Safety and Security Trends for 2023 According to Our Sales Team

Artificial intelligence for video surveillance utilizes computer software programs that analyse the audio and images from video surveillance cameras in order to recognize humans, vehicles, objects, attributes, and events. Adding an AI-software to your existing CCTV systems leads to more chaos regarding handling all those different sub-systems. Our Open Integration Software Sky-Walker is created to integrate all these different sub-systems into one easy-to-handle interface. Your control room operators will need only one education instead of having to learn to handle all different tools. Information is gathered centrally, which makes a total overview and a central approach possible.

By analysing the video content in real-time and extracting metadata from the sub-systems for CCTV, Sky-Walker will be able to send out alerts and provide actionable intelligence to security personnel or other systems. Furthermore, as the words Artificial Intelligence suggest, the systems can learn from the metadata they extract. Because all this data is collected centrally, Sky-Walker is able to store this data and learn from it as well. When specific and formerly unknown incidents occur, the AI software system will use those events to learn how to recognise a possible event in the future. Sky-Walker will then be able to send notifications even when an incident has not yet occurred.

Especially if your security personnel wears Body Worn Cameras, this AI addition to the regular video surveillance is a must if you aim to optimise safety and security in your company. Suspicious visitors will be recognised quicker every time a similar incident occurs. This will not only lead to better detection of suspicious or threatening people or situations, but it will decrease the false alarms as well since the recognition of what is hazardous will improve. This will, in its turn, also decrease the number of times police or other emergency services were called upon in vain.

Drone Usage 

AI, drones, connected devices… so many new technologies can be used for safety and security improvements. Some of them can even be used to optimise comfort in day to day tasks and processes. Drones are one of those tools that can help a lot with the monitoring of company processes. This trend can in fact lead to an optimisation of a lot of logistical workflow by combining all three trends applied in this paragraph.

When you aim to optimise certain logistic workflows, the usage of drones can be implemented in the daily schemes to increase production time and the correctness of stocks. You could choose to let drones fly through your warehouses at any time to scan all articles. An automated stock count can be performed so that the amount of mistakes and theft can be reduced. When stock counts will be carried out, production time increases since the staff must not administer the counting. This is a huge optimisation that does not even require an increase of personnel, but it decreases the required man capacity instead. Above all, this cuts the costs immediately since there are less mistakes to be fixed or stolen goods to replace.

Due to this overall logistic improvement, the advantages are endless. Think about the increased customer experience due to in-time collecting of all goods. Less delays and less replacements due to the lack of stock, because counting mistakes and theft are no longer daily issues, also increases the general workflow. This is once again a good improvement from your suppliers' experience and leads to less costs. 

Results by combining a Sky-Walker solution to these three trends:

• Drones can be granted more credibility due to machine operating instead of manual operating. Software systems can centralise all data collected and provide fast solutions when there are issues in the process.
• A decrease in incorrect stock counts and reduction of theft is achieved.
• Less man capacity is required due to machine operations that can take over heavy-duty tasks.
• Central data collection motivates decision making on a higher level.
• Monitoring staff needs to be educated in one software interface only.

Are you wondering how Sky-Walker can add value to these far-reaching logistic improvements? Do not hesitate to request a free live demo below or get in touch with our sales team to discuss the improvements that await you!

We discussed one approach of economic improvements already in the paragraph above. But economic improvements cannot only be achieved due to an optimised and automatic logistic workflow. There are many different workflows and daily activities in a wide variety of businesses that can be optimised by automation. Usually, it is the big list of requirements that discourage businesses to choose this path. Many tools and sub-systems lead to a chaotic situation when actions shall be taken.

That is mainly because every action taken implements the usage of the specific software system. It becomes harder the more you do, whilst these implementations were developed to improve workflows initially. Our Open Integration Software Sky-Walker makes sure that these improvements are possible in a user friendly way. It integrates all your different systems in one easy-to-handle interface so that every task to be carried out can be managed centrally. Central decision making instead of a local approach means that less mistakes can happen. Information flows from control room to local workers flawlessly and monitoring results becomes piece of cake. Even the number of control room operators and central decision makers can be reduced.

When you have a multitude of automated devices in your daily workflows, Sky-Walker could be the ultimate software to combine all data and improve decision-making due to a central approach. Autonomous devices are a physical form of autonomous technology. Robots, both functional and humanoids, drones and vehicles are a few examples of autonomous devices. Autonomous devices learn from their surroundings and complete tasks without continued human input.

Once again, we are discussing an automation solution. This is required in every company to gain competitive advantages. These competitive advantages are huge:

• Reduction of time spent on daily activities.
• Reduction of required man capacity.
• Reduction of costs.
• Increase in delivered service.
• Increase in customer satisfaction.
• Increase in safety and security.

Let’s say you are choosing which cameras will be installed in your company. Company A charges €100 and Company B charges €50. The decision maker will possibly choose for the cheapest option, since both products are from sophisticated companies that deliver high-quality products.

But what with the duration of that quality? When does a product’s warranty period end and how much longer will the product work properly? Many times when people choose for the cheapest option or make a decision based on poor market research, products start to fail after the warranty period is over. Many new costs arise. This is mostly because the purchase of the cameras, in our example, is not the most expensive cost to be made. The working hours to replace the cameras and the price of the new software systems are the greater difficulties.

This trend is not just one that comes with easy solutions. Once again, software specialised in fixing these issues and aiding in buying decisions shall be bought. Sky-Walker can be of huge advantage by implementing this software system as well as all your other safety, security or comfort sub-systems into one open interface. One platform to work on provides advantages in the optimisation of almost all processes. Therefore, the implementation of Sky-Walker in your control room is no longer to be postponed!