Videonetics with its ‘SAJAG’ Pandemic Management Suite empowering security operators

Videonetics with the spirit of innovation and excellence combines rich experience and undaunted ambition to make a sense of surveillance.  The company provides an end-to-end solution for a wide range of applications. Videonetics has taken an oath to make the world a safer, smarter, happier place. In a chat with VARINDIA, Avinash J Trivedi, VP - Business Development, Videonetics Technology has expressed his thoughts about the key security trends in this unprecedented time, their key security technologies, how they have geared up for the current situation etc.

What are the security trends that you are observing in India at present? 

This unprecedented pandemic has put every industry across the globe to the test, as countries race to get the virus under control. As we see the world begin to vaccinate against COVID-19, the public and private sectors will remain vigilant for following protocols in 2021.  However, security concerns are still a major force driving end users to spend on security, regardless of verticals and even pandemic. And to address these challenges, some of key trends will be following in 2021 as follows:

1. Artificial Intelligence based solutions: 
Artificial Intelligence based solutions is still trending and will continue to be transformative in security industry. AI is making it possible for businesses to engage with actionable intelligence, as well as providing security departments with data to spot potential issues or threats before they arise.

2. A significant focus on Cybersecurity:
We at Videonetics are strongly focused on ‘Highly Secured’ offerings and have embedded cybersecurity in our development, at the very beginning of any product.

3. Moving to Cloud: 
In recent times, many of the large enterprises and in fact even government organizations are now adopting the “Cloud First” policy and most of their business processes are already utilizing the benefits of Cloud these days.

4. User and Privacy Concerns: 
With AI gaining momentums, how data is used and protected will remain a major concern. Now, citizens are increasingly concerned with privacy of their data.

5. Business Continuity: 
The threats to business continuity are constant and acute for physical security systems specially video and access control, which are particularly vulnerable in natural disaster or terrorist attack.  The surveillance systems should come with built-in disaster recovery function so that users can take advantage of continuous and uninterrupted monitoring of devices and events.

How Videonetics is leveraging the latest security technologies for its customers amidst this Coronavirus outbreak?

The pandemic has created demand for new solutions to help control the spread of the virus and vertical sectors are expected to witness a high adoption of AI powered security solutions to achieve various benefits, including contactless business operations, adhering social distancing rules, facial recognition with mask/no mask, PPE detection to name a few.

With regards to COVID-19, we have deployed AI powered Video Analytics based ‘SAJAG’ Pandemic Management Suite at India and overseas locations, empowering security operators by delivering actionable intelligence with in-depth insights to combat spread of the virus. SAJAG provides multiple use cases and serves as an efficient decision support system for authorities in identifying and concentrating on areas where people are violating the norms.  With intelligent identification and real-time notification of safety violations, SAJAG has enabled our customers to meet public health recommendations and streamline their efforts for protection.

How are you able to cope up with the customers during pandemic? 

The impact of COVID-19 on enterprises and economies is transforming the way businesses are operated and delivered worldwide. Business continuity and the health of our employees, partners and customers are our primary concerns. 

During this time, we are focusing on supporting our partners & customers as much as we can. Our partners and customers are the extended arms of the company, we ensure to sustain their trust & confidence with us and continuing business with them throughout this unprecedented time and well into the future.  

Any latest product that Videonetics has come up with, to help dealing with Coronavirus pandemic? 

Videonetics launched the World’s first AI powered Video Analytics based ‘SAJAG’ which has been trained with real-time video data to address real-world challenges pertaining to COVID-19 such as social distancing, queue and crowd management, Masks & PPE detection, identifying vehicles of interest to name a few.

Please elaborate on Videonetics’ ‘Intelligent VMS 3.0’ and its key characteristics. 

We have recently launched its third generation of Intelligent VMS that delivers unified, next generation user interface, military-grade security, rugged with unprecedented levels of high availability and a future ready solution, for any size of deployment across various industry verticals such as smart & safe cities, critical infrastructure, industrial, mass transit, education, healthcare and retail to name a few. Videonetics released its Intelligent VMS 3.0 encompasses multiple video computing services in a unified, homogenous software architecture platform and goes beyond mere ‘capture-record-display’ generation of Video Management.