Traditionally when Intelligent Surveillance was used for Detection on a camera a wide view was required - for instance to see a long road to detect if a car stopped where it should not or to see if a fence line was breached by intruders. If an event occurred and the operator wanted to identify the person or the vehicle the camera had to be zoomed in to get a closer look at the person or vehicle. The zooming action meant that the original scene was no longer in view of the camera and detection had to be stopped. During the period that the Identification was done if some other event occurred (such as a second person intruding from a different direction) it would be missed as the Detection would not be operational.
Recognizing the critical threats incurred by an un-monitored detection area, IQ-Hawk takes a completely different approach to solving this problem. If an event is detected such as a car having stopped where it should not then the system automatically zooms in on the vehicle an