Why facial recognition is an important part of your security program
Facial recognition has boomed in the last few years. Its uses vary greatly; from more innocuous, everyday applications such as unlocking your mobile phone, through to high-end surveillance programs used by top government agencies around the world.
Understanding the capabilities of facial recognition is the first step in determining whether it could benefit your organisation’s security program. Read on to learn more and see if this technology is right for you.
How does facial recognition work?
Facial recognition is a biometric technology. It scans a face in a photograph, video, or real life and looks for distinguishable features. Those features are then compared to a large database of known faces, until the software can find a match.
Alternatively, rather than using a database, some facial recognition software allows you to input physical descriptors. It can then quickly sort through a large amount of footage or images and find an accurate match.
How facial recognition can boost security & operations
There are many potential benefits to facial recognition software, including significantly boosting security in an organisation. This can occur in two ways:
- Deterring crime, before anything happens
Having surveillance set up, such as CCTV cameras, is proven to deter people from committing crime. That’s because when people know they’re being watched, and can easily be identified through footage, they’re less likely to do the wrong thing.
With the right license, you can set up a security camera to enable facial recognition technology. This can boost the positive impact of your surveillance measures even further.
- Making it easier to identify and track down people of interest
- Provide alerts with people of interest re-enter an area or building
Even with good security measures in place, breaches can happen. Vandalism, theft, break-ins – whatever it is that’s occurred at your property, facial recognition technology can significantly cut down the time it takes to identify and track down a person of interest.
This can be handy whether you have footage for your facial recognition technology to sift through, or physical descriptors based on witness statements.
Features of Wilson Security’s facial recognition technology
Wilson Security uses cutting edge AI-powered facial recognition to help organisations improve their security and quickly identify persons of interest. The features of our technology include the following:
Create watch lists.
Authorised users can easily build and manage multiple watch lists, adding to it from uploaded images or recorded footage. You can even edit the retention periods of watch list profiles, for additional security.
Enable watch list alarms.
You can set up alarms that are triggered when a match from your watch list is identified through your surveillance footage.
License cameras for facial recognition technology.
We can work with you to license and set up facial recognition technology on your existing surveillance camera network. If your current system isn’t compliant, we can also recommend alternative options for you.
Search based on physical descriptors.
You don’t need to have a comprehensive database set up to identify a match. Instead, you can input physical descriptors into our facial recognition technology, and let the AI do the work.
Easy installation.
Our technology is incredibly scalable and easy to deploy, to ensure you can get the benefits without unnecessary headache.
Facial recognition technology can help you cut down response times for identifying persons of interest and feel confident in your organisation’s ability to mitigate security breaches. Talk to Wilson Security about how we can assist with bolstering your security program – get in contact with us today.
