According to Pelco management, the integration of these products will save time, identify theft and assist in eliminating employee errors - particularly in the retail industry - by controlling losses and inventory shrinkage. The combination of retail issues addressed by this integration lends to greater profits for the end-user and also will serve as a retail sales auditing tool.

"The Pelco/Agilence solution combines all the advantages of powerful data-mining tools and retail-specific investigative techniques, allowing retail management to accurately identify and reduce shrink at the point-of-sale, pinpoint operational problems and equipment failures, and identify training issues," says Pete Schmidt, Pelco industry solutions director.

"The combination of our Intelligent video auditing solution and Pelco's DX8000/DX8100 provides a compelling answer to the retail industry's USD10 billion cashier shrink problem," says John Sullivan, Agilence executive vice president of marketing.