cation when unauthorized access is noted — can provide you with alerts when unau-thorized access occurs. This solution will detect and notify both your security team and local police and get appropriate personnel to the scene of the incident. If, however, you combine this gathered information with video surveillance, iden-tification of perpetrators takes place and reduces the likelihood that similar activities will occur again. Providing a safe environment inside your building is also an important element in pro-tecting your staff and patrons. To prevent accidents, businesses are find-ing that prevention is paramount to limit not only accidents and injuries, but also the cost associated with claims related to them. You can create employee due diligence programs, outlining proper processes and procedures, but how do you verify that they are being followed? By implementing a visual and electronic audit trail provided by visual video intelli-gence, you can easily gain the ability to view floor activity and act upon it if conformity is not taking place. You will be able to easily determine whether aisles and bathrooms are clean, caution signs are up and employees are fol-lowing recommended guidelines. Reports will be delivered to you elec-tronically eliminating the need to create and manage cumbersome and time-consuming paper-based systems and paper-based au-dit trails. And, with the new advancements in tech-nology, you’ll be able to access this informa-tion remotely. without the need to review hours of footage to find the information needed. For example, when integrated as part of a VBI solution, integrated access control and video verification can allow you to view a cardholder’s picture when an access card is presented to a reader at a secure or restrict-ed location. Staff can verify that the person presenting the badge is the actual cardholder, and if not, react quickly to guarantee that only autho-rized personnel are in the area. Video verification can also be used in the case of tailgating — when one person uses their badge to gain access and another person follows them in without presenting their badge. The integrated system now allows staff to visually identify, verify and capture security breaches at access points. You’ll gain more than increased security of your occupants when you receive notifica-tion of breaches of secure zones. You also now have the ability to detect loitering, which could indicate suspicious behavior, usual activities such as perimeter intrusions, and movement in secure areas or suspicious items left unattended. VBI will allow any number of these items to show up in reports as anomalies, which can then provide you with instant alerts al-lowing you to act quickly to events that you have predetermined need to be immedi-ately addressed. You can also gain access to information that can help uncover staff errors, training or skill deficiencies, as well as questionable or dishonest practices to assist you in running your operation even more effectively. you have a true picture of what transpired. Now you can leverage technology and proactively drive any investigation that needs to occur, actively uncovering errors, inefficiencies, questionable or dishonest practices. As a result, you detect sooner and respond quicker enabling a more timely resolution of issues encountered. While it’s imperative to handle any secu-rity or safety concern as quickly as possible, further investigation into the matter is often required. Video resolution is key to capturing the details critical to that investigation, and high-definition IP video can make all the difference. You no longer have to rely on grainy, low-resolution analog images that often failed to provide conclusive evidence in security investigations. Now you can identify exactly who or what is in your captured video to aid in the inves-tigation. Anytime, Anywhere Access The new IP-based surveillance systems al-low users to capture and distribute video, audio and transactional data over any kind of IP network. With an Internet connection, authorized users are able to monitor multiple locations from a single location. By having your cameras connected to a network, you can achieve a higher level of surveillance with fewer cameras and less people — while identifying and address-ing areas of safety or security concern in a more efficient and timely manner. Now it’s easier than ever to safeguard the people in your facilities and gain the added benefit of improving your business efficiencies. Using video surveillance already captured and incorporating it with other data in your business provides you with visual insight into areas of your operation to determine how your current programs are working — and where you might want to make some improvements. And it can all be delivered automatically to you, wherever you are located, giving you instant access and the ability to react quickly to situations requiring your imme-diate attention. www.CMMOnline.com Improved Video Surveillance Older video systems needed banks of video-tape for continuous recording and manual administration to swap tapes periodically throughout the day. Record keeping was labor intensive which could lead to errors, and finding specific inci-dents in the case of security breaches or ac-cidents was time-consuming. With advanced technology, it’s now pos-sible to manage video feeds from many cameras and provide access to security or building management personnel easily and Enhancing Your Initiatives By defining the rules, or exceptions you are interested in tracking on a regular basis, you drive the investigation into uncovering how these exceptions are impacting your operations. Your system actively monitors your envi-ronment and identifies these activities — in real time — deemed to be suspicious. Reports can be generated by a variety of parameters including point of sale, time, amounts or exception kind, and ac-cessed from any computer connected to your network. When coupled with relevant video clips, 35
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