But everything could change and I confess that I am looking forward to what may happen this year, in which a series of video equipment will be massively presented that promise to be the alternative against false alarms: cameras with built-in video processing system, which promise to perform the analysis of the signal in the same capture unit, to avoid sending erroneous information to the system (the cameras are completely intelligent and will be able to determine what is a real target and what is simply part of uncontrollable elements, such as the weather, movement of trees, small animals, among others).
An executive of a well-known manufacturer of this type of solutions commented that traditionally, to reduce the number of false alarms, companies chose to change the configuration of the sensitivity of the detector devices, which ended up opening vulnerabilities that these systems supposedly had to stop. For this manager, the problem originates in the fact that systems designed to operate inside buildings are usually installed outdoors. On this fact it is based to say that the solution is intelligent systems.
I'm somewhat skeptical. I have been in this industry for five years and I still do not know of a solution that definitively ends this problem and that is within reach of all pockets, a particularly sensitive fact in Latin America. Smart solutions will be able to correct one of the weaknesses of video-based motion detector systems, in which when a scene was disturbed, for example, by weather aspects it could not easily detect a real target. By doing the analysis with their built-in processing power, such cameras could legitimately separate real events from non-real ones.
I'll wait and see. I just want to think that these solutions will reach Latin America and that the bulk of the customers will be able to install them. Is it too much to ask?
