BRS Labs Video Surveillance System vs. Traditional Technology
Two years ago, BRS Labs launched AISight, a video surveillance system that turned to be a revolutionary product in the growing industry. The world’s first machine intelligence is able to decide autonomously what abnormal activity is, by emulating learning and memory processes of the human brain. Today, it still beats its competitors by using the system based on reason, instead of the traditional, rules-based technology.

The recent escalation of terrorist attacks and anti-social behavior that constantly increases global concern over the public security, leads us to the question if existing surveillance technologies are capable to prevent serious threats to our society. If we need to give up some of our privacy, by accepting to live a life under cameras in order to be much safer, than we can expect some steady prevention. It is great to be able to detect a criminal by using a recorded data, but sometimes that cannot make up for lost.
The surveillance of some complex environments (such as airports, railroads, subways, office buildings…) which are covered with hundreds of cameras, could be a real nightmare for security personnel. Even though they get some serious help from different types of advanced Video Analytics technology, there are certain limitations that need to be overcome.
This traditional technology is based on rules that are preprogrammed, so logically, it cannot be adapted to any situations and environments. Furthermore, rules-based video surveillance systems very often come up with false alarms (even a shadow or branches are possible to be detected as a threat). BRS Labs‘ product offers something fundamentally different. Based on the Behavioral Analytics technology, AISight is a software which offers actionable intelligence, enabling much more video data to be monitored at the same time.
What is very important, this breakthrough technology is capable to constantly learn on behaviors, developing learned patterns for different groups of objects, without any human interference. This means that the BRS Labs‘ system functions autonomously when it is ones installed. Moreover, according to experiences, it can be installed pretty fast and easily, regardless of the number of cameras.
Immediately after the installation, the system starts learning - it observes a scene through the eye of each camera (it monitors every object in the camera’s view and starts recognizing sizes, shapes, colors…), then learns what kinds of behavior are regular (knowledge is accumulated over time) and finally, responds to, what it decides to mark as abnormal behavior.
New products that change the entire perspective of industry are usually followed by skepticism. However, I chose to believe that this one can bring us a much higher level of security. Although it had been developed for 4 years before BRS Labs launched it in 2009, the Behavioral Analytics is still a young technology that has a great potential to grow.