White Paper: Outdoor Video Security: Nine Success Factors

The effectiveness and costs of automated outdoor video surveillance solutions vary widely. This white paper is intended for people who manage and implement outdoor surveillance solutions for perimeters or buffer zones, discusses:

• Sources of nuisance alarms and how to prevent them
• Security violations that human operators commonly miss and how to reveal them
• The value of obtaining precise location information about the target
• The effect of camera range and detection accuracy on overall solution costs

The goal of outdoor video security is to detect an intrusion in time to prevent or minimize harm. Factors that commonly thwart this goal include unreliable results, imprecise information about the intruder's location, and high costs.