Swift, user-friendly analysis and transmission of video recordings is a core benefit of cloud-based surveillance and security, especially at a time of increased threats to critical infrastructure. But leading vendors are now using large vision models to support AI features that enhance safety in other ways.
“AI-enabled face recognition can verify the identity of whoever is at that substation,” Pugliese says. “Using Verkada’s person-of-interest alerts, we can also upload a picture of a person that we may not want at a certain location, and the system notifies us if that person is there.”
The feature has already come in handy for VEC. “Just last year, someone kept showing up at a certain office who wasn’t supposed to be there,” Ryan says. “We added them to the person-of-interest tool, and it alerted dispatch the next time they showed up.”
3. Environmental Monitoring Protects Evidence and Other Assets
Bad actors and noncompliance aren’t the only threats to physical security. In San Luis Obispo, temperature and humidity are also potential culprits.
“Five years ago, an evidence refrigerator malfunctioned, and, because it was in a long-term storage area, we went for about a week before we caught it,” Pfarr says. “A lot of evidence was lost as a result of that, and some cases had to be dismissed.”
Today, the San Luis Obispo Police Department uses Verkada environmental sensors to ensure that optimal conditions are maintained for evidence storage.
“Three weeks ago, we got an alarm that the temperature was declining,” Pfarr says. “We got down there and, sure enough, we had a refrigerant leak in our pump. We had a huge walk-in cooler that we would have lost without the alarm.”
PROTECT: Municipalities use sensors to enhance public safety in entertainment districts.
Because these sensors transmit data into a central, cloud-based system, the department’s end users can easily configure and receive real-time notifications. Evidence that helps solve crimes and make cities safer is monitored and protected 24/7/365 from environmental harm.
Digital air quality monitors, carbon monoxide detectors and audio analysis sensors can also provide physical protection from ambient threats. Paired with surveillance, access control and AI features such as face recognition, utilities, law enforcement and other entities that serve the public are closer than ever to having a single-pane-of-glass experience for physical security.
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