When people hear the word “surveillance,” they instantly become concerned. It’s true, there’s a history of governments and organizations taking security too far. As the head of security or a security provider who wants to be on top of the game, you’re often battling that bad reputation. But what does surveillance mean? Oxford’s surveillance definition is merely “close observation.” Your surveillance strategy isn’t mind-reading or wire-tapping like some Orwellian novel.
You’re just doing your job to protect your company, clients, fellow employees, and visitors. If there was a groundbreaking way to update your security strategy with the advanced technology of artificial intelligence, would you jump on the opportunity? If you’re trying to run an airtight system while always being ready for the next threat, AI is your solution. In this guide, you’ll learn what AI can do for your surveillance strategy and how to get started.
Most businesses have long since updated their security to include video surveillance equipment. Depending on the size of the property, you could have anywhere from one to dozens of screens monitoring the area. Most companies, though, have not stepped beyond hiring security guards to sit behind those screens and rely on their own senses for detecting threats.
You have years under your belt and confidently do your job. You can’t deny, though, that you aren’t superhuman. Sometimes, you might feel aggravated by limited resources and the pressure it puts on you.
That’s not a fault on your part, but the failure of your current technology. Using artificial intelligence can change the playing field for video surveillance, and it doesn’t mean you have to get rid of your current system. Using an added layer of AI software for security can help you observe everything all at once without hiring extra employees.
You can monitor multiple data points with the same surveillance cameras, sensors, and screens that you already have set up. Instead of watching them all yourself and interpreting data, AI software can do it all at once at superhuman speed.
If you’re ready for an advanced security network that works in tandem and delivers instant results, you’ll need to learn exactly how to implement this AI technology into your surveillance strategy. Different companies have similar concerns, but also are unique in their exact needs.
In general, you’ll be making sure that only people who belong on the property are there and that they’re complying with the company’s health and safety policies. On a much more detailed scale, you’ll need to take stock of the property’s unique size, boundaries, points of entry, and more.
To see how artificial intelligence can enhance your security systems, you’ll want to think about the key concerns for the company’s industry. Because of the nature of AI, you can highly specialize the program to watch for exactly what concerns each unique situation.
If you are the head of security at hospitals, health policies are at the top of your priority list. You’re also very concerned with making sure the mass number of patients coming in and out every day are not of a violent nature, thieves, or kidnappers. You’ll be constantly watching all points of entry, especially concerned with watching the storage of equipment and medicine as well as patient rooms.
If you work in retail or bank security, your main concern is theft. You’re concerned about the safety of the staff in the event of a robbery. Having a close eye on the register and all aisles of the storefront, even the entrances to areas like the fitting room or the vault, is essential.
Restaurant security can be much like retail security. You’ll want to focus on both employee and patron theft, and have a video record of all the areas in case of injury or theft claims. If your restaurant has a bar, your footage might come in handy for drunk driving accidents in your parking lot or vandalism.
AI software will be able to tackle all of the unique concerns in your strategy by covering all the bases but it will also allow you to focus observation in key areas. Use these pointers as a way to address the technology you already have. AI can work with the sensors, hidden surveillance cameras, and computers you already have installed, but if your system is lacking in hardware, you should address that first.
If you have several monitors that help you observe one location, it’s likely that you are trying to watch all of them at the same time. If you have multiple locations that you’re in charge of, your job is exponentially more difficult. Integrating AI software for your security system can consolidate your efforts.
Installing AI software and linking it to all your computers and sensors in every location will allow you to monitor everything all at once without the hassle of observing manually. With this new system, all of your hardware is linked together and communicates alerts to you through one stream.
Using this new system, you’ll have to change your workflow a bit. Instead of using all your time to observe every screen and check every alert, you’ll now have time freed up to make critical decisions. The AI software will track every data point and only bring suspected threats to your attention, leaving you to act on threats quickly rather than processing everything yourself.
The best part about artificial intelligence for security is that it decreases the number of false positives for threats. Current traditional systems get tripped very often, taking up your time by forcing you to debunk every alert. AI for security learns your system through machine learning and still shows you alerts, but can distinguish real threats from suspected threats.
Almost every company is worried about its perimeter. These set perimeters act as the line between what you concern yourself with as the head of security and what you don’t. They also act as the gate through which potential threats enter your property.
Artificial intelligence software is extremely fast and smart, but can only work as well as the hardware you provide it. Make sure your entire perimeter is covered, then tell the AI what sensors to watch.
When you integrate AI software into your perimeter security, it will be able to track the make and models of vehicles, license plates, times of entry, and more. You can use AI software to watch for a certain vehicle, or you can use it to keep a count of how many vehicles have entered and exited for parking.
Identifying the people who enter and exit the property can be very helpful for many different reasons. Government agencies, for example, will be very concerned with security clearances, so setting up your AI software for facial recognition and license plate recognition can be extremely beneficial.
If you are running security for a school or hospital, a continually rising threat is the occurrence of active shooters. Banks and retail stores also face the serious threat of armed robbery. Not only will facial recognition be helpful in this scenario, but also automatic alerts for weapons.
You can set up AI software to run your security so that you have an extremely fast and smart algorithm analyzing human behavior and detecting threats with its machine learning capabilities. It can watch for specific objects such as weapons and immediately alert you if one has been spotted anywhere on the property.
Allowing AI to watch for threats and detecting bad situations before they happen allows you to intervene and save lives.
Concerned about something that has happened lately? Use AI to quickly search for specific people, objects, and patterns in historic data. If you need to see surveillance footage from any day and time, you can use the AI software to go back into historical data.
Unlike traditional video surveillance systems, you can use AI software to run an analysis on the data and alert you of patterns in behavior. This gives you immediate results when searching for a specific threat rather than hours of work manually running through all the data yourself.
Regardless of where you work, but especially at places of medical care, the pandemic has completely added a new level of security to your strategy. Government and private regulations have added limits to the number of people allowed inside a building, so companies have had to keep a count of people manually.
Regulations have also imposed mask-wearing, so many companies have hired extra help to stand at doors and ask visitors to put on their masks. Social distancing has also been a strict yet elusive regulation that is hard to impose practically.
Certain companies have even had to monitor the symptoms of employees and visitors. Many businesses have attacked this part of security manually by taking temperatures, but AI can do it as part of a larger, integrated security system.
You can integrate AI into your surveillance systems to monitor COVID policy compliance by telling your system to watch for masks, take temperatures, count visitors, and even check for social distancing.
The possibilities for what AI can do for your surveillance strategy are almost limitless. Instead of working alongside your security system, your security system can now work for you.
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