Video surveillance is one of the fastest growing segments in the physical security industry. In the prevailing security environment, the need for video surveillance is growing exponentially. From smart cities to stadiums, from retail mega-markets to homes, video surveillance has become a pervasive phenomenon. Several petabytes of video data are being generated globally every year from this growing number of video surveillance installations.
However, a large amount of video which is captured is never analyzed for actionable intelligence and, in many cases, a large team of human operators is required to monitor the video feeds. As video archives grow in size and quality, traditional storage and analysis methods are found to be high cost and do not support timely analysis and action. In many environments, video feeds are required to be stored for durations ranging from months to years for compliance purposes, adding to the lifecycle costs of video surveillance solutions. Standalone video surveillance solutions are, therefore, not truly efficient or optimized for cost and need to be augmented with physical security staff.