An Eye on Video Surveillance: Today’s Peeping Tom’s

Physical aka Video Surveillance undergoes a paradigm shift in India

Security has remained one of the major issues in India. Even though public security and asset protection has been one of the top priorities for governments and organizations, the changing dynamics and complexities of the metropolis and cities need a closer and critical re-look at the security.
Against the multiple terrorist attacks and violent crimes, the advancing criminal intelligence system, and increasing dwelling of infrastructure across different cities, the demand for smart and intelligent security systems such as videosurveillance systems in India has seen an increasing trend over the last few years.
First of all let’s look back into the history of surveillance. The video security industry is rapidly growing. In order to understand the future of our industry, we need to understand where we started. This infographic highlights some of the key
events of the history of video surveillance.

Challenges of Safe and Secure City Formulation
India’s vibrant democracy and healthy amalgamation of the socio-economic and cultural diversity is reflected in its cities. This also gives rise to complex and interrelated challenges that impend the adoption of the safe and secure cities vision. Various interconnected factors such as the urbanization, crime rate, socio-economic landscape, crime against women and children, traffic congestion, tourism, cybercrime, etc. drive the need for a robust security system.

Urbanization and crime rate
India is still growing and still under urbanization. According to the Agglomeration
Index, an alternative measure of urban concentration, the share of India’s population living in areas with urban features in 2011 was over 55 per cent. And thus crime rates are also prevailing. To keep check surveillance is necessary however it is impossible to be everywhere. The States such as such as Delhi and Kerala, where high-density of urban population is correlating to high-crime rates, need immediate actions for transformation. CCTVs can make all the difference when comes to slashing the crime rates.

Socio-economic landscape
Financial and economic hubs such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram and Hyderabad and political centres such as Delhi attract more number of crimes and are more susceptible to terrorist attacks. These cities need immediate measures to create robust security framework. While other cultural sites also needed to be guarded to protect the history and culture of the nation.

Crime against women and children
Crime against women and children is the biggest issue for administration. To curb the crime rates and to make our cities safer for people it is necessary to adopt advance technologies.

Traffic Congestion
Widening of cities is resulting in road building, but even so traffic congestion is still a big problem in India. This brings an array of negative impacts including economic loss through delays, vehicle emissions, and increased fuel consumption. New advanced technologies can be used to help curb this problem.

Tourism
India has a vast history and so the tourism spots. World wide visitors visit India based on safety environment too. Therefore cities are also opting for intelligent systems and CCTVs and mobile apps.

Cyber Risks
One of the downsides of cutting-edge technology is the newly emerging, more complex and significantly threatening cyber risks - Cybersecurity attacks have increased exponentially in the last few years. India has already started experiencing cyber-attacks, and it’s going to escalate more and more in the future. Surveillance systems play a key role in identifying and preventing these threats to urban cities.On issue of challenges Yogesh B. Dutta, COO, CP Plus says “Lack of education about surveillance in general is a challenge. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions surrounding surveillance that need to be addressed and that can be done only through education. With the government’s Make in India initiative on the run, the challenges are gradually fading away. Processes are becoming streamlined, and with the government’s emphasis on a Digital India, various initiatives are being taken to educate and train officials, which are, in turn, paving the path for a brighter future. Therefore, opportunities are on a rise”.

Indian Video Surveillance Market
The security industry (hardware, software and services) in India will continue to grow and projected to reach $1.24 billion, from expected revenue of $1.12 billion in 201615, up 10.6 percent from $1.01 billion last year.

The video surveillance market in India has increased tremendously over the recent years, especially in CCTV, which is expected to reach $952.94 million by 2016, with a CAGR of 32.49% from 2011-2016. Furthermore, India’s video surveillance market is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 13% from 2016 to 2022 The security systems sector in India can broadly be divided into four main categories: Alarm systems, access control, detector and scanners, and CCTV.

The biggest segment in India market in terms of volume is CCTV. According to the market research it is more than 50% while other segment is other half.

