What are video analytics and how can end users successfully implement it into their digital security and surveillance solutions? To broadly define video analytics, it is the ability to understand the events that occur in a scene by the use of multiple cameras. With that said, the digital security and surveillance market is rapidly growing, yet the surveillance systems deployed today are rarely capable of analysis of complex events, also known as video analytics. The main issue is that video surveillance feeds are not being analyzed in real time and therefore cannot assist with the main purpose of the solution - whether that is crime prevention, accident identification, or safety.

Selecting video management software (VMS) can be extremely difficult. There are many factors that go into choosing the proper software platform for your desired project. However there are a number of commercially available software solutions in the market for IP-based video surveillance and these numbers are rapidly increasing. So where do you begin in your selection process?