In today’s world, surveillance cameras are practically everywhere, from government buildings, airports, roadways, retail shops, and corporate offices, to wearable and car-mounted cameras. Given their prevalence, video evidence is now playing a pivotal role in civil and criminal investigations, mediations, and trials.
Often, video footage must be captured from many disparate sources – CCTV cameras, mobile phones, and even street cameras – to develop a more holistic understanding of a crime scene. Just as important, video analytics solutions must comb through hours of footage to identify persons of interest quickly and accurately.
Unfortunately, this process can often take hours or days with traditional VMS systems. This is the power of Rapid Enquiry - a FRS Investigation Portable Device, which swiftly ingests video footage from a variety of cameras and searches for likely suspects in minutes.
By breaking down your security events into cases and monitoring each case independently with cutting-edge facial recognition, Rapid Inquiry helps you investigate any appearances of bad actors to gain situational awareness and understand previous attacks. New powerful case management tools enable you to ingest videos from multiple sources and perform forensic searches on those files to quickly identify potential subjects and persons of interest.
Following a jewelry store robbery during which an unknown man smashed display cases and took items worth millions of dollars, the local police force was faced with two critical challenges – the first was to confirm the thief’s identity, and the second was to map out his route during the week prior to the act. The police began by gathering footage from the 10 CCTV cameras installed in and around the store, focusing on the time of the robbery. Using this footage, they quickly extracted the thief’s face and ran it through their database, successfully identifying the suspect with Oosto’s OnWatch system. Next, they gathered footage from 100 CCTV cameras across the surrounding neighborhood and analyzed hours of recordings using the system’s forensic mode
The ResultsOosto Inquiry processed thousands of hours of footage in a matter of minutes and successfully detected the robber across a number of cameras which clearly mapped out his route. It also identified a second person assisting him, and, as a result, they were both located and apprehended by the police.
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