Market Trends
Growing awareness: Various Industrial verticals are day-by-day adopting smart solutions to enhance and scale up their productiveness. Also government is also having various schemes under smart city project which is creating awareness among citizens.

Shift towards IP Surveillance: In India, traditionally the analog based CCTV surveillance systems are preferred; however, recent trends indicate a shift towards digitalized, network-based IP Surveillance systems. Sophisticated capabilities of digitization, remote surveillance, open sourcing, video analytics, and full-integration
ability as well as declining costs are making the IP Surveillance system more and more affordable, desirable and a future-proof solutions.

Lack of standardization: As the Surveillance industry is not so old, still there is
lack of framework and other infrastructure to oversee the developing vertical. Also
lack of standard is causing integrations, communication and collaboration between
consumers and products.

Customers’ preference: Rapidly growing customers’ preference for integrated
solutions not only includes setting up security infrastructure, but also involves
back-end analytics and maintenance of infrastructure. Furthermore, it is leading to
novel emerging business models, where provision of service rather than equipment sale is offered – where customers pay a monthly rent to the vendor for the maintenance of their entire security framework rather than incurring capital investment or Operations and Maintenance (O&M) costs.

Players in the Indian Market
There are various player catering to surveillance market and have fair share in
the industry. According to them many states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, and
Delhi are forefront of video surveillance. However, many Tier-II and Tier-III cities
as well have implemented high-tech safety solutions and are becoming lighthouse
examples to inspire other cities.

CP Plus is one of the leading industry players in the field of Physical security. They have tailored solutions for safe & smart city, banking, education, healthcare, hospitality, real estate, retail, transport and police.
• Body worn solution with NPRS for security forces on field duty
• Mobile DVR solutions for monitoring live feed while in vehicles
• Fish eye cameras that substitute for multiple cameras for a 360 degree view
• 4K for superior image clarity
• IP cameras with Edge Analytics
• The versatile UNI+ Technology that offers compatibility across all HD formats.
Yogesh B. Dutta, COO, CP Plus says, “Our company has consistently been
India’s No.1 security & surveillance brand for the past 6 years; it presently holds the
largest market share in the industry. Globally, we’ve been the youngest and fastest
to enter the world Top 4 and Asia Top 2 security & surveillance brand”.
Another player in the industry is Axis Communications which is run by Sudhindra
Holla. As a Country Manager he says that there are still challenges that industry
is facing and Axis Communication have those kinds of solutions which are perfect
for different situations.

According to him the challenges are, “The adoption of advanced technologies in
surveillance is the biggest trend to look out for. Consumers are no longer interested
in low cost, general purpose cameras. They want highly sophisticated solutions,
such as thermal imaging, low-light receptor, advanced sensors and facial identification
etc. Small and Medium Business (SMB) owners are much more aware of their
security needs than ever before. They install the medium scale systems to secure
their premises to avoid any untoward instances.

“However, the biggest challenge is changing the mindset of the citizens. Low
quality CCTV cameras are not capable of detecting faces and license plates- the
main requirement for law enforcement in their investigation. It is critical to raise
this issue and generate awareness about the benefits of using high resolution cameras
and software”. He adds.

On the other hand, well known name in the industry Honeywell is highly
engaged in government projects. Honeywell is engaged with 14 cities in India to
make them smart and secure, including Bhubaneswar, Aurangabad, and 11 cities
in Madhya Pradesh. Its roadmap is to continue to develop state-of-the-art products
and solutions targeted towards key market segments and verticals.

Netgear has also started in this vertical with its product called Arlo security
camera and is focusing purely on online business, creating awareness through magazine ads and want to get involved in government projects.

