Command and Control
 Given the complex nature of security and surveillance operations and the vast amount of heterogeneous data which requires aggregation and analysis, the need for advanced technologies which can make sense of information and alert the relevant parties to crucial intelligence has never been so great. Bringing together best-of-breed technologies in video surveillance and analytics, Business Process Management, and Meaning-Based Computing, Command and Control proactively assists security officers to retrieve relevant intelligence in real-time. Command and Control is operated through Virage Visor, a cohesive, user-friendly interface which provides users with the functional tools required to configure security settings and control the scene. Since Command and Control is fully modular, additional functionality can be added and controlled through the interface, as an enterprise's security needs dictate. Autonomy Virage's Security and Surveillance Command and Control infrastructure enables all Autonomy Virage products to interact seamlessly. It has been specifically designed to allow easy integration of third party equipment such as alarm panels, display units etc. Although certain products can be deployed for simple functions such as standalone capture and archive, in order to perform more advanced functions, Autonomy Virage provides three levels of Command and Control for a range of different environments and needs; from simplistic rule-based models to highly complex, intelligent solutions based on conceptual analysis.  Level I - Simple Monitoring Command and Control Level I offers a simple rule-based solution. Any number of Autnomy Virage products can be connected with the Command and Control system which performs as per instructions pre-defined by a systems administrator. For example, if Autonomy Virage's DVR and EPOS were set up with Level I, the system could be programmed to highlight particularly unusual till transactions such as large sums of cash-back on the logged till transaction data. Network Video Recording and Container Surveillance Management might also be deployed with Level I to monitor traffic at a port and could be trained to raise a barrier for particular vehicles whilst disallowing entry for others. Level II - Event Stream Processing In addition to performing simple rule-based functions, Command and Control Level II handles logical interactions between disparate pieces of data. The Incident Process Management offered with Level II, powered by integrating Autonomy's Liquid Office, automates the reporting process, reducing cost of data entry and distribution of information to relevant users. This approach enables each report to provide a richer and more relevant content, and automatically classifies and distributes it to the relevant department. Digital Video Recording, Intelligent Scene Analysis System and Command and Control Level II might be used, for example, to monitor vehicle speeds between points; by identifying the same object and calculating the distance between the two points, the system could calculate distance traveled within a given time frame and therefore what speed the vehicle/s must have been traveling at. Another example might be deploying Network Video Recording and Automatic Number Plate Recognition to monitor car park usage in multiple locations and calculate usage percentages based on initial numbers collected i.e. the system could highlight that the central car park has the highest usage at 50% whilst north and south car parks have 20% and 30% usage respectively. Level III - Complex Event Monitoring Command and Control Level III provides state-of-the-art security infrastructure software solution for all the most complex security operations, automating a vast range of tasks and bringing conceptual understanding of all data. Halo, powered by Autonomy's award-winning Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), employs advanced analytics to add intelligence to an wide range of security operations and information retrieval. Halo is able to form a conceptual understanding of the meaning of any piece of data, be it in the form of text, video, or audio. By deriving an understanding of the available information assets, Halo automatically provides users with relevant background information, cross-referencing data according to its conceptual content to reveal emerging trends and identify potential threats, delivering it directly to the user in the form of hyperlinks or thematically similar clusters. Autonomy's core technology is used by some of the most prestigious intelligence and defense agencies worldwide including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Defense, The British Ministry of Defense, the Olympic Games Security Committee, National Nuclear Security Administration and numerous other intelligence and defense