Public Safety Regulations and Video Surveillance

Governments’ Public Safety Held To Account

Public safety regulations for surveillance now hold governments to account for the cameras they buy and the results they deliver. Read about the British Standards and accreditation that apply to surveillance. After terrorist attacks, large amounts of extra money are spent by governments as a brief display of security control. Before Viseum’s disruptive technology, economics prevented governments from investing in fit-for-purpose video surveillance before such attacks.

Metropolitan Police officer's report on Viseum cameras (PDF)

Government Public Safety: Safe City Read the Metropolitan Police surveillance officer’s report

“To disrupt crime and terror, many nations are collaborating against this international threat using this internationally regulated disruptive technology.” (Viseum UK Group)

Disruptive Anti-Terror AI Surveillance Cameras are showing governments how to win their fight against crime and terror. Read how Viseum supports riot police tactics during violent disorder. Places where many people gather are targets for crime, disorder and mass killings. These areas have always been the most technically problematic places in which to deliver public safety. Video surveillance is always heavily relied upon during terrorist attacks. Because the video surveillance industry was not regulated, it had not delivered results.

Disruptive Public Safety AI Surveillance Technology

Solving the very serious problem of other surveillance cameras missing incidents, the Viseum Intelligent Moving Camera (Viseum IMC) was proven to deliver the results needed. Wide contextual view cameras, PTZ Cameras and Intelligent Video Analytics Software automatically monitor large, complex and challenging environments. In practice, the Viseum IMC is built to the highest quality standards. It does not need people to operate and it optimises people to respond. This proven Video Surveillance Innovation has led Viseum to pioneer new markets. It has solved the many problems with standalone video surveillance systems, manned surveillance services and manned guarding security patrols.

Police Training

This police training used 6 Viseum IMC cameras and Viseum’s Global F3 Software Technology Services. Over a single day the system processed images from the camera sites at scale. Only the records of consenting test subjects were displayed, and video of members of the public stayed encrypted and unviewed. Data and video were displayed of test subjects randomly merged into the crowds at each camera site. They were automatically identified and followed:

Public safety regulations and video surveillance: the three issues

The security industry has evolved around low-cost products that are not fit for purpose. Unregulated markets lack quality and standards. In today’s security climate, Viseum’s disruptive technology is needed to change how people spend, save and make money. Viseum UK has exposed the 3 main areas of the video surveillance industry that it is now helping to regulate:

1. AI Surveillance Cameras and Software “AI Surveillance Technology”

Public safety equipment faces so much competition that it forces surveillance manufacturers to reduce their quality and sell at low cost and in high volume, making their profits only from poor warranty and frequent downtimes. Also, with such an unregulated industry where selling in high volume is crucial, this discourages any technology innovation:

Surveillance Cameras

The Pan, Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) camera is a commodity component of the video surveillance industry. It is central to public safety. Criminals all but ignore PTZ Cameras other than Viseum’s. Those cameras need a person to watch and control them constantly, and even then each sees only one small area at a time. This makes those cameras the root cause of inconsistent security results.

Surveillance Software

The latest major AI surveillance technology development is Video Analytics Software. This is software that automatically watches cameras. This has limited applications because much video analytics software is written for indoor scenes and fixed cameras, so it cannot drive a moving camera across a wide outdoor area.

2. People Watching Cameras “Surveillance Operators”

Most people are under the common misunderstanding that video surveillance is just like the TV show “Big Brother”, with many highly skilled surveillance experts watching and studying our every move. This is very incorrect:

Public Safety Surveillance Designs

Public Safety surveillance designs other than Viseum’s have a very small number of people watching many thousands of cameras. However, in reality, a person can only look at one camera at a time. With wages an ongoing and increasing cost, operators are the most expensive operational overhead. This job has a high turnover of staff. No person can constantly monitor critical services without losing concentration. Round-the-clock monitoring is hard to staff and hard to concentrate on.

Public Safety Surveillance Budgets Wasted

Also, it is commonly accepted for governments and law enforcement agencies to waste many millions each year. Many thousands of man-hours are spent attempting to retrieve just a few seconds of crucial video evidence from days or months of stored video. These efforts result, daily, in lengthy reports as to why the video surveillance evidence was not available.

Operator reliability

Operators fail to arrive for work and lack concentration.

3. Government Security Procurement

Most governments budget for the best high-end security and surveillance products. But procurement processes that weigh purchase price above whole life cost often leave governments with equipment that underperforms.

Public safety budgets are often set against the lowest purchase price rather than the lowest cost of ownership, and the specification that follows reflects that. Specifications also tend to follow the manufacturers an adviser already knows.

Fisheye Security Camera

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Internationally Regulated Crime Deterrent

The much-needed solution for public safety law enforcement. The Viseum IMC Camera is now stimulating many governments to regulate their video surveillance. Viseum invented and brought to market the Viseum IMC Camera. This regulation matters because cameras that imitate the Viseum design may fail to meet the quality and performance a nation’s public safety depends on.

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