The marriage of intelligent video surveillance and alarm service industry

As we all know, the alarm system is the basis of the security system. The alarm service industry is a relatively mature, popular and popular industry in foreign developed countries. The share of the overall industry revenue is considerable, such as the total income of the US security company in 2007. An average of 33% comes from the alarm system. The alarm service industry in China started relatively late. Although the market has experienced a development process of about 20 years, it is still a very young industry compared with European and American countries. In recent years, the service units for alarm services have gradually increased, but at present, the proportion of alarm products and services in the security industry is obviously low. According to statistics, China's current alarm service subscribers are only about 1 million subscribers, while US subscribers have reached about 7 million subscribers. China's alarm service system construction has a far-reaching gap in its coverage, and its scope of application is limited to financial institutions with relatively high security budgets.

The investment in security equipment is mainly used to protect the safety of people and property. From a certain level, the development of the security industry is closely related to the accumulation of wealth in a country. Only when the economy of a certain country or region reaches a certain level of Will give birth to a large number of security products demand. According to the laws of the industry (refer to the third-party report), when the per capita GDP of a country reaches 3,000 US dollars, the security industry will achieve rapid development. The more advanced countries or regions have more demand for security products. The United States is the world's largest security market. The United States’ share of global electronic security product consumption has increased from 15% to 27% in the past 10 years. Western Europe has a generally high level of security technology and an industry management system that accounts for 22% of global security product consumption. The per capita GDP of China surpassed the $3,000 mark last year, which means that China's security spending will enter the popularization stage. The growth of the alarm industry, which is the main and most basic part of public security, will enter the blowout stage with the proliferation of security consumption. It is estimated that by 2011, China’s market size in this part will reach US$19.6 billion.

From a policy point of view, the introduction of regulations on the management of security services at the beginning of 2010 provided a more comprehensive channel for companies to enter this market. This means that foreign alarm service companies will no longer have to worry about a paper permit to enter China. Before June this year, public security agencies will fully launch their holdings of security service companies. At the same time, the state encourages private capital to enter the field of security services through the transfer of shares. This is undoubtedly a good news for the current alarm service industry.

ADT, the world’s first alarm monitoring brand under U.S. Tyco, established the first alarm monitoring center in China in 2006. It is a fee-based security service that replaces the police function to a certain extent. This is the first time that Tyco has used this new brand. The safety and fire alarm service model was introduced into China. The alarm call service provided by ADT is to connect the user's monitoring system with the all-weather monitoring center. The trained professionals provide uninterrupted real-time observation, listening and alarm services through advanced monitoring equipment and technology. When emergencies such as theft, pyrotechnic warning, carbon monoxide, water immersion, and medical emergencies occur at the user's end, the monitoring is alerted at the earliest time and promptly contacts the owner and the police, the fire brigade or ambulance, etc. to ensure timely control of the incidents. deal with. Although ADT has exerted great efforts to develop the Chinese market, at present its domestic customers are limited to only a few high-end financial customers, and the broader market has not yet been tapped. The police in the community and the police still use the public security system as the security company. the Lord. In recent years, the development of the alarm service industry has not seen the market effect expected by the industry. Whether this service model or the market share is not satisfactory, there are only a few companies operating in the country. For the reason, I think the bottlenecks that have constrained the development of China's alarm service industry are the following.

1. Most of the alarm centers have a single mode of construction and operation. The self-funded and self-built alarm center hardware equipment lags behind and remains in the eyes of all-weather monitoring. Frequent occurrences of false positives and missed reports affect the quality of service and greatly reduce the quality of alarm services. .

2. After-sales service and system maintenance are not in place. Due to the lack of close cooperation between large enterprises and manufacturers, the daily inspection and maintenance of the system are difficult to achieve, causing user concerns and reducing the attractiveness of market applications;

3. There is no scale effect and brand effect. Taking the developed countries such as the United States and Japan as examples, there are at least one or two large-scale well-known companies in these markets. They have huge user groups, and they have created good social and economic benefits, and commercial operations have developed very well.

