CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ SECURITY - PROSEGUR INTEGRA ’ 179 discrepancies . Though cameras have long been part of the security playbook , artificial intelligence and machine learning are uncovering new ways to process the visual data they return . “ We ’ re using machine learning algorithms to automatically learn the difference between a normal movement pattern and an abnormal one in a surveillance camera scene ,” says de Suñer . “ The differences are detected at a pixel level , and in real time . The technology doesn ’ t know if it ’ s a person or a bird or a car – if the image differs from the previous one in a suspicious
way , it will be flagged to our operator .”
When an incident does occur , POPS , the recently introduced Prosegur Operations Platform application , provides security officers with a suite of tools . These include bi-directional communications between the ground and command centre , access to operational procedures and reports for the site owner , all of which serve to integrate the different parts of the security operation . “ One main benefit is that we can , at any point in time , send alerts to / from the Smart Centre . If there is a fire two blocks away from
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