How Can Camdog’s Video Surveillance Software Stop Suspicious Activity?
Are you using video surveillance software to protect your business?
Threats of violence, theft, and other suspicious activities are all too common for businesses. In the retail sector, there are over 1 million incidents of shoplifting every single day in the United States alone. This shocking statistic results in $20 billion in losses annually.
While regular CCTV and video monitoring systems can catch problematic acts on camera, they are often only useful after the events have occurred. To make matters worse, catching offenders could require hours of watching past footage.
Camdog system powered by deep learning techniques can help solve the problem. Camdog uses advanced deep learning algorithms to spot and record suspicious activity. By using this modern video surveillance software, Camdog can use your camera to truly protect you.
Detect Loiterers
When strangers are frequently hanging around your business, you should be suspicious. Are they watching to find out where you keep valuables such as cash and jewelry? Or are they trying to work out the best time to commit a crime of violence of theft?
Fortunately for you, Camdog is able to detect when people are loitering and has many features to help you beat these loiterers.
When setting up your IP cameras with the system, you can select regions of interest (ROI). These ROIs could be the area outside of your business, or even inside your premises.
Camdog will automatically detect when events occur inside of your ROIs. This is achieved through state-of-the-art machine learning models based upon convolutional neural networks (CNN).
CNNs are one of the best ways of analyzing images and videos with artificial intelligence. Camdog uses CNNs to recognize different objects such as people, goods, and vehicles in real-time. The system is also able to detect events such as people walking or standing still.
Within computers, a video is just a sequence of images. Each image is represented as an array of numbers in red, green, and blue channels.
The objective of neural networks is to convert the array of numbers into a probability prediction. For loitering detection, this could be the probability that an object is a person. Neural networks are comprised of many layers of neurons, which take in numerical inputs, perform a calculation, and then output the result after passing it through an activation function (this activation function can be used to do things such as keep the output between 0 and 1, which is necessary for probabilities).
By training the neural network and passing through thousands of training images, the weights on the neurons can be changed, which modifies the calculations and improve the probability predictions of the network.
Convolutional neural networks are a certain type of neural networks that are good for image analysis. They uniquely contain convolution layers. Convolution layers preserve the relationship between pixels in an image by passing kernels over the image which performs calculations on neighboring pixels. Since objects in an image are determined by the close-set of pixels that show the object, this is very beneficial for image analysis.
Camdog uses these CNNs to detect objects such as people in your security footage, which can then be used to successfully detect loiterers.
Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR)
If your business has a parking lot or can be accessed by a road, then there will be some unique problems that you might face.
Parking is important for many of your customers. Therefore, you may want to restrict your parking spaces to customers and employees only, and fine anyone else who tries to use your spaces. For businesses without modern video surveillance software, enforcing these rules can be difficult.
Camdog is able to read the license plates of cars in real-time using technology called automatic license plate recognition (ALPR). The system can then show you the type of vehicle, make, model, and license plate number all at once. This data can also be stored in the cloud for future reference.
When an object comes into view of your cameras, Camdog uses machine learning algorithms to detect what type of object it might be. Convolutional neural network (CNN) models are trained to detect hundreds of different objects by feeding them thousands of different labeled images. This training allows Camdog to recognize the difference between a car, a building, and a person.
When the system has detected a car in view it will automatically look for the license plate and use optical character recognition to read the license plate. The same technology that is used by computers to read your handwriting, or by the intelligence agencies to track criminal vehicles, is used by Camdog to read license plates.
Now, if an unwanted person tries to park in your parking spaces, Camdog can automatically read their license plate without you doing anything. This will be very useful if you want to take action or pass on their details to the police.
If you have a whole parking lot, then you can use this system to make it even more secure. Camdog can be combined with an automatic barrier system which means that you can allow entry to the parking lot automatically based upon the license plates of cars. Do you only want employees to access a certain part of the parking lot? Camdog can help you achieve this!
Why Camdog?
You have good reason to be worried about suspicious activity in your business. Every day, there are over 1 million incidents of shoplifting in the United States.
Regular CCTV and video monitoring systems are no longer enough. While they can capture generic footage on your premises, they are only useful after all the damage has been done. Even if they do capture footage, it is not always enough for the police to catch the criminals.
Camdog uses the latest deep learning technology to improve your IP cameras and detect suspicious activity. With convolutional neural networks trained on thousands and thousands of images, the system can recognize the difference between different objects and detect important events as they happen.
If someone is loitering around your premises, Camdog can detect that. If unwanted cars are parking in your parking spaces, Camdog can detect that. Facial recognition and automatic license plate recognition are also included. This makes Camdog and the modern video surveillance software a great addition to your business’s security.
Do you want to stop suspicious activity in your business? Contact us today so that we can help to protect your business.
