BriefCam’s New v5.4 Bolsters Real-Time Abilities & User Experience

BriefCam’s abilities to turn video surveillance into actionable intelligence, are spawning new and innovative ways to turn video footage into an essential asset for today and tomorrow.
BriefCam’s abilities to turn video surveillance into actionable intelligence, are spawning new and innovative ways to turn video footage into an essential asset for today and tomorrow.

BriefCam, the 2018 Award Winner for Best Video Analytics Solution in the ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, and an industry leading provider of Video Content Analytics and Video Synopsis® solutions, introduces v5.4 of its innovative and extensible video content analytics platform.

This latest release advances BriefCam’s real-time capabilities, enhances user experience, and accelerates processing performance across all three of the platform’s seamlessly integrated modules, further enabling customers to rapidly transform video into actionable intelligence.

(How does it work? Rapid Review & Search – Review hours of video in minutes and pinpoint people and objects of interest immediately. Planning & Research – Convert your raw video to quantitative, actionable insights. Proactive Response – Reactive becomes proactive. Too late becomes just-in-time. Get near real-time notification of critical events impacting your organization. Courtesy of BriefCam and YouTube.)

“In order to extract the value from their video surveillance investments, it is critical for enterprises and public safety agencies to adopt a comprehensive approach to video analytics as part of their overall surveillance strategy,” explains Trevor Matz, BriefCam President and CEO.

Trevor Matz, BriefCam President and CEO
Trevor Matz, BriefCam President and CEO

“BriefCam is committed to delivering an innovative video analytics platform to accelerate investigations, derive quantitative insights for operational decision making, and provide real-time situational awareness for organizations across the globe.”

BriefCam’s robust portfolio of critical video analytics solutions, fully integrated and architected for flexible deployment models, is designed to meet the safety, security, and operational efficiency needs of today and tomorrow.

BriefCam v5.4 exponentially increases on-demand video processing efficiency and performance, delivering over 100% faster throughput than previous versions, while simultaneously improving accuracy for in-the-wild class and attribute classification.

BriefCam’s unique fusion of computer vision and Deep Learning technologies, together with its patented Synopsis® application, enables video investigators to review hours of video in just minutes and rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest.
BriefCam’s unique fusion of computer vision and Deep Learning technologies, together with its patented Synopsis® application, enables video investigators to review hours of video in just minutes and rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest.

New BriefCam v5.4 key features include:

BriefCam REVIEW | Accelerate Investigations: 

  • Robust multi-camera search capabilities identify men, women, children, vehicles, and lighting changes with speed and precision.

  • Offering 27 classes and attributes, in addition to face recognition, appearance similarity, color, size, speed, path, direction, and dwell time, providing an ever increasing and powerful set of distinct search combinations.

Video analytics solutions are enabling safety and security agencies to realize the full value of their video surveillance resources and enhance safety, security and overall business operations.
Video analytics solutions are enabling safety and security agencies to realize the full value of their video surveillance resources and enhance safety, security and overall business operations.

BriefCam RESPOND | Attain Situational Awareness: 

  • Define dynamic rules for count-based alerts that trigger notifications for a specified number of objects or a concurrent number of objects in a predefined period of time.

  • Accelerate time to target with one-click case creation based on an alert, and rapidly review all daily alert events with a video synopsis in minutes.

Video analytics solutions are enabling safety and security agencies to realize the full value of their video surveillance resources and enhance safety, security and overall business operations.
BriefCam provides the ability to trigger a call to action, bringing relevant events to the forefront and allowing quick review by those individuals who can provide an accurate assessment.
All this technology is packaged into an easy to use, powerful video analytics solution that transforms video surveillance into actionable intelligence.

BriefCam RESEARCH | Derive Operational Intelligence: 

  • Rapidly create and customize interactive, intuitive dashboards with chart suggestions that auto-generate reports and Insight Advisor that prioritizes relevant data points.

  • Leverage visual layers to expose object interactions, dwell time, paths, and activity heatmaps.

  • Dynamically build operational intelligence dashboards from both uploaded video files and VMS-based video data.

BriefCam works seamlessly with third-party products, providing partners and end-users alike with freedom of choice, while delivering a disruptive, scalable and easy to use video content analytics platform.

Stephanie Weagle, BriefCam chief marketing officer
Stephanie Weagle, BriefCam chief marketing officer, accepting a 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award

BriefCam’s Video Content Analytics platform is pleased to be a certified Milestone Systems Platinum Technology partner, a fellow 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winner, and certified Genetec Gold Technology partner.

To date, BriefCam v5.4 has already been recognized with a 2019 Security Sales & Integration MVP Award in the category for Video Surveillance, a 2019 Govies Award in the category for Video Analytics, and a 2019 Secure Campus Award in the category for Video Surveillance Software.

