November 24, 2006—IBM, a leading provider of global security services, has introduced a service product that contains the industry’s most advanced digital surveillance technology, code-named “S3,” according to the company.
IBM’s new Digital Video Surveillance (DVS) service product leverages IBM hardware, software, research and services to enable real-time access to critical security information, providing businesses the ability to detect patterns or search for particular attributes and alert authorities of any suspicious or anomalous behavior in real time.
Available through IBM Global Technology Services, the Digital Video Surveillance service product represents the latest step in IBM’s strategy to deliver traditional labor-based technology services in a manner more similar to the delivery of technology products.
At the core of IBM’s DVS service product is a first-of-a-kind security technology created by IBM Research, known as the Smart Surveillance System (S3). S3 provides the capability to carry out efficient data analysis of video sequences either in real time or from recordings. Based on open standard middleware, the S3 platform allows for the monitoring and analysis of real-world events via multiple sensors, including video cameras, radar, chemical sensors or audio inputs. The S3 platform can also integrate technologies from multiple vendors.
Additionally, S3 is the only platform which embeds in its design multiple ways of preserving the privacy of people in the monitored space, according to the company.
This advanced surveillance technology can be adapted to the needs of virtually any industry dealing with security challenges such as financial institutions, commercial transportation organizations and industrial companies.
For more information about IBM Security and Privacy Services and the new service products, go to the Web site.
