Community SafetyWatch, a Community Surveillance Programme

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“Potentially the largest safe and crime-free community network.” (New Scotland Yard)

Community SafetyWatch is a community surveillance programme that watches a whole area automatically, without invading privacy. Private residential communities can see our gated community security systems. A fully automated and multitasking security and surveillance service. It is endorsed by governments and local authorities, and funded by others. Some communities contribute through traffic fines and benefit from enhanced public safety, while others subscribe to being in a crime-free area and benefit from safer roads.

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

“This community service makes us all safer and stops privacy issues.” 

Run Community SafetyWatch in your country

  • Fear of crime and disorder gone. World’s safest roads. Businesses and lifestyles regenerated. Community spirit restored. A self-funded automated surveillance service for public spaces. It detects and reports incidents, and its protocols restrict viewing and recording to confirmed incidents.
  • Disruptive AI Surveillance Technology solving the many problems with manned surveillance, standalone unmonitored video surveillance and manned guarding security services.
  • Soon relied upon by everyone who uses and benefits from it. Creating a Trusted Premium Brand Alliance of well-known commodity service providers who either associate their brand to it or become suppliers of it.

It is Viseum’s own multi-billion dollar protected market, so that everyone can live and work safely and securely.

Community Safety Watch

Community SafetyWatch began in 2000, when our founder’s customers wanted to share cameras, because town centre video surveillance had pushed crime out into the suburbs. In 2003, supported by the head of the CCTV User Group, he met the Metropolitan Police and asked: if I build it, will you use it? The answer was yes. Read our founder’s story.

A proven community surveillance programme as a service

As international technology holders of the major step change in AI Surveillance Technology that enables this business model, Viseum delivers a proven community surveillance programme as a service. No other video surveillance camera covers such vast areas: Viseum cameras cover areas up to the size of 4 Olympic stadiums, to deliver this new multi-billion dollar market. We are now introducing community video surveillance, with privacy protection built in, as a service franchise.

Ruggedised Viseum Intelligent Moving Camera array on a heavy duty mount

Gigapixel Analytics 360° AI Surveillance Camera

The appearance of the Viseum Intelligent Moving Camera (Viseum IMC) operating automatically, protecting all surroundings, displays to would-be criminals that the entire community is constantly protected by many surveillance experts.

Viseum’s Government and Police Global Network

“Potentially the largest surveillance network in the world.”

This reflects feedback from Viseum’s established working relationships with law enforcement agencies. Police forces and local authorities in several countries have supported Viseum Community SafetyWatch initiatives in their public space areas.

Community surveillance scheme: Viseum Community SafetyWatch

Viseum Community SafetyWatch and UK CCTV User Group

Many communities throughout the world are already wasting millions trying to fight crime with inferior video surveillance systems. Equally, they live in areas that are the most technically problematic to deliver security. Governments struggle to protect just a few city centre hotspots, and even this places the greatest strain on resources. Everyone needs a dependable solution to protect our growing population. In practice, communities are using Viseum’s unique automated AI surveillance technology to deliver this themselves.

Viseum UK’s Public Body Endorsements

“A self-funded, organically grown and privacy-conscious surveillance service. This is truly innovative.” (UK Government, offering Viseum its largest financial Smart Award)

“This security success is very important to London, the United Kingdom and indeed the rest of the world.” (London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime)

Where the concept began

The concept was created in the year 2000 with the Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent at Bexleyheath Police Station. Communities that run the programme can prevent local authorities from implementing standard video surveillance and snooping on them.

Self-Funded Security

With such highly competitive markets for commodity services growing significantly year-on-year, an increasing number of select service providers are becoming members of the Viseum Certified Trusted Premium Brand Alliance to fund pilot installations and to sell their services alongside or as a bundle with this unique security service. It’s just like paying for a mobile phone, TV and broadband. But now commodity services and feeling safe can be all part of the same bundle:

  • Telecommunications and Multimedia Services (broadband, TV, telephone and mobile phone): are now including neighbourhood, retail and industrial park security, as part of their bundled services.
  • Utilities (gas, electricity, water): are now winning new customers more easily and keeping them for longer.
  • Insurance Premiums (buildings, contents, vehicles): receive fewer claims (real and fraudulent), making their subscriptions easier to sell and retain.
  • Construction Companies (new homes, offices, industrial and retail parks): are finding it easier to win major building projects by including this service as a project deliverable.

These are the projected five-year and ongoing annual revenues from 2 successful franchise applications. These do not include additional revenues from associate members of this Trusted Premium Brand Alliance:

These are the projected 5-year and ongoing revenues from a successful franchise applicant, including their role as an intermediary for associate members of this Trusted Premium Brand Alliance:

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Viseum Community SafetyWatch Brochure

Note: These numbers are from Western economies. Please contact Viseum for revenue amounts for your region.

How to Start

Communities: Complete the online application form. Also, once it is installed, neighbouring communities commonly ask for the same cover. They say, “If they are having this video surveillance then we must have it too”. This also encourages the growth of the service footprint. More service providers want to associate with it and fund more installations.

Trusted Premium Brand Alliance Members: Complete the online application form. For a service provider to become an Associate or Supply Member of this service alliance, they will need a compelling business proposal.

Communities Control Privacy and Big Brother

Communities have seen Viseum Community SafetyWatch as a way to control their own security. They can choose privacy-respecting surveillance with their local authority. This is the central Viseum Technology breakthrough: how it overcomes privacy issues to automate surveillance, improve security and prevent people from watching over other people.

Laying to rest privacy concerns and delighting communities. The cameras’ built-in software means the recordings of people’s activity can be based on behaviour and location. Not how people look. The camera protocols can only allow the viewing and recording of images when a crime is actually underway.

What happens after you contact Viseum

Firstly

A specialist reads your project questionnaire for a commercial review and checks it against projects we have already delivered.

Secondly

We arrange a live demonstration, either online from your own desk or on your site with a Rapid Deployment trailer.