Feeling Software’s Omnipresence 3D Surveillance System Allows for the Simultaneous Monitoring of Hundreds of Thousands of CCTV Cameras
3D Mapping Technology Creates First System-Wide Monitoring and Event Management Capability for Large-Scale Security Surveillance Environments
Montreal, Quebec, Canada; August 25, 2009 – Large scale surveillance systems, like those found in airports, train stations, and city-wide installations, create an overwhelming amount of visual content. By adding context to that content through advanced 3D mapping technology, Omnipresence enables a security professional to understand a situation, seen through hundreds of cameras, at one glance.
“The issue is that simple tasks, like following a suspect from one camera to another, become incredibly complex in a system with many cameras,” says Joshua Koopferstock, Director of Marketing at Feeling Software. “If the suspect walks off the left edge of the frame in camera #33, which of the other fifty cameras do you look at to continue to watch that person? Where is camera #33 in relation to camera #12? Omnipresence solves problems like these and makes the surveillance system truly scalable.”
Through technology partnerships with surveillance industry leaders including Pelco, Genetec, and Milestone Systems, Omnipresence integrates with the video management system (VMS) to receive the live and archived video feeds. These videos are projected inside of a 3D map of the facility in their real locations. With its scalable architecture, Omnipresence allows a security professional to visualize and optimize their use of an unlimited number of security cameras over vast areas (entire facilities and cities).
“City-wide and large scale surveillance is one of the biggest areas of interest in security today,” says Christian Laforte, president of Feeling Software. “We saw a way to apply our expertise in 3D graphics to solve real problems that security experts are facing as they try to scale up their systems.”
Feeling Software will be unveiling this technology with an interactive demonstration on site at its booth at ASIS 2009 (booth #4231) in Anaheim, California.
About Feeling Software
Feeling Software is driven to advance security technology for improved public safety and private security. With its 3D and Mobile technologies, Feeling Software broadens the reach of the video surveillance ecosystem to new levels of accessibility and context.
Montreal-based Feeling Software was founded in 2005 by brothers Christian and Guillaume Laforte.
Prior to developing technology for security, Feeling Software applied its expertise in 3D graphics to contracts with technology leaders such as Google, Adobe and Epic Games in the geospatial and gaming industries. In 2002, Christian was the recipient of an Academy Award as a key member of the team at Alias-Wavefront that developed Maya, used today by the majority of the film industry.