Viseum AI Surveillance Video Monitoring Software Olympics video surveillance that secured a global event
Olympics video surveillance has to work on the opening day, not after a year of tuning. Viseum protected the London Olympic Park during construction and sponsored the security for the River Thames Torch Relay. Governments planning a major event can study a project that already delivered under real pressure.
Global F3 Find, Fix and Follow
One suspect, from a plate read in a city to detention at a border. Each step is found, fixed and followed, and a person confirms before anyone acts.
Following one person through standard and Viseum IMC cameras
A Viseum IMC camera picks one person out of a crowd and follows them from camera to camera, beside a fixed standard camera that cannot.
“Our Best Security” (Olympics video surveillance)
Event security teams face a hard limit. They cannot hire an operator for every camera. Our cameras find the incident themselves, zoom in, and only then call a human. In short, a small team keeps watch over a very large site.
Olympics Security Cameras
World’s Best security software and surveillance cameras: they protected the London Olympic Park
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The appearance of the Viseum 360 Security Camera, operating automatically and protecting all its surroundings, shows criminals that the entire Olympics site is constantly watched by many surveillance experts.
Olympic Park Construction
Viseum AI Situational Awareness Trailers formed a virtual fence that protected the construction of London’s Olympic Park. Our Security and Surveillance Product Solutions met the quality compliance requirements for this event. Viseum UK AI situational awareness solutions receive many public body endorsements. They deliver reassuring security to all, from the general public to the most important people and assets throughout the world.
Olympic Torch Relay: The Viseum UK Group also sponsored the Olympics security for London’s River Thames Olympic Torch Relay. Olympics security challenges for the London Olympic Torch Relay event demanded effective 360 security and surveillance camera coverage. The event lacked the necessary communications and power infrastructure to support conventional video surveillance. Our Rapid Deployment Video Surveillance System was the perfect solution.
“The risk and potential adverse impact of any mishandled incident was simply too high. This made Viseum the only security solution we could trust.” (London Olympics Video Surveillance Event Security Manager)
Every surveillance camera installation we deliver follows one internationally regulated process. First, we survey the site and agree measurable security goals.
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One Viseum camera does the work of 6 constantly manned cameras, a Metropolitan Police surveillance officer reported.
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Our rapid deployment surveillance trailer delivers automated, high security situational awareness wherever it is positioned, and reports incidents itself for a rapid response and investigations.
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What governments gain from Olympics Surveillance
Major events expose thin camera cover and thin staffing. Viseum answers both problems with one unit on one mast.
- 360 degree cover of a whole venue, perimeter or construction site.
- Automatic detection, so no operator has to spot the incident first.
- Close-up evidence of the moments before an alarm, ready for court.
- Deployment in hours on a trailer, with no trenching and no fixed network.
- Handover to the permanent Video Management System after the event.
Rapid deployment where there is no power or network
The Torch Relay route had no cabling and no mains supply along the river. Our Rapid Deployment trailers solved that problem on their own power and their own communications link. The organisers gained full camera cover on a route that conventional surveillance simply could not reach.
Major event security
Major events expose every weakness in a security plan. This approach reflects established practice in major event management.
We test the communications and power at each position, so that each trailer reports to your control room.
Operators can fail to arrive for work or lose concentration. Until now, the PTZ camera has been the only practical conventional surveillance camera that captures what is needed to react in emergencies or produce evidence to convict.
Proving the result to ministers and auditors
Every automatic detection carries a timestamp. An event commander can report exactly what the system caught and how fast officers responded. Governments also reuse the same equipment long after the closing ceremony, which spreads the cost across many years and many sites.
Planning your own Olympics surveillance requirement
In practice most event teams start with a map and a headcount. Firstly they mark the crowd routes, the perimeter and the assets that cannot be left unwatched. Secondly they count the operators they can realistically fund. The camera plan has to match the staffing plan, not the other way round.
Meanwhile our engineers survey the site and model the cover that each mast position delivers. You see the gaps before anything is ordered.
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Olympics Video Surveillance Technology
The well-known TV show, ‘Big Brother’, has helped people think that video surveillance is extremely intrusive. Each and every camera on the show is constantly monitored by a dedicated surveillance specialist. Real surveillance does not work like that. Only a small handful of people watch hundreds, or even thousands, of surveillance cameras at any one time.
The security of an entire site is designed around having a small handful of people watching many thousands of cameras. A person can only look at one camera at a time. They are the most expensive operational overhead, with wages an ongoing and increasing cost. This job has a high turnover of staff, and no operator can stay fully alert on critical services for a whole shift. Equally, round-the-clock monitoring is hard to staff and hard to concentrate on. It is commonly accepted for security organisations to waste millions of dollars each year. Many thousands of man-hours go into attempting to find and retrieve just a few seconds of crucial video evidence from days or months of stored video footage. In practice, these efforts result, daily, in lengthy reports on why the video was not available or could not be used.
