Low-cost tool to grab number plate and create database
The Hindu
A video camera that records everything round the clock at a parking lot can be as useful as a security guard there, but not moving even when a 'vehicle of interest' cruises in.
In most of the cases, the footage comes in handy for a post-event analysis, unless, of course, the security staff keep watching the display monitors as keenly as Air Traffic Control staff monitor aircraft movements.
Though a few software packages have been developed in Europe for Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), most of them are unsuitable for Indian conditions, nor are they within the reach of Indian business houses in view of the exorbitant cost of the software and hardware.
Moreover, these packages, totally dependent on cameras, can only capture the images of vehicles moving past the camera. In effect, the user gets a video footage and nothing more.
| Date |
| February 14, 2010 |
| Source |
| The Hindu Article by K. Srinivas Reddy |
Security software for customer safety
Andhra Business Bureau
Regular visitors to hotels could be in for a surprise hereafter, even if they are not VIPs, thanks to the security system installed there!
SenSen Networks, a Networked Video Intelligence (NetVI) solutions provider, launched Net VI/ANPR-1000 and NetVI/ANPR-2000, its first of a suite of NetVI solutions that helps extract security and business intelligence by detecting the relevant events from video streams.
The software comes in handy for customer relations personnel in dealing with VIPs or persons of interest to the business establishment by alerting them with an SMS as soon as their vehicle enters the premises.
"This software helps in keeping a tab on the movement of VIP vehicles and helps in dealing with them specially. Our products are tailor-made according to the needs of our customers," said Subhash Challa, Chief Technology Officer, SenSen Networks Pvt Ltd in the city, on Monday.
| Date |
| February 01, 2010 |
| Source |
| Andhra Business Bureau |
Hi-tech system to track movement of vehicles
Express News Services
For improving security systems in public places, city Police Commissioner AK Khan on Monday launched Automatic Number Plate Recogni t ion (ANPF) system.
According to SenSen Networks that introduced the product, a vehicle's registration number will be captured the moment it travels across the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) system installed on a premises.
A DVR system will do surveillance of an institution both at the entrance and exit points. "The registration number of a vehicle will be captured by the CCTV cameras and its details stored in a database doing away with the need to have a person to sit and do this job," said SenSen Network representatives.
| Date |
| March, 2011 |
iTWire: Swinburne University security camera rollout continues - SenSen People Counting solution being deployed
iTWire
Around a year ago, iTWire reported on a major deployment of IP surveillance cameras at Swinburne University in Melbourne. At that stage, around 300 cameras had been installed. The university has now investigated the use of video analytics. Goetze said there was always an intention to use the cameras for more than security purposes, for example to count the number of people in particular buildings. Several applications were tried and found wanting until Melbourne-based SenSen Networks' People Video Analytics was tested.
The big advantage of this software is that it doesn't require specific camera placement. This means Swinburne is able to count the number of people entering and leaving the library by using a camera 50m from the door and two stories above the ground. Additional cameras located in the stairs on each level of the library allow the software to calculate how many people are on each floor at various times of day. The library was especially keen to gain this information to get more insight into demand patterns.
| Date |
| August 03, 2010 |
| Source |
| iTWire Article by Stephen Withers |
Global Ties
Entrepreneurs
A delayed flight led to a chance meeting of Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. An idea took hold, and today the group helps startups around the world.
Two years ago Subhash Challa, the founder of a Melbourne software company called SenSen Networks, was running out of cash. His main product was tanking, and he feared that he would have to shut down his four-year-old outfit. Instead he asked for help from someone on the other side of the globe, a veteran California entrepreneur he had met only once: Satish Gupta, a member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, or TiE, a nonprofit group in Silicon Valley.
Gupta was well versed in SenSen's market, software for monitoring security cameras, so Challa, 36, had made the right contact. Recalling their early meetings in Fremont, California, Challa says Gupta "tore apart my product line" and outlined how he could restructure the company and raise $1 million in funding. Since then each of them has made several trips between Australia and California.
| Date |
| July 23, 2007 |
| Source |
| Entrepreneurs Article by Lalita Aloor Amuthan |