April 9, 2007—Honeywell had acquired ActivEye, Inc., a provider of video analytics software and technology for security and surveillance applications.
Video analytics software reviews vast amounts of raw video in real-time, using rules-based object detection, classification, and tracking to distinguish suspicious activity from normal activity and generating alerts that focus on customer-specified important events.
By making it possible to concentrate on meaningful activity, video analytics improves safety and security, as it enables better decision-making and a faster reaction to events. It can also improve productivity by facilitating the indexing, searching, and rapid retrieval of stored video. The technology is important in numerous applications, says Honeywell, including retail, education, financial, gaming, traffic, and government, and it can also be used to analyze retailing merchandising strategies and perform market research.
The range of ActivEye video analytics solutions includes: Active Alert, a suite of products for manned and unmanned video surveillance systems, which uses video content analysis software and forensic tools to provide real-time alarms based on actionable events and behaviors; ActivEye Smart Impressions, which analyzes individual customer and vehicular activity, and traffic patterns for facilities management and merchandising applications, and ActivEye Forensics, which enables the rapid review and filtering of pre-recorded video up to 50 indexed parameters.
For more information visit the Honeywell Web site.
