IBM Unveils New Digital Video Surveillance Service

IBM Unveils New Digital Video Surveillance Service

IBM (NYSE: IBM), a leading provider of global security services, today announced the immediate availability of a new advanced digital video surveillance (DVS) service. The launch of IBM’s latest DVS service marks an important shift in the industry’s approach to security, applying advanced analytics to video data and signaling the ability to converge physical and information technology (IT) security.

Key to IBM’s DVS service is a first-of-a-kind innovation in video analytics which was developed by IBM researchers over the past several years. The new DVS service, called the IBM Smart Surveillance Solution, builds in the research team’s advanced analytics capabilities which are designed to enable real-time decision-making and post-event correlation of people and activities.

The IBM Smart Surveillance Solution is designed to provide the unique capability to carry out efficient data analysis of video sequences either in real time or from recordings. Based on open standards-based middleware, the software platform is designed to allow monitoring and analysis of real-world events via multiple sensors, including video cameras, radar, or audio inputs.

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