Smart Video Surveillance: Digital Technology vs. Tradition Analog Systems

摘要

Over the past few years, the word se-curity has assumed the specific con-notation of homeland security in the public mind. But security activities - and budgets - stretch far beyond fighting terrorism. In fact, the private sector's aggregate security budgets dwarf public spending. Over the past decade, video security has been deployed by governments and private institutions to combat street crime, by corporations to detect and interdict employee theft and shoplifting and by casinos to uncover cheating, or fraud - to cite just a few examples.