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Volume 11
April 2017 Edition
Hitachi Game Changer
in Improving Smart
City Public Safety
While Protecting
Privacy
Hitachi’s New Video Analytics Software Provides Im-
proved Facial/Object Recognition without Compro-
mising Individual Privacy (Image Credit: Hitachi Insight
Group)
Hitachi Insight Group, has unveiled a new vid-
eo analytics software to enhance and extend its
Smart City and Public Safety solutions portfolio
which AST anticipates being a real game-chang-
er to Smart City Public Safety.
Hitachi Video Analytics (HVA) combines com-
puter vision with advanced analytics to extract
rich insights and generate real-time alerts that
can provide cities, airports, campuses, transpor-
tation agencies, and businesses with:
Operational and business intelligence
• People counting, queue detection, activity
analysis, directional counting, and image en-
hancement deliver insights that help cities,
businesses and other organizations improve
operations and customer experiences.
• It also helps to protect individual privacy,
which can help to reduce their risk and liabil-
ity.
• Smarter transportation, traffic and parking
management
• Vehicle counting, traffic analysis, parking
space detection and license plate recognition
help cities and businesses to improve traffic
and parking for residents, commuters and
customers.
• More effective public safety and security
• Intrusion
detection,
left-behind object
detec-
tion, facial recognition
and camera tampering alerts provide a force
multiplier for public safety departments to help
keep people and property safe.
(Safer, greener, more vibrant. That’s what we call smarter.
The Internet of Things unleashes the intelligence and inno-
vation that makes city life better. Courtesy of Hitachi Insight
Group IoT and YouTube)
“Cities and enterprises looking to fully benefit
from digital transformation need visibility into a
variety of data insights,” said Ruthbea Yesner
Clarke, global director, smart cities strategies at
IDC.
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