Without such technology, it can take massive amounts of time and resources to investigate incidents because security personnel and administrators are often required to search through hours or days of security footage in order to find the event that they are looking for. 

Avigilon Appearance Search is an advanced video analytics technology that sorts through hours of video with ease so that users can quickly locate a specific person or vehicle of interest, reducing hours of work to minutes to help them respond faster and easily compile evidence. It works across an entire site, or across multiple sites that are connected to the same Avigilon Control Center (ACC) client software.

Time is critical when investigating emergencies or crimes in progress. The security personnel operating the system can search video footage by using physical descriptions such as gender, clothing colour, vehicle type, and vehicle color to quickly find a person or vehicle in question.

Avigilon also includes face analytics in the search feature so that the system retains the facial characteristics of people it scans. These face analytic capabilities allow the system to search for and recognise an individual, even when items such as their clothing changes.

The Identity Search feature allows users to quickly search for a person of interest using their access credentials, and then conduct an Appearance Search for that person within the same dashboard to find their current or previous location on site. To meet compliance standards with new privacy and data protection measures, users can also export these search results using ACC software while blurring the images of other people that are present in the video with the person of interest.

By helping deploy Avigilon technologies, Convergint can take a reactive security solution—traditional video search—and turn it into a proactive search engine that can help users find specific people or objects rapidly. This video analytic technology allows security operators and administrators to skip the tedious process of searching video after video. According to Convergint, Avigilon Appearance Search technology reduces the response time to incidents while providing critical information for investigative purposes and significantly decreasing precious time and resources.