Advanced Micro Services The Digital Advantage

Because digital systems store images electronically, they are much more flexible than their tape-based counterparts. AMS's digital surveillance solutions can offer numerous advantages:

• Digital video images of a crime in progress can be instantly transmitted over a wireless local area network to the local police headquarters.

• The systems can be programmed to automatically notice irregularities, such as someone brandishing a weapon or walking the wrong way in a customs line at the airport. Without human intervention, digital video systems can zoom in on individual faces to improve the chances of identification.

• A searchable index of digital images may be created, enabling authorized users to query the system to, for example, display every person who stopped in front of a certain door on a specific day.

• The quality of the digital image does not deteriorate over time, whether it's stored on disk, magnetic tape, CD-ROM, DVD or is transmitted over a network.

• Business applications can be integrated with a digital surveillance system to expand the functionality of the system. For example: a sensor can trigger a video camera, which then sends the image of a vehicle's license plate number to an application that compares the plate number with information in a database. Once the information is processed, the application can take the necessary action -- for example, raising a gate to permit access to a parking facility.

• The use of an IP network to transmit images and data enables authorized access to the system from any device with an Internet connection.

"Customers are increasingly turning to digital video for security because it offers much greater function than tape-based systems at a better cost," said Alain Agramointe, "Combining AMS's business consulting knowledge with our technology leadership, the new offering is a powerful addition to AMS solutions that help companies secure their physical assets."

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