Ipsotek was established in 2001 and is currently headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in the Middle East.
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Ipsotek is an organisation that specialises in Video Content Analysis (VCA) , also known as Video Content (VA) or Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA).
Notable Installations
Notable Ipsotek installations are The London Eye, The O2 Arena, Australian Parliament House, Transport for London, Highways Agency, Colt and Belfast Airport.
Video Analytics Industry
The Video Analytics industry was estimated to be worth $7.5bn in 2012 and is forecasted to reach $21bn by 2020 according to Homeland Security Marketing Research report.
Typical use cases for this technology according to British Security Industry Association(BSIA) are:
These use cases are applicable across a broad spectrum of industries including transport, retail, energy, critical infrastructure and government.
Technology
Ipsotek uses software combined with purpose-built hardware to provide intelligent video surveillance. Metadata relating to people/vehicle movement, event detection and counting statistics are created and analysed (including raising alerts) at the camera network “edge” or centrally. See published paper "Evaluation of motion-based algorithms for automated crowd management " for theoretical rationalisation and examples of how this technology can be used in crowd management. Scene object tracking and camera network mapping based on image track start and end points, or Scenario-based detection (patented), enables precise targeting of behaviour analytics over multiple cameras.