Tips From The Top

So you’ve secured your property with state-of-the-art surveillance cameras. But what happens when you actually need to review that surveillance video? While you were away for a two-week vacation, how do you find the moment when a mysterious man in a long black coat tried to break into your car? Do you really have to sit and scan through hours of video?

Meet ella.

Ella is a cloud-based deep learning response that allows you to search your surveillance footage with natural language.

Ella is the brainchild of IC Realtime (ICR) using the technology platform Camio. ICR is a world leader in digital surveillance, providing surveillance technology to residential, commercial, government, and military security markets.

With an ICR box, ella can be connected to your home camera network. It works with the majority of available security cameras, connecting to specified cameras. It reduces surveillance video into “metadata” and sends it to the secure server. The metadata is then evaluated by “Deep Learning,” which converts the data into information you can easily search.

Essentially, ella is Google for your surveillance video, enabling you to say what you want and get what you’re looking for – fast.

Type “man in long black coat,” and you’ll see all the video pieces collected from all the cameras connected to ella that show the man in the long black coat.

Or, better yet, according to IC Realtime CEO Matt Sailor, you can find out which dog is doing his business on your lawn just by typing in “dog.” You can then review footage of all the dogs who cross your lawn, find the offender, and use the footage when you talk to the owner.

In a recent briefing reported by TechHive, IC Realtime CEO Matt Sailor says the average security camera records less than two minutes of anything noteworthy in a 24-hours period. Time and data sorting technology don’t do enough to streamline the process. Ella uses deep learning algorithms and tagged metadata to allow users to find important segments quickly and easily.

Unimportant events are still recorded and then stored as low-resolution, time-lapse digests to save bandwidth.

Ella comes with a list of tags, so you can query camera footage for people, animals, colors, and vehicles right away. Ella can learn and employ specific activity alerts, too, like your kids coming home at curfew, or the pizza delivery guy. The user can train ella to know what’s important and what’s not, using thumbs up and thumbs down.

To learn more about how ella can simplify your surveillance system, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to show you what ella can do.