Can a high-tech, high-cost video surveillance system be wasted on its monitors?
Can a high-tech, high-cost video surveillance system be wasted on its monitors? The human rate of activity detection on video is only between 7 and 15 percent, according to James White, President and CEO of JL White & Associates, a contracting company which assists in military deployments and securing overseas military bases. “Our eyes are really not designed to stay alert and detect activity over a long period of time,” White says. “Twenty minutes of staring at video monitors, and detection rates drop.”
White helped to install a sophisticated video analytics system at a military base in Afghanistan. Complex video surveillance systems come with unique problem sets, and the base’s goals were to deploy a system that could offer an 85-percent detection rate and a less than two-percent false positive rate. White worked with HP to develop a unique system for the base, building programming within the analytics software to set up target size, shape and texture for alerts.