Operational purposes III

Interesting that the Cisco/Harrah's deal [securityingfowatch], which centers around data integration, started as an innovative guest experience discussion — and that IP cameras and video analytics are planned to serve mostly operational purposes:

[Cisco's Steve] Collen also noted that analytics is a potential solution for Harrah's, and while he said that video analytics is still too nascent to be used for safety purposes, Collen said it had promise in the gaming and hospitality markets for issues like reception desk queue management. "If the system detects too many people, it could send an alert to request another staff member for the reception desk," suggested Collen.

The latest and most innovative video systems have as much to do with business intelligence and new uses for video capture as technology.

Abigail