Video analytics software for smart buildings and retail

Video analytics, or CCTV analytics software, is the process of taking large amounts of data captured on CCTV and turning it into intelligent data. Business can use this to shape its customer experience, enhance its operations and achieve its objectives.

Find out more in our complete guide to video analytics.

Facit’s video analytics solutions use AI and machine learning modelling to analyse behaviour. This BI (business intelligence) is extracted from the CCTV analytics software and compiled into dashboards and reports.

Businesses can then use this to make data backed decisions, increasing operational efficiency and profitability.

Our solutions include Smart Count, Smart Queue, Smart Zone, Trolley Analytics, and Slip and Fall.

There are many ways you can extract more value from installed cameras, including:

• Improve health and safety monitoring in remote and high-risk environments: In 2019/20, the estimated cost of injuries and ill health from working conditions was £18.8 billion – this can be reduced through video analytics solutions – read more in our blog “Maximise CCTV data to improve health and safety”.

• Intelligent loss prevention: With the rise in retail shrinkage losses, traditional methods of loss prevention are becoming less effective when used on their own. Through Smart Zone and Trolley Analytics software, this can be reduced – read more in our blog here.

• Reduce loss of customers due to slow queues: Slow check-out queues directly affect customer loyalty and retailers’ profits, and by implementing technology which effectively monitors queues, you can reduce customer frustration – read more in our blog here.

• Deliver better efficiencies: Our Smart Count software in a Manhattan residential apartment block tracks how many individuals are in the lobbies and public spaces of residential spaces,  enabling operational teams to have full insight to adjust lighting and heating systems that meet the needs of those in the building. Find out more in our blog “Smart cities: How technology can deliver better efficiencies and improve our quality of life”.

Facit offers Smart Count, Smart Queue, Smart Zone, Trolley Analytics, and Slip and Fall video analytics solutions.

It transforms a business’ operations. Whether its increasing efficiency, saving money or providing a better service to customers or building tenants, video analytics solutions will increase operational efficiency and profitability.

Video analytics uses AI and machine learning to detect patterns, behaviours and events. For example:

• Count how many people enter a building – Smart Count

• Analyse queue length and wait time – Smart Queue

• Identify when a person enters a specific area – Smart Zone

• Calculate how many trollies are being used in a store – Trolley Analytics

• Alert an operator when someone has had an accident - Slip and Fall

The data gathered from analytics will enable businesses to generate intelligent data and business insights, to increase operational efficiency and profitability.

Minimal configuration is required and it is easily scalable across locations.

Facit uses legacy CCTV infrastructure, such as security surveillance equipment. It is a cost-effective solution and is installed remotely - Facit does not need to visit every site and will not disrupt operations.

Once the software has been tested and optimised, it can be quickly deployed to multiple locations, and Facit will ensure smooth operations with ongoing maintenance.

Video analytics provides a variety of opportunities for value for money including:

• Increasing sales and enhance the customer experience by understanding customers’ behaviour and adapting a facility, such as store, to suit their needs.

• Increasing operational efficiency and profitability through understanding how a building is performing. Analyse floor-by-floor occupancy to reduce energy bills for tenants, redesign space based on actual occupancy to maximise its use.

• Reducing theft and prevent trolley pushouts, whilst also tracking usage to understand how many trollies a store needs and managing staff duties to improve access to trollies in peak hours.

Find out more in our blog where we discuss theft reaching record levels and how retailers are turning to intelligent loss prevention technologies.

We can detect objects and persons, but we do not identify and save any personally identifiable information. Our software does not perform any feature based tracking.

Our software is optimised to run on AXIS hardware:

• Camera Model: P3265, P3267, P3268 and Q9307

• Chipset: ARTPEC-8

• Firmware: 11.1.72 (P3265-LV & P3265-LVE)