This actually looks good. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sensity-systems-focuses-security-without-120000745.html "Sensity’s Security Without Surveillance solution runs on the NetSense platform, which is installed in conjunction with LED lighting systems outdoors or in large spaces such as airports or shopping malls. By integrating NetSense-enabled lights, video sensors, and distributed analytics to create a Light Sensory Network for public safety and security, lighting owners can use real-time data analytics to receive alerts on potential security threats as they happen. The solution is configurable, ranging from storing no video and just reporting security events, to storing time-bounded segments of video while reporting security events, minimizing data collection while maximizing situational awareness. This alleviates the need to have security staff manually monitor and review full video feeds 24x7, store volumes of video that captures both normal daily life and potential security events." These are the people who made the news a while back for embedding the surveillance in the LED bulbs themselves, thus providing true blanket coverage in the airport, hospital, mall, etc.. The only dark spots in the surveillance are, well, literally dark. I'm wondering whether this focus on privacy is in response to the (admittedly mild) backlash amidst all the other coverage. Note that they *do* provide the means to upfit the system for true, traditional surveillance: "In addition, to help customers easily transition toward our privacy-enabled solution, Sensity also offers video archival application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow data owners to retrieve video data/stream buffers from the distributed video system and save or organize them for future forensic analysis, or to destroy them in compliance with their own organization’s privacy policy." If most customers forego the API and additional software modules, it sounds very VRM-y. If not, it's a *real* good PR job. (For me "Very VRM-y" isn't limited to active business engagement. It also includes systems that intentionally do not routinely engage, provided those systems are designed to limit or eliminate collection personal data. A VRM business model is more valuable in a world where genuine intentcasting is not competing with synthesized intentcasting. Non-engaged, privacy-enhancing systems contribute to the value of VRM, thus are very VRM-y. IMHO, anyway.) -- T.Rob T.Robert Wyatt, Managing partner IoPT Consulting, LLC +1 704-443-TROB (8762) Voice/Text +44 (0) 8714 089 546 Voice |
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