Is Crime Prevention the future of surveillance? Police technology experts state that surveillance and data collection will be an integral part in crime prevention. “This is the future of policing,” says Christopher Schneider, an associate professor of sociology at Brandon University in Manitoba. Moving forward, police authority will use...
Earlier we've talked about how security companies are using Virtual reality to improve video surveillance. In 2011, VRLab developed a surveillance and security system based on Advanced Virtual Reality Devices. According to VRLab, the system was designed around 3 main components: data acquisition, information analysis, and quick info-access...
With the Oculus Rift being recently released, and the Samsung Gear VR giving anyone with a Galaxy phone access to VR goggles, virtual reality has made a huge comeback in the last few years. Since people are currently more focused on VR's gaming applications, VR in video...
About 2 years ago we discussed the future of video surveillance, where Martin Gren - the co-founder of the Swedish IP Camera manufacturer Axis Communications - offered an interesting list of trends that showed where the technology of video surveillance was headed, including the strides...
If you're using your IP camera as a monitoring tool that's saving videos (or images) when motion takes place, then you will want to spend some time adjusting your camera's motion detection settings. This means ensuring the available settings are optimized for the particular scene...
IP cameras are taking off. Just look at the stats of projected growth. With this comes some major risks. Do you know where your camera is coming from and how secure it is? Take this creepy example where a couple were using a Foscam camera to...
... well we knew that already of course, and in fact, using a webcam for video monitoring wouldn't make many people's Top 10 webcam uses. Of course we're trying to change that with Camcloud, but one step at at time. For now, check this out. Very...
