by Brianna Crandall — July 9, 2014—Eagle Eye Networks recently announced the availability of its first annual video surveillance report. This year’s report covers the results of multiple 250-500 respondent surveys of video surveillance and information technology (IT) professionals from late 2013 to April 2014. The survey topics spanned targeted use of video surveillance systems, cloud video surveillance, IT’s role, and view of video surveillance system vulnerability.
“More than two-thirds of companies now plan to expand their use of video surveillance systems beyond security and into operations improvement,” said Dean Drako, President and CEO at Eagle Eye Networks. “Additionally, there is a deepening involvement of their IT personnel in many aspects of video surveillance activities.”
The top reasons respondents cited for planning to expand camera use were “improving sales or customer service” (51%); and “improving general employee productivity” (44%); “analyzing customer behavior/patterns” (32%); “reducing injury risk” (30%); and “get compliance with process or work hours” (17%). Respondents were allowed to select two choices.
The findings from the industry-wide independent, anonymous survey cover:
Business Plans for Video Surveillance
- Video surveillance usage plans: protection versus operations improvement
- Video surveillance operations improvement analytics expected to be deployed
Cloud Video Surveillance
- Video recording location preference: on-premise versus the cloud
- Top drivers for cloud-managed video surveillance
- Top hurdles to cloud-based video surveillance system deployment
- Top frustrations with current video surveillance systems
IT Section
- Portion of IT folks now involved in video surveillance
- IT-specific role/duties in video surveillance
- Video surveillance system vulnerability to cyber attack
The full survey results are available in Eagle Eye’s “Cloud Video Surveillance Report 2014.”
Texas-based Eagle Eye Networks delivers what it calls the first on-demand cloud-based security and operations video management system (VMS) providing both cloud and on-premise recording, in conjunction with a cloud video API. Eagle Eye offers secure, encrypted recording, camera management, mobile viewing and alerts—all from a 100% cloud-managed platform. The Eagle Eye Security Camera Video Management System supports a broad array of Internet protocol (IP) and analog cameras uses Intelligent Bandwidth Management, making it easy to deploy at single and multiple sites. The API platform uses the Eagle Eye Big Data Video Framework, with time-based data structures used for indexing, search, retrieval and analysis of the live and archived video. Eagle Eye Networks sells through authorized reseller and installation partners.
