Video Analytics Report
From Digital Communities:
A story on video analytics or smart cameras that appears largely based on a report by Dilip Sarangan, a research analyst for Frost & Sullivan. The report is titled Video Analytics: The Ground Reality. I haven’t read it and I missed the briefing on the report back in October. The story covers the basic uses and markets for smart cameras.
The story has a few interesting facts:
Some estimates put around 30 million video surveillance cameras in the United States, shooting four billion hours of footage each week.
The video surveillance industry has grown into a $160 billion global industry, especially after homeland security efforts after 9/11, where the federal government has poured money into video surveillance.
The New York City Police Department operates its own network of 3,000 cameras. Chicago has also received grant funds from the DHS and built a “Homeland Security Grid” of 2,250 cameras, with plans to add even more cameras in the coming years. Baltimore and New Orleans also have thousands of cameras throughout the cities.
Municipalities that deploy Wi-Fi networks can often utilize the infrastructure to greatly reduce the cost of deploying video cameras across a city. And emerging mobile video capabilities are going to play an increasing role for police and emergency responder.
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