IP Surveillance Camera Systems

Solving today’s IP surveillance camera security challenges using Viseum’s PTZ network camera

The Viseum IP surveillance camera detects activity in all directions and drives a PTZ network camera to follow it. Until now, wide-area IP surveillance security has always been the most technically problematic to deliver. It has also placed the greatest strain on resources to support. These networked cameras needed an operator to watch them and point them the right way.

Security organisations spend millions each year on this problem. Many keep large permanent teams. They search days or months of video for a few seconds of crucial evidence. Most of that work ends in a report on why the evidence could not be used. Usually the incident was too far from the camera. Or it was missed because the PTZ network camera was pointing the wrong way.

Intelligent Surveillance – Standalone or Centrally Controlled

Why manned PTZ cameras failed

PTZ Camera installations must be controlled and monitored by surveillance operators to point them in the right direction.

Security organisations around the world spend millions each year, many with large numbers of permanent staff, trying to collect suitable IP surveillance images, searching through days or even months of video for just a few seconds of crucial evidence.

Criminals are always deterred where cameras perform as if “manned” and once they see Viseum’s overt IP surveillance camera model follow them they believe a proactive human operator has already spotted them. It is better than any other crime reduction initiative. The only exception is resident security staff who are constantly on alert.

Best value IP camera

A Metropolitan Police surveillance officer reported the comparison. You would need 6 constantly manned next best PTZ cameras, or 10 of the industry’s latest panoramic megapixel cameras, or 200 standard fixed camera installations. One Viseum outdoor camera matches all of that, with no operator and no monitoring network.

The best long-term deterrent

Criminals are deterred where a camera behaves as if it is manned. When the Viseum camera visibly follows them, they believe an operator has already spotted them. This deters crime better than any other measure, short of security staff on site at all times.