The fast-changing world of CCTV cameras

April 2025

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The fast-changing world of CCTV cameras

The world of CCTV cameras is changing very fast. Earlier, CCTV cameras were used as postmortem (what happened last night - play back). Today, the Purpose of CCTV cameras has changed. And, in this vast number of scenarios, check out which are the ones where you can benefit from using CCTV cameras today.

  1. Facial Recognition Technology (FRT)
  2. ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) / LPR (Licence plate recognition technology with speed recognition
  3. Human detection / Vehicle detection.
  4. Object counting from camera
  5. Mishandling / rough use
  6. Inside & outside school busses / trucks / tempos etc
  7. Counting persons entering and leaving your premises
  8. Thermal cameras

We can go on and on – but the truth is that CCTV cameras have brought in new features which make them valuable in today’s world. CCTV cameras enhance electronic security, ensuring that Thane

Practical uses of technology

If you thought Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is just another technical feature, here’s a set of options in which it can be leveraged:

  • Marking Attendance with FRT
  • Marking attendance and/ or access control
  • Creating whitelist / blacklist / VIP list / Members list of people and sending alerts when specific member enters or leaves the premises
  • Security guard patrolling to be monitored, ensuring they are awake through the night, needing them to face in front of different cameras across the campus. Auto reports / auto alerts if not done with the required frequency
  • Safety Gear checks in construction sites/ factories if not worn by any worker, auto alert to site supervisor
  • Marking attendance in mass scale. For example, any one classroom, frequency as set (example: once every 15 mins). If any student leaves the class, auto alert to parent & principal
  • Across different locations, attendance can be marked on central server with tracking of what time where in and where out – and which location/s
  • Can be used in combination with swing barriers, turnstiles, electro-magnetic locks
  • Expression identification - happy, sad, angry, crying (in sales offices, to identify how salesmen handled customers)
  • How many males / how many females in the room over a fixed timeline
  • Age group of people walking in
  • Counting entry with specific parameters eg: how many people entered with specs / moustache / beard
  • In retail outlet: how many people left with shopping bag
  • School Bus: timelines of when child entered and what time exited the bus, with auto alerts to parents

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