Thursday, 22 March 2007

IBM's View on Video Surveillance Privacy

IBM is all set to venture into privacy concerns about video surveillance systems. IBM has been working on video surveillance that is targeted at the retail, banking and public sectors. The new tool is dubbed Smart Surveillance System.

IBM’s new tool will face tough competition from tools from Vidient, ObjectVideo and the like that have been in the market a long time.

The video surveillance market is escalating by the minute. The growth-rate is approximately 15 per cent annually, Joachim Stark, director of digital video surveillance with IBM's global services group said.

According to the company, the new tool sports features such as recording metadata, or information about the data in a video, such as colours and the size of objects in a frame. The software allows investigators pull up any image at a later stage if there is suspicion on a certain person’s behaviour.