Top 10 smart surveillance systems from Israel

that Israel’s Vigilant Systems could supply those solutions. Vigilant specializes in turnkey networked video management and recording solutions, streaming high quality images over robust wireless networks, and recording them for analysis.

Video from a wide variety of cameras is streamed to a single control room, where security personnel can keep an eye on a wide area, with the ability to focus in on detailed scenarios in high resolution.

Vigilant’s solutions have been installed in dozens of city centers and shopping malls in the United States and the United Kingdom — where there are more video surveillance cameras per head than anywhere in the world, with managers saying that the systems have been integral elements in ensuring or restoring safety.

4. Briefcam. Twenty-four hours reduced to a few minutes. Cameras are everywhere these days — but what happens to the footage they record? Often nothing happens, because there is no one to sit and sift through the endless hours of video. It is usually only after a major disaster or attack that officials check the video, hoping to get clues as to whom or what caused the problem.

Briefcam’s solution is its Video Synopsis product (“BriefCam launches CCTV video synopsis technology,” 3 February 2009 HSNW). Instead of watching the entire video, a viewer can see a synopsis — with the option of focusing in on objects or people of interest from a 24-hour period within a few minutes.

If viewers notice something odd in the behavior of an individual, they can focus in on that individual, and receive an index of all his or her movements in the entire range of footage. With Briefcam VS, security personnel have a more efficient way to watch and analyze footage, making it more likely that they will catch problems before they occur.

5. Sea-Eye Underwater Technology. Not all dangers are visible to the roving camera’s eye; some are hidden away, underwater. Israel has experienced several attacks at the hands of scuba-diving terrorists, and underwater pipes and other installations may also be at risk. Cameras would be useful as aids in underwater security, but the limitations on video in underwater situations — transmission of very low-resolution pictures via cameras that have to be tethered to a ship console — make underwater video impractical for security purposes

Shamah writes that the underwater video system perfected by Sea-Eye aims to overcome previous limitations by combining new advances in