Video analytics integrated with Azur Soft solutions enable security professionals to overcome all constraints, improve the efficiency of their operators and, consequently, reduce their operating costs. Digital Barriers has embedded its video analytics technology inside the camera to convert these into intelligent video sensors and video verification devices. This mode of operation is consistent with Azur Soft’s approach for over a decade: video analytics are best performed on the monitored site in order to avoid unrealistic or costly bandwidth requirements.

“The remote monitoring business is evolving and the use of video is now unavoidable. It is essential for security professionals to leverage the latest technologies to maintain their competitiveness by offering new services to their customers, while reducing operating costs. Only an open and modular platform such as Horus provides the agility required to interoperate with an increasingly dense ecosystem. Integration in record time of the Digital Barriers technology in our solutions is the perfect example.” states Joël Jacob – Azur Soft’s CTO.

“The quantity of security video harvested is growing at a tremendous rate and Azur Soft’s impressive monitoring platform assists greatly with the management and business exploitation of this data, allowing significant value to be realised. Coupling our video analytics has allowed the platform to take advantage of our significant investment in leading analytics creating valuable intelligence from the video and reducing personnel time in monitoring and checking alarms.” Adds Mark Patrick, Digital Barrier’s CTO.

The open architecture of Azur Soft solutions can accommodate a vast ecosystem of technologies and complementary modules and consolidate all services into a common operating interface.

The unification of all services radically changes the procedure of monitoring centres. Instead of scrutinising multiple screens in anticipation of an event operators can now focus on the treatment of qualified alarms. Via integration of Digital Barriers technologies into the Azur Soft Horus unified security platform operators receive person detection or behavioural analysis alarms generated by the cameras directly in their workspace. With a single click they can access the video archive in the related camera(s) and view both an overlay indicating the cause of the alarm and the live video feed in order to verify and process the alarm according to the guidelines stored into the Horus database.

The Osiris multi-protocol alarm frontend is now able to natively handle notifications from the Digital Barriers IP camera-embedded video analytics software such as the award winning Safezone-edge i-LIDS certified primary intrusion detection analytic.

The Horus software monitoring module also verifies the proper operation of cameras, which is a prerequisite for reliability. The video analytics detect video loss or degradation of the quality of the streams such as masking, blurring, moving camera, over- or under-exposure of a camera by performing intelligent comparison with reference images. These checks can be scheduled according to the operator’s preference. The results are managed as Horus events and are reported to an operator. They can also be processed automatically: an e-mail including images of the defective cameras can, for example, be sent automatically to the installer.