Re: Commercial Alarm - help

[J. Sloud <jsloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Oct 2005 22:20:26 -0700, "Al Colombo"
<securitymission@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Well, although false alarms are common (quite often caused by the end
>user) and police apprehension rates are low, the primary value of
>having one in a home is 1) to let the homeowner know that someone's
>inside the house, and 2) to hopefully frighten the perp off.
>
>Intelligent video is great when the homeowner is away, as they will
>detect motion, record video, send a frame or two to the homeowner's
>office e-mail box, but it will do very little to warn the homeowner in
>the middle of the night when a perp has compromised a lock and is now
>headed into the living on the first floor below.
>

Al, that's not intelligent video.  I'm talking about software
processing to detect humans.  I.e. VideoIQ or ObjectVideo.  I would
have assumed you would have researched the possible trickle down of
this technology into residential applications.