This guy crawled under a trailer to get to his target…a utility truck. The minute he poked his head up, he was identified by a Remote Guard sitting at one of Pro-Vigil’s Central Surveillance Centers. The second the Remote Guard activated a siren and strobe on a Virtual Guard Station, the intruder ran off the property.
This is a good example that cameras don’t scare people…it’s what you can do with the cameras that send them sprinting off the site. These cameras are on a Virtual Guard Station remotely monitored at Pro-Vigil’s Central Surveillance Center. Once the kids walked past the VGS, a Monitor remotely activated sirens and strobes and the two kids looked like they were competing in a 100 yard dash.
This guys uses the cover of heavy machinery to try to hide himself from the Virtual Guard Station Cameras and the Monitor remotely watching those cameras at Pro-Vigil’s Central Surveillance Center. It is difficult see the guy coming and going and that is the point of this video…even under these circumstances, we don’t miss. Another crime deterred.
Bad news for the thieves…Pro-Vigil is now using thermal cameras. This increases our field of view by about 3x and dramatically increases the contrast between intruders and their surroundings. Pro-Vigil continues to invest in the best technology to bring the best level of service.
At Pro-Vigil headquarters, we keep track of a lot of information – including how much data we’re using by streaming live video to our three surveillance centers. Video uses a LOT of data, and we’re constantly working to reduce how much we use, which simultaneously reduces our carbon footprint, and the load we put on the network as a whole.
When we started monitoring live construction security cameras 4 years ago, we started out using the MJPEG codec to encode our live streams. For about the past two years, we’ve been working to switch to a codec called H.264, which offers an 80% more efficient stream than MJPEG without sacrificing image quality, and is the same technology your TiVo® or iPod/iPhone® uses. We’re finally finished with the transition, and are happy to say that we’re using about half of the bandwidth that we were using a couple of years ago, while effectively doubling our fleet size!
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