After hidden surveillance camera footage is used in a court case against two alleged marijuana-growers, a judge rules in favor of law enforcement agents, which sparks a debate over privacy and Fourth Amendment rights.
These days, when it comes to storage of video, it’s choice – not chance – that determines security’s success at meeting its mission with use of technology. This is true for enterprise security leaders at the biggest organizations, where large numbers of cameras create ingest, frame rate, image quality and physical storage cost challenges.
New research from Carnegie Mellon University indicates that using computer software instead of humans to monitor video feeds is not too distant a goal.
A bill that would require the New York Police Department to alert state officials before conducting surveillance inside New Jersey was unanimously approved by an Assembly panel Monday.
Security and video surveillance needs change with time, and it's important to keep up with those changing needs. For video management system (VMS) software, features that were sufficient to meet video surveillance needs when a system was installed may not be sufficient now.
It often appears that everyone in the industry is talking about how to lower the costs of networked surveillance cameras compared to that of the analog security video type. What doesn’t seem to get as much attention is the fact that the really expensive cameras are growing as fast as is the low-end camera market.