Prescient Group, LCC is getting ready to release iSentry, an artificially intelligent video surveillance system. This system could be of particular interest to homeland security, the hospitality sector, defense, energy facilities, and other general businesses. What makes this system special is that it learns normal activities that occur within the video camera's scope. The system displays a black screen until unusual activity occurs. Then depending on parameters set by the system operator, different actions may take place, such as email notification or system lock down. This system is currently able to filter out 95% of normal activity.
According to Prescient's co-founders there are five things that set iSentry apart from most other systems available:
1. It can detect unusual activity.
2. iSentry has multiple camera capabilities. Multiple cameras allow the controller to shift priorities without missing other important activities.
3. iSentry has active pan, tilt, and zoom features. This allows the cameras to automatically track suspicious targets, providing more detailed information.
4. The system has a long memory archive. The cameras use a low resolution which ends up conserving 90% of disc space.
5. iSentry has accurate outdoor detection. It can can pick-up small motion in an outdoor area, in all kinds of weather.
Prescient is currently working with NYC to use this system in traffic monitoring, i.e. in tunnels. The uses for iSentry are vast.
Source: "Prescient Group, LLC To Introduce iSentry, Groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence Video Surveillance Technology, at 15th World Congress of Intelligent Transport Systems Meeting." MarketWatch. 18 Nov. 2008. Retreived on 25 Nov. 2008.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Prescient-Group-LLC-To-Introduce/story.aspx?guid=%7B7839A171-D4FB-4100-8A2F-8D4AB3D98B28%7D
3 comments:
this looks really cool. wonder if I could leave the kids at the house by themselves and have the system notify me if they are getting into trouble, danger, etc.
As long as given privacy laws are in use and enforcable I see this could be a good thing in the business and government sector. Misuse seems pretty easy.
And while I do agree with your other commentor that it would have some advantageous private sector uses I don't think it would go so far as to be able to leave children home alone. I am positive he was kidding on that one.
brilliant. the most interesting things about this system to me are a) that it works with low-res images so disk space and usage is kept to a minimum and b) that it can figure out what "unusual activity" is rather reliably.
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