Scyron intelligent surveillance available to private sector

Story link: Scyron intelligent surveillance available to private sector by Jan Harris

Scyron Ltd, an Edgbaston-based security and surveillance services company, has made its intelligent, incident-based surveillance system available to the private sector.

The company has successfully deployed the system to 48 UK police forces where the innovative technology has improved the efficiency of evidence gathering from CCTV footage. The technology is also used by foreign police forces and government agencies, including the FBI.

The system can reduce the time it takes to analyse a 24 hour tape, from one week if this was done manually, to less than three hours.

The improved efficiency provided by the system can result in significant cost savings and also eliminates the need for blanket surveillance of law-abiding citizens.

According to Scyron, the 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK record around 35 billion hours of footage, which cost millions of pounds of tax payer’s money to analyse.

Scyron’s technology automates the process, helping to identify relevant footage and target criminals. The system uses a sophisticated algorithm which can trigger a camera to record a specific event, or trigger an alarm if an action occurs - someone approaching a perimeter fence, for example.

It can also be used retrospectively to identify a specific behaviour on a video tape, such as people loitering for longer than a specified time.

Scyron is targeting the technology at law enforcement, commercial security, transport, energy and the leisure sectors.