Top 10 smart surveillance systems from Israel

signal processing and video compression. A featured part of the system is a modem that allows data transmission at rates that are much more robust than in most other systems. In addition, Sea-Eye has developed algorithms to cope with underwater signal transmission problems such as multi-path reflection and Doppler effects, enabling streaming video or voice broadcasting to proceed unimpeded. The result - clearer underwater pictures with more detail - granting security services better tools to protect underwater installations.

6. AgentVI. Large facilities like airports, shopping malls, or stadiums are nowadays equipped with cameras that allow security personnel to view nearly every square inch of the facility. What is it, though, that security personnel are seeing? How can they differentiate between individuals or groups out for good clean fun, and those with crime — or terrorism — on their minds?

One innovative way is by using the video analytics system developed by Agent VI (formerly Aspectus), with research facilities in Rosh Ha’ayin, in central Israel. The company’s VI-System compares video to a database of behavior patterns. When a pattern is detected that indicates trouble, an alarm is sounded, alerting personnel.

The alarms could be set off by images ranging from someone dropping a gym bag in the corner of a busy downtown intersection, to someone reaching behind an unattended jewelry counter in a department store. Those guys are likely up to no good — and with Agent VI’s technology, the chances that security personnel can nip a crime or attack in the bud are greatly improved.

7. Magal Security Systems. Some of the softest, most vulnerable targets for terrorists are the ones where they can operate uninterrupted and unobserved. Take a reservoir, for example — a body of water that sits relatively unattended and unprotected (except for a perimeter fence), but upon which millions of people depend. Even placing a battalion of soldiers there would not necessarily be sufficient to protect such a large facility — not that governments can afford to allocate those kinds of resources anyway.

One solution that has proven successful has been perimeter detection, a specialty of Magal Systems, based in Yehud in central Israel. Magal is one of the largest outdoor, major-installation security companies in the world, with offices in dozens of countries, which claims 40 percent of the worldwide market for Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems.

Using a range of tools — from video cameras to lasers to microwave