Yet it’s still the case for events such as the Olympics and the Football World Cup that the pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) camera is commonly used by the remote surveillance operator to protect people and assets in open space areas. This is changing, and the change is bad news for criminals and good news for the public. Many PTZ Camera installations around the world are now being transformed from reactive infrastructure-dependent surveillance, to active independent security assets. This is being achieved by using Viseum UK’s proven surveillance technology. These are the only PTZ Camera installations in the world to optimise the key human element of surveillance by providing greater coverage from fewer PTZ camera installations, collecting more close-up evidence without any operators being present.
There are many reasons why Viseum’s technology was developed. Its camera solutions have grown in popularity, even through international economic downturns. The key benefit of this technology is intelligently automated Video Monitoring local to the PTZ Camera. It doesn’t depend on anything else to protect the remote site.
Today’s AI surveillance technology
A security consultant will still commonly specify PTZ Cameras for open space video monitoring. It is known, though, that these need to be constantly controlled and watched to deliver results. This is because, until now, this has been the only practical conventional surveillance camera device. It can capture information to react in emergencies or produce evidence needed to convict. At the other extreme, too much data is being presented to operators. The standard HD or megapixel camera hasn’t been able to compete. Its limited coverage, massive transmission bandwidth and storage capacity are the problems.
This means that less than 1% of the current monitored and unmonitored surveillance installations deliver results. In the current financial climate, the high-security conscious end user is taking a much harder look at getting greater value. Buyers are spending much more wisely. Very few are purchasing the lowest priced solutions. Indeed, the majority are investing in security innovation. This is the cause of many large security industry ‘box shifters’ now going out of business.
Today’s manned guarding services
Ongoing costs must fall while service levels rise. The manned guarding security industry is looking to use technology to replace its people. With current technology, it’s not surprising that until Viseum many users have been reluctant to do this. Large secured wide areas do not benefit from their guards’ monitoring cameras. They are unable to capture close-up video of the actual moment the site was damaged and goods were stolen. Events like this usually happen within just a few carefully planned seconds. Standard Video Surveillance rarely captures quality images identifying criminals committing the crime. Even when they are not wearing masks, the video is rarely conclusive enough to secure a conviction. Everyone knows that when standard video surveillance systems have achieved this, it is an extraordinary event that makes headline news!
Enter the Viseum Intelligent 360 AI Surveillance Camera
All these are legacy issues, which, thanks to Viseum 360 AI surveillance, have now simply gone away. The problems concerning Video Monitoring coverage, surveillance staff availability or fatigue, video image transmission, video storage, and even concerns around privacy, have all vanished with the Viseum Intelligent 360 AI Surveillance Camera. Its technical performance and reliability are giving high-security conscious people the confidence to start benefiting from electronic security together with an enhanced level of security service.
Just like the Olympics video surveillance monitoring, other high-profile events can now all use this type of technology as a matter of course. The many other events that take place around the world can now upgrade their PTZ Cameras so their monitoring systems benefit from this latest best-in-class innovation.
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Viseum Olympics Security Technology for Public Safety
World’s Best AI Surveillance Camera for Olympics Security
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The Viseum Olympics Security Camera protects all its surroundings automatically. Its appearance shows criminals that the entire Olympics site is watched by many surveillance experts.
Police and law enforcement agencies use the Viseum UK AI Situational Awareness system. It addresses the serious security challenges of public events such as the Olympic Games. Viseum helps deliver a stronger Olympics security service. Its AI Situational Awareness software and video surveillance cameras have proven ability. That record makes Viseum services attractive to anyone responsible for security at a public event.
Literally millions of people attend the Olympic Games, which require a massive security operation. Many thousands of police officers are on duty at peak periods of the Olympic Games. Many thousands of troops and extra security guards join them. The costs come from the multi-billion dollar Olympics budget.
Viseum UK sponsored the Olympics video surveillance and security for London’s River Thames Olympic Torch Relay
Stuart Thompson, President of the Viseum UK Group and CEO of Viseum International Limited, said, “Thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars go into Video Monitoring every year. Official reports suggest that around 90% of standard PTZ Camera footage is ‘unusable as evidence’. The relevant footage is often minimal or out of focus. Sometimes the incident happened out of sight of the camera. Clients using Viseum report a different result. Four Viseum security cameras operating independently can outperform 20 manually operated PTZ Cameras, each of which needs its own operator. That operator must watch and control it to catch crime.”
Low running costs coupled with autonomous operation also make video surveillance feasible again for the wider community. For example, Viseum has been at the forefront of Community SafetyWatch. This international community regeneration service should save many billions for each nation. The saving comes from lower costs of crime and antisocial disorder.
The problems with PTZ Cameras are endless. They are still commonly used to protect public events. Until recently the PTZ camera was the only conventional surveillance camera able to capture information for emergency response. It was also the only one able to produce evidence needed to convict. Viseum has developed AI Situational Awareness software and a PTZ camera system. Together they remove the drawbacks of the PTZ camera. Our philosophy is based around making AI surveillance camera installations more effective through AI Situational Awareness. The costs of Video Monitoring at major international events without our built-in intelligence are astronomical.
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