Take the ADT's alarm center as an example, the most common one is to use artificially to monitor the monitor all-weather at any time, and to find an abnormal situation to alarm. Scientific research shows that after 20 minutes of focusing on the video wall, the attention of the human eye drops sharply. The sharp angle of view is only 10 degrees. The rest is only light, and the range of sensitive observation is small. The low visibility at night and the slowness of reflection will result in the loss of important information. A lot of uninterrupted recordings, which consume a lot of storage space, waste time and resources. According to statistics, there are currently about 5 million cameras installed in public areas. This figure will reach 16 million units in 2011, following the construction of the safe city and the development of the alarm service industry. With the cameras installed by each district and unit, the total domestic installed capacity will exceed 20 million units. Such a huge number of monitoring systems all depend on the human eye for monitoring and identification. On the one hand, it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources. On the other hand, there are also many problems in the quality of the alarm. The video surveillance system will be intelligent and high-definition will be an inevitable trend.

There are two problems to be solved in intelligent video analysis: one is to free security personnel from the complex and boring “eye-screen” task, and the machine completes this part of the work; the other is to quickly search in massive video data. To the image you are looking for. Operators staring at the screen wall for more than 10 minutes will lose 90% of the video information and make this work useless; in the London Underground case, security personnel spent 70 man hours to find the information needed on a large number of tapes. Therefore, based on the above two points, time is the center of receiving alarm for money and life. An intelligent video analysis system must be selected. The intelligent video analysis system will become the standard of the alarm service monitoring system in the future.

Intelligent video analysis products can be used in video surveillance systems to analyze and detect the video. If there is illegal behavior or any behavior that violates the set rules, an alarm will be triggered immediately and an alarm signal will be sent to the monitor, mobile phone, or 110 alarm center. , At the same time trigger the indicator to alarm. The use of intelligent video analytics monitoring has the following advantages:

1. Fast response time - Millisecond-level alarm triggering response time 2. More effective monitoring - Security operators only need to pay attention to relevant information 3. Powerful data retrieval and analysis functions can provide fast response time and investigation time. Current market The mainstream intelligent vision analysis product is the target threat detection intelligent visual analysis technology, which is a very advanced technology. It surpasses the simple detection motion adopted by video motion detection (VMD) technology used by many video analysis manufacturers. The way. Unlike VMD's pixel-based motion detection, target threat detection technology detects threats based on targets. Its self-learning, self-adaptive and self-adjusting capabilities, as well as advanced algorithms and visual logic provide extremely powerful threat detection capabilities. The target threat detection technology provides continuous all-weather monitoring, which can automatically monitor every inch of the video, effectively enhance the traditional detection capabilities of video surveillance, increase the alert strength, improve the monitoring efficiency and automatically respond to the alarm, thus achieving 7 ×24 All-weather continuous monitoring or unattended monitoring for important hours. Currently, the intelligent vision analysis technology has various types of functional modules and can be applied to various indoor or outdoor security monitoring occasions, including: intrusion detection module, abandoned object detection module, item removal detection module, autonomous automatic PTZ intelligent tracking module, Illegal parking detection module and defect detection module.

For the alarm service industry, due to the diversity of customers and the complexity of applicable locations, the requirements for surveillance products and surveillance personnel are very high, which greatly increases the cost of the industry. The application of intelligent visual analysis products in the monitoring system can greatly reduce the expenses of security personnel. In the intelligent monitoring and alarm environment, a security personnel can monitor multi-channel monitoring video, and security personnel only need to pay attention to the alarm; On the other hand, it greatly reduces the occurrence of false positives and provides customers with timely and accurate warning signals.

With the construction of safe cities and community security, a large-scale alarm service center will be gradually promoted, and the alarm service industry will usher in the spring of industrial development after several years of incubation. From last year's Shenzhen AMB, it can be seen that the security industry is gradually moving towards the road of intelligence, high-definition, and networking. The marriage of intelligent video surveillance and alarm services will be imperative.