focused Zoning of Specific Areas ~ any number of privacy and/or ignore zones, 3 levels of guarded/sensitive areas for alert response or video interrogation priority
• Surveillance Profile Scheduling ~ surveillance profiles are easily selected from a drop down menu. Any number of different profiles can be set for different times of the day over a seven day period

Superior Evidence

• Extended Dual Evidence ~ optical zoom level for court-quality evidence, watermarked and time stamped matched to the wide overview of not only the crime but the lead-up to it and the aftermath
• Multiple Attacks ~ remembers and predicts movements to enable accurate PTZ switching between any number of predicted multiple events no matter if objects speed up, slow down or change direction
• Extreme Range ~ pixel level detection for highly accurate event analysis and PTZ camera control

Advanced Software Systems

Automated surveillance systems (Virtual Operator Assistant "VOA" Software)

Detection System

Automatically learns its environments to permit effective monitoring night and day in all types of weather. It ignores movement such as trees and bushes blowing in the wind. With standard street lighting. Viseum's coverage by any 360 degree IMC model for automated gathering of identification evidence is 8,000 square metres and for recognition evidence the coverage is 20,000 square metres.

PTZ Camera Control

The particular activities you are looking for automatically controls the PTZ camera to follow it with high accuracy.

Surveillance Platform

Viseum's detection and behavioural recognition capabilities provide the ideal platform to meet surveillance requirements for populated or unpopulated open areas that generate random crime. The Viseum VOA measures and compares various parameters relating to the basic laws of physics, such as size, shape, speed, time, and location, and then applies decision rules based on local knowledge of the environment to recognize particular types of behaviour.

Surveillance Profile Scheduling

Viseum technology is based on the study of objects in real time environments. Using Viseum's surveillance platform, a library of standard surveillance profiles are produced to fit the majority of real life environments, and where necessary bespoke profiles are produced. Viseum's surveillance profiles are easily selected from a drop down menu. Any number of different profiles can be set for different times of the day over a seven day period.

Optical Zooming System

The key feature of the Viseum system is its ability to automatically meet the Home Office's Guidelines on the zoom levels required for court evidence. The Viseum system's method of selecting the appropriate zoom level is easily adjusted to meet particular application and/or individual user requirements.

Interactive surveillance systems

Live Video Streaming

Viseum's bandwidth/video quality management system to view all 8 cameras at once or individually.

Manual Surveillance Override

Viseum's "point and go" functionality, the Viseum GUI's PTZ camera control dial or integration with your CCTV Control Room.

Proactive Event Alerts

No matter where you are, Viseum's audio alert system will make you aware of the activity you are looking for in the precise area you are looking for it.

Viseum Auto-intelligent Digital Video Recorder (AiDVR)

Optimised to be used remotely via entry level wireless or wired broadband services.

Storage

• Standard 1.3 Terabytes ~ suitable for storing for 31 days
• Statistics generated to validate hard drive capacity ~ determine image quality and frame rates to suit desired storage period

Interrogation

• Colour coded single event thumbnail presentation ~ rapid event scanning
• Activity graphs allow rapid remote post-incident analysis ~ one-touch event navigation
• Bookmarks ~ for rapid remote awareness and retrieval of events

Playback

Video quality and format can be adjusted for play back to suit user preference and download speed:

• Video Format = ASF, SWF, MPG, AVI
• Video Quality = 50, 100, 200 K/bits

System Technical Data

Hardware Systems

Reliable electrical operation when exposed to extreme environments.

Processor Engine

Advanced Intel core processing a 100% work load on a 24/7/365 duty cycle. Optimised for industrial high use multi-tasking routines, including video analytics, video storage, machine-to-machine control and multiple client communication/management.

Video Storage System

2 x Industry leading Western Digital 750 GB SATA hard drives. Each disk incorporates a park feature which separates the heads for safe transportation, and fitted with comprehensive event logging to keep track of how they are treated during operation.

Multiple Camera Array Control System

Up to 7 fixed high resolution wide angle detection/contextual cameras and one high resolution fully functional PTZ dome close-up camera.

3G Communications System

Wireless TCP/IP WAN cellular router/gateway and VPN appliance providing secure high-speed wireless connectivity to remote Viseum installations.

Power System

Unique design supplying power to 7 hardware systems from one power source and within the AiSU.

Temperature Control System

IP54 environmental enclosure with efficient fan assisted air flow/heat dissipation management. Ensures optimum life expectancy for all components and maximum resilience against loss of service. Thermostat controlled internal temperature regulation to allow operation within +40C and – 10C ambient temperature . In high temperatures heat dissipates through the environment and in low temperatures the enclosure will self heat.

Administration Systems

Optimised to be used remotely, the Viseum re-deployable AiSU uses industry leading authentication, audit trail and communications security features to ensure the integrity of the evidence gathered.

Recording

Each JPG frame is time stamped, watermarked, encrypted and authenticated.

Archived Video Interrogation

Colour coded event thumbnail presentation and activity graphs allow rapid remote post-incident analysis ~ one-touch event navigation.

Audit Trail

Comprehensive audit trail with user activity logs.

Single or Group User Administration

Each user or groups of users can be given different permissions to administer and use the Viseum system, and the Visuem GUI will automatically adapt its presentation to match.

Remote or Local Site Commissioning

Single movement (tilt) of reference cameras to set coverage required. Simple 'point and click' GUI based calibration.

Data Protection System

Advanced encryption system ensures that in the unlikely event of the video storage hard drives being stolen, the images cannot be viewed by any unauthorised Viseum users.

IP Communication Systems

Enabling the industry leading high specification analogue cameras to benefit from secure IP communications freedom

Industry Leading Security

Firewall, VPN and/or HTTPS, or HTTP.

Local & Remote IP TX/RX

Hard wired Ethernet, and/or Wireless 802.11a/b or g, and/or 3G.

Physical Data

Designed to meet the demanding needs of exposed and temporary environments

Health and Safety Features

Quick release weatherproof speed-fixers for easy mountable/demountable operation.

Re-deployable AiSU & Camera Unit can be mounted on opposite sides to centralise weight & reduce cantilever effect.

Weatherproof connectors on base of box for hard-wired connection.

Internally filtered and fused mains to the PC Systems.

Camera Connections

Up to 8 camera inputs PAL100 FPS total (all 8 camera inputs enabled default = 4 FPS each camera), resolution up to 768x576. Interfaces with all models of Viseum-driven Camera Units via quick connection weatherproof plug/sockets.

PTZ Communications

4 wire telemetry to camera & 2 or 4 wire if integrated with CCTV control room - RS845/RS422. Protocols - Forward Vision, JVC, Panasonic, (others on request).

Physical

Aluminium environmental enclosure

• Weight 10.7 Kg
• Height 41 cm x Width 27 cm x Depth 26 cm (excluding cables and fan protrusion)
• 240V AC @ 50Hz with maximum current of 2.8A