For those attending ISC West 2019, BriefCam will demonstrate the full functionality of v5.4, including real-time face recognition and situational awareness capabilities atin booth #10125.

BriefCam Takes Home the Gold in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program

BriefCam

2018 ASTORS Gold

  • Best Video Analytics Solution

  • BriefCam Video Analytics

 

The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit and intelligence to end users in a variety of government, homeland security and public safety vertical markets.

William "Bill" Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Boston Police Department (BPD) and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), will speak at the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Luncheon at ISC East 2019, on Wednesday, November 20th, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center (Courtesy of Teneo Risk)
Bill Bratton, former police commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Boston Police Department (BPD) and former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), will speak at the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Luncheon at ISC East 2019, on Wednesday, November 20th, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center (Courtesy of Teneo Risk)

The 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program drew an overwhelming response from industry leaders with a record high number of corporate and government nominations received, as well as record breaking ‘ASTORS’ Presentation Luncheon Attendees, with top firms trying to register for the exclusive high – end luncheon and networking opportunity – right up to the event kickoff on Wednesday afternoon, at the ISC East registration!

Over 130 distinguished guests representing National, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Firms, gathered from across North America, Europe and the Middle East to be honored among their peers in their respective fields which included:

2018 ASTORS

  • The Department of Homeland Security
  • The Federal Protective Service (FPS)
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • The Department of Homeland Security
  • The Department of Justice
  • The Security Exchange Commission Office of Personnel Management
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • Viasat, Hanwha Techwin, Lenel, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Verint, Canon U.S.A., BriefCam, Pivot3, Milestone Systems, Allied Universal, Ameristar Perimeter Security and More!

The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program highlighting the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today, to ensure our readers have the information they need to stay ahead of the competition, and keep our Nation safe – one facility, street, and city at a time.

The 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program was Proudly Sponsored by ATI SystemsAttivo NetworksAutomatic SystemsDesktop Alertand Royal Holdings Technologies.

Early Bird Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland SecurityAwards at https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-awards/.

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Comprehensive List of Categories Include:

Access Control/ Identification Personal/Protective Equipment Law Enforcement Counter Terrorism
Perimeter Barrier/ Deterrent System Interagency Interdiction Operation Cloud Computing/Storage Solution
Facial/IRIS Recognition Body Worn Video Product Cyber Security
Video Surveillance/VMS Mobile Technology Anti-Malware
Audio Analytics Disaster Preparedness ID Management
Thermal/Infrared Camera Mass Notification System Fire & Safety
Metal/Weapon Detection Rescue Operations Critical Infrastructure
License Plate Recognition Detection Products And Many Others!

Don’t see a Direct Hit for your Product, Agency or Organization?

Submit your category recommendation for consideration to Michael Madsen, AST Publisher at: mmadsen@americansecuritytoday.com.

2018 Champions Edition

See the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Champions Edition – ‘Best Products of 2018 ‘ Year in Review’ for in-depth coverage of the outstanding products and services of firms receiving American Security Today’s 2018‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards.’

Enter Early to Maximize Media Coverage of your Products and Services at Kickoff, and Get the Recognition Your Organization Deserves!

And be sure to Register Early for the 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Luncheon at ISC East 2019 to ensure your place at this limited- space event!

2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Presentation Luncheon
2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Presentation Luncheon

Why the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program?

American Security Today’s comprehensive Annual Homeland Security Awards Program is organized to recognize the most distinguished vendors of physical, IT, port security, law enforcement, and first responders, in acknowledgment of their outstanding efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One City at a Time.’

Why American Security Today?

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 70,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

The old traditional security marketplace has been covered by a host of security publications that have changed little over many years.

American Security Today brings forward a fresh compelling look and read with our customized digital publications that provides our readers with solutions to their challenges.

Our Editorial staff provides a full plate of topics for our AST monthly digital editions, AST Website and AST Daily News Alerts.

The editorial calendar and AST’s high drawing website features 23 different Technology and Marketing Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities and Emergency Response among others.

These sectors are part of the new integration, where these major applications communicate with one another in a variety of solutions to protect our cities and critical infrastructure.

AST has Expanded readership into vital Critical Infrastructure audiences such as Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Water Plants & Dams, Bridges & Tunnels, and other Potential targets of terrorism.

Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – enticing targets for extremist or lone wolf attacks due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.

BriefCam is a leading provider of Deep Learning and Video Synopsis® solutions for rapid video review and search, face recognition, real-time alerting and quantitative video insights.

BriefCam logoBy transforming raw video into actionable intelligence, BriefCam dramatically shortens the time-to-target for security threats while increasing safety and optimizing operations.

BriefCam’s award-winning products are deployed by law enforcement and public safety organizations, government and transportation agencies, major enterprises, healthcare and educational institutions, and local communities worldwide.