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Video surveillance for business process optimization. Part 1.

Video surveillance is becoming widespread not only as a security tool, but also as a means of optimizing business processes in small, medium and large businesses.

Video surveillance is a good tool for reducing costs.

By installing video surveillance systems, you can not only protect yourself from theft, both from customers and employees, but also have specific information on all business processes occurring at your enterprise or retail outlet.

A manager often cannot control everything that happens at his enterprise, especially if the company is larger than average.

But cameras installed in the premises of the enterprise can record everything that happens there.

Thus, the manager receives information about how work is going at his enterprise, what processes are happening in his company.

Based on the information received, the manager can select more optimal and effective ways to organize work and business processes.

Video surveillance systems will help to structure and optimize a number of processes occurring within the company.

Business facilities for the implementation of a video surveillance system:

Entrances and exits, parking.
Offices, office buildings, business centers.
Shops, supermarkets, shopping and entertainment centers.
Car washes, gas stations.
Transport.

Parking lot, parking lot.

Acumen, together with Video Internet Technologies, has developed a video surveillance system for car parks and parking lots.

The Ai — Parking video surveillance system allows you to automate the access control system, carry out full-featured control and document the traffic flow through the entrance.

The system allows you to solve the following tasks:

Control over employees.
Calculating the time and cost of downtime in the parking lot.
Creating a card index with support for client groups.
Creating a flexible tariff grid.
Automatic control of barriers.
Measuring the weight of vehicles in the loading and unloading area.
Control of vehicle entry and exit, calculating the time and cost of being at the facility.
Detailed statistics and event log.
Creating and exporting reports.
Recognition of all types of Russian license plates (including inverse license plates).

The Ai — Parking system allows for continuous monitoring and recording of all events occurring in the parking lot.

The video server is capable of storing up to several weeks of continuous video recording.

The Ai — Parking system is also equipped with such management functions as remote access to the video archive and system administration, multi-level division of access rights to the system.

In this case, the number in text format, recognition time, direction of movement, frame from which recognition was made by viewing the video are saved to the database.

The system software supports Ai video capture cards — 16-channel card Ai-SC165 and two new models of cards mobile 4-channel Ai-BOX and Ai-SC145 with support for 16 channels.

Also, Ai — Parking uses high-resolution Acumen cameras, specially designed for license plate recognition systems — Ai-CC91, Ai-WD67, Ai-CD99 and Ai-CD98N.

They allow the system to recognize vehicle signs even at high speeds, while the image quality remains consistently high.

This is possible due to the increased speed of the camera's electronic shutter.

In addition, the cameras have a program for automatically reducing noise levels and increasing sensitivity DNR & Sense Up.

Gas stations, Car washes.

Every year the number of personal cars is steadily growing. This leads to the development of car service.

The usual gas stations are turning into multifunctional complexes, which include, in addition to fuel dispensers and fuel storage facilities, shops, cafes, payment terminals, ATMs for issuing and accepting cash, etc.

A modern gas station includes the features of managing a trading company (shop) and a parking lot (control of entry and exit of vehicles).

Video surveillance will help to significantly simplify the management of the facility.

And the wide network capabilities of Acumen recorders will become an indispensable tool for remote management for large networks of petrol stations.

The presence of video surveillance at car washes will help the manager to assess the actual number of cars serviced during the day, work shift.

Transport.

For a large transport company, be it a cargo delivery company or a taxi, it is possible to monitor vehicles only with video surveillance and the corresponding software.

In this case, the availability of wide remote access capabilities is especially important.

The Acumen line of car recorders together with the CMS software will allow you to remotely control any vehicle.

As practice shows, the use of remote access dramatically increases the responsibility of drivers, conductors, and other participants in the transportation process, invariably with a positive result.

Thanks to the capabilities of the CMS software, you have the ability to exercise full control over the vehicle: when switching to the recorder located in the car, the user gets full access (if there are appropriate access rights) to all equipment settings, work with the archive, alarm relays.

The Acumen car recorder allows 6 users to use the remote viewing function simultaneously.

When using CMS software, you can track the location of the object of observation.

In the program window, you see an expanded Google map with a dynamic icon showing the location of the vehicle.

Thus, you can determine the coordinates of the vehicle, as well as determine the direction of movement.

At the same time, you can go to the remote recorder located in this vehicle and view live video from surveillance cameras.

When switching to the recorder, you get full access to all equipment settings, work with the archive, alarm relay. On one computer of the monitoring center, you can simultaneously monitor an unlimited number of cars.

The main functionality of the CMS software includes:

control and management of end devices (DVR).
working with audio/video channels of end devices: live video, working with the archive. — remote video, audio, and signal input control of end devices.
remote control of PTZ cameras.
remote installation of device software (DVR).
remote signal notification.
working with Google electronic maps. In fact, an unlimited number of objects on the map.
simplicity and reliability in operation. To protect the recorder, two levels of protection are used: the security key for accessing the device (DVR), which is located directly in the recorder, and the user password for accessing the device (DVR).