Camera surveillance technology is constantly improving. Watch a crime scene investigation show or even a police drama from the 90’s and you might find yourself snickering at the grainy and obsolete footage that the director uses to identify a suspect. Jump forward only 10 more years in our movie and entertainment culture and think to yourself “How far away is Minority Report from becoming a reality anyway?" One might find through a bit of Google searching that camera technology of the modern age or 2000’s is already obsolete. Police are using video surveillance almost anywhere. And those traffic cameras you see on the light-pole? They can identify you AND given the right conditions…your cars VIN number.
Camera technologies are merging all the time to include facial recognition with long distance recognition software. There are so many different subsets of camera technology software out in the industry right now that one wonders who might figure out how to put is ALL together. It’s an exciting time to be a part of the camera surveillance industry with it’s strong growth and multiple niches. Marketers are ready to jump on-board the facial recognition wave. Customers and consumers are afraid of it and we’re ready to embrace it’s powerful qualities to assist law enforcement and citizen protection. Here’s only a handful of articles on this very subject.
Doug Patterson, Marketing Director Axial Technologies