Opportunities
Indian cities have increasing started relying on video surveillance to solve crime. Across India, police officials reel off cases where CCTVs have made all the difference
in identifying offenders and speeding up investigations.
High growth in video surveillance market

High level of security concerns and increasing rate of adoption of security systems are creating exponential growth in surveillance market. It has also created enormous market opportunities for the vendors and installers.
Huge expansion of IP surveillance market

The ability to allow integration with wireless technologies, remote access, video analytics and the rapidly declining costs of IP Surveillance systems are driving the shift
from analog to IP-based solutions. 68% of the respondents stated that their organization already installed IP. Furthermore, 16 % respondents voiced that the organizations certainly upgrade to IP, while about 32 % stated the organization may be upgrade to IP Surveillance if the solution in cost-effective.

Multitude of features
Even with increasing potential threats, new technologies have opened up tremendous
opportunities for organizations and end-users in terms of options for their
increasingly specific needs such as cameras that can work in challenging physical
environment like low-light conditions or large spaces. The cutting-edge features
–mobile access, PTZ smart controls or 4K resolution – are most important to security
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􀀠Sri Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Sri Kashi Vishwanaath Mandir, is one of the most visited temples in Varanasi with millions coming for ‘darshan’ every year. It has also been a constant target for terrorist attacks; hence the data availability for post event analysis was paramount. CCTV
was required for crowd management, pilferage, and to prevent nuisance and damage
done by the visiting crowd. As the area was quite vast, the following systems were used:
• Hikvision Analog HD DVR, with WD Purple drives 2TB, used existing video wires where new wiring was not possible. These were established at multiple points.
• Analog PTZ were replaced in IP Speed domes.
• Interconnection of the devices we done by single mode optical fibre using Gpon adapter and layer 3 switching.
• Hikvision NVRs with 4TB WD Purple drives and video controllers were established at the control room, which maintain set of recordings and display the same.
After the installations, there have been hardly one service call in a month – which is a huge reduction, as prior to this, the temple had one person stationed continuously.

Gandhinagar Police curb criminal activities by 30%

The police department always faced with the challenge to get to know about the crime scene and respond in timely manner, as the control room operations had a manual interface, which was time consuming.
• Around 240 CCTV cameras have been installed, around three are equipped with face recognition.
• The CCTV cameras have been integrated with four-layered structure.
• A map data system displays where officers are located at any given time of their shift.
• CCTV cameras also monitor the movements of PCR vehicles such as location and halting points.
• GPS helps decrease response times to emergency calls. The deployment of CCTV cameras has helped in managing the traffic, crowd management and nabbing criminals quickly. The four-layered system has helped in cutting response time from 22-26
minutes to 4-6 minutes over the past three months and reduce the criminal activities by 30%.

Nanded keeps its city safe and criminals in check
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􀀠The city wanted to address the following concerns: early warnings for preventing
disasters, efficient monitoring for better governance, better traffic management and
crime prevention and control.
A total of 104 high-resolution, night-vision, fixed and PTZ Axis cameras were installed. The installed cameras included AXIS P1354, a fixed day and night camera, and AXIS Q6035-E, a robust outdoor camera with HDTV 1080p, 20x optical zoom and high-speed pan/tilt performance for coverage of wide areas and great detail when zooming in.
It has also helped to combat and resolve cases of violence in the city. Overall, NWCMC and Nanded Police have not only succeeded in securing the residents, they have also improved the city’s civic situation and administration.

Airports Authority of India prevents possible threats
AAI is faced with daunting to manage security, cyber threats and surveillance together. AAI needs to focus on strengthening the security of vital installations and airports.
AAI has deployed NetApp’s storage platform that provides cutting edge video analytics at its 12 airports. Aligned with its existing roadmap, the NetApp Video Surveillance
Storage platform (VSS) is designed to support video monitoring and connect the 12 airports in real-time to Committee of Secretaries on Aircraft Hijack, an apex government body situated at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Concerns over security and terrorism have driven the creation of massive video surveillance infrastructure — increasing the demand for video storage. With the deployment of VSS, NetApp provides highly efficient systems to manage world-class density and scalability of big data at AAI airports.
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