IDIS: AIVideo Innovations Offer Impressive Value for Users

IDIS is transforming video surveillance with a new generation of AI-powered solutions that deliver enhanced safety, operational efficiency, and ease of use. From real-time threat detection to faster video search and smart privacy masking, these innovations are making advanced security more accessible and effective across sectors.

By: Dennis Choi, General Manager, IDIS Middle East & North Africa

Advanced video analytics solutions are now being adopted by an ever-wider range of users across the region, not just in higher-security, critical infrastructure, and government applications, but also in many sectors where application-specific uses for AI are being developed and leveraged. The improved value, performance, and ease of uptake of AI video solutions are having a positive impact. For example, the latest tech releases from IDIS are making it more practical and affordable to harness AI for both surveillance system upgrades and new installations, with options that include system-wide analytics and targeted, location-specific AI video.

Force Multiplying Efficiency

As a result, force-multiplying functionality has become easily available for many more users in settings from healthcare to education, from logistics and transportation to retail and hospitality. IDIS’s new Edge AI Plus Camera range is giving organizations the ability to increase security and safety and to enhance operational efficiency with automated detection of a wider range of risk events, easier real-time video search functions, and other useful tools, including more accurate live privacy masking. The Edge AI Camera Plus range features IDIS’s latest analytics engine, IDLA Pro. With on-the-edge analytics capabilities and four new essential functions, including crowd detection, abandoned and removed object detection, and fall detection, to support preventative and proactive security and safety responses.

Improving Safety, Freeing up Staff

Fall detection, for example, is being adopted to improve safety in healthcare and assisted-living settings, where it is supporting faster response if somebody gets into difficulty, while freeing up staff from the need to monitor video feeds continually. The same technology is being used to reduce the risk of harm from accidents in industrial and logistics settings, and to improve safety in public spaces, sports, and recreation settings where there is a higher risk of injuries.

Removed or abandoned object detection is being used to detect potential terrorist activity in public spaces, transit networks, and critical infrastructure settings; elsewhere the same detection capability is providing automated warnings if fire extinguishers are removed, if fire doors are blocked or left open, if emergency exit routes are obstructed, or if high value equipment or assets are moved – everything from medical equipment to vehicles and machinery.

In logistics settings, car parks, and loading bays, AI video enables the immediate relay of alerts to security teams when people or vehicles enter unsafe or restricted areas. Where it would once have been too expensive or impractical for human eyes to monitor multiple scenes 24/7, AI video now makes this practical. And thanks to IR, WDR, and a larger sensor (1/1.8”), the cameras ensure outstanding HD image capture and threat detection even in challenging lighting conditions, including bright sunlight and darkness.

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Smarter, Faster Searching

Further reducing time-consuming activity for monitoring teams, IDIS’s enhanced real-time search function, A-Cut, is a powerful live monitoring technology that uses AI to overcome the challenge of locating crucial scenes among vast amounts of video footage. A-Cut makes any target object or person easier to find by automatically extracting the best representative images, cropping them, and presenting them for operators to select. Simply by clicking on the cropped image, the operator is taken to the precise moment in the video stream when the object last appears (i.e., their most recent activity captured on camera).

Each cropped image is indexed as a searchable visual moment, supporting faster identification. The cropped images become even more powerful search tools when combined with IDIS AI Search functions. Every cropped image is classified into three categories: people, faces, and vehicles. To make tracking easier, A-Cut, combined with AI Search, also identifies object attributes and allows for filtered searches – such as searching for people by age and gender, clothing color, or whether they have accessories like glasses, hats, masks, or bags; or searching for vehicles by color or type.

The benefits of automated detection and easier real-time tracking go beyond improved security and reduced risk of events being missed. AI video solutions are allowing security response staff to be redeployed away from their monitoring stations, to provide a more visible and reassuring presence, and to deliver faster responses when incidents occur.

Maintaining Privacy without Compromising Security

Supporting more responsive live surveillance operations in settings where privacy and compliance are a concern – such as international hotels, healthcare, and government facilities – IDIS Smart Privacy Masks offers a real-time privacy masking solution that protects individuals’ identities without compromising on the quality of video capture or the visibility it provides. The new, patented technology eliminates the challenges associated with conventional masking, maintaining high video resolution and frame rates even in busy environments.

Smart Privacy Masks adjusts mosaic strength for more finely calibrated masking, making it easier to distinguish people’s actions in real-time while always protecting individuals’ identities. And because IDIS Smart Privacy Masking takes place on board IDIS Solution Suite VMS, it is resource-efficient, ensuring stable, high-resolution video transmission to retain usable footage and forensic evidence. Added together, these latest AI video innovations from IDIS are unlocking significant benefits for users – not least the assurance of easy adoption of future innovations as they come on stream.