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Avocado Security has announced the availability of its Version 2.0 Security & Business Intelligence Optimization Platform, what company officials characterize as “a combined security and BI” product.

 

The product delivers BI with security images by taking the video images from surveillance cameras and translating them into intelligent, usable, business data and statistics, company officials say.

 

“Our technology automates the way we look at millions of security images,” said Kevin Shahbazi, CEO of Avocado Security. “We translate security camera footage into meaningful information, including graphs, charts, and BI.”

 

So now, instead of security personnel just seeing “dumb data” from numerous images across video monitors, they can view “intelligent data,” Shahbazi says, “so that actionable, real-time security decisions can be made.”

 

The technology can convert video images from the existing security equipment that comes from one vendor, or from multiple equipment vendors, such as GE, Honeywell, Bosch or Siemens (News - Alert), and translate those images into such usable data as the number of times an elevator door opened, or a high level of traffic at a particular entrance or exit, or, if more traffic is at the loading dock of a hotel than at the front entrance lobby.

 

Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) says that, by 2010, video surveillance cameras will be a $4.09 billion market. However, cameras are forever being misaligned or pointed in the wrong direction, producing fuzzy imaging and blobs in the video footage. Or, the equipment isn’t functioning, or is disconnected.

 

The Avocado product can send alerts about the malfunction so that adjustments can be made to the security system almost immediately.

 

“When video surveillance security images are not consistently accessible, the entire operation may be compromised. This may be due to the fact that cameras or DVRs have stopped recording or were misaligned well before an incident took place,” said Shahbazi.