VideoIQ® has announced general availability of the VideoIQ iCVRÔ, the world’s first intelligent surveillance Camera with built in DVR. VideoIQ has built advanced analytics, content-aware storage, object search, and intelligent networking into state-of-the- art IP cameras and encoders, which are redefining how IP surveillance works. At beta customer sites, the VideoIQ iCVR demonstrated the ability to solve the bandwidth and storage problems that plague traditional network cameras, while turning video into a proactive security solution. Organizations including MITRE, a tenant at the Port of Long Beach and Berkshire Schools were among the over two dozen beta customers that successfully deployed the VideoIQ iCVR for a range of applications serving to provide early warning, security protection and incident investigation.

Beta customers used the iCVR for numerous applications including: 

• Perimeter Protection – Major urban auto dealerships, long-term parking lots and transport sites benefitted from the iCVR’s ability to monitor the perimeter of their site for persons coming over a fence or vehicles attempting to enter through unmanned exit gates. The VideoIQ iCVR alerted remote guards when access to the secured area was not gained via authorized entry points.

• Unmanned Site Protection – The iCVR was used at construction sites during periods of time where no activity was generally occurring at the site. VideoIQ’s analytics allowed for the operator to specify time of day options when rules should be in effect. While such sites are often unmanned making object detection theoretically simple, they are also outdoors, where wildlife and weather conditions will cause rampant false alarms and missed events with all other analytics products. The iCVR’s intelligent bandwidth throttling allowed for these sites to be monitored via wireless broadband networks, reducing setup time and negating the need for costly T1 installations.

• Direction of Travel – MITRE was among the beta customers to use the iCVR to detectwhen vehicles or people were moving in a prohibited direction. Leveraging the ability to dynamically detect objects moving against the expected traffic flow allowed customers to uncover potential threats, and quickly respond to potential problem behavior.

• Excess Object Monitoring -- iCVR cameras were deployed at a hospital facility to monitor access doors to a high security area. By looking for multiple persons appearing in a small ROI (region of interest), potential tailgaters into the secure area were quickly identified.

• Object Search– All sites benefitted from the ability to quickly search and locate alarm events, and search for appearances of specific suspects on multiple cameras at their location. VideoIQ Click-and-Search™ capability is unique to the iCVR and reduces forensic event investigation duration by 10x and more. Several sites, including the Berkshire Union Free School District, commented that the ability to quickly find where a perpetrator entered or exited a property allowed for their security teams to be more responsive and provide a higher degree of safety to their guests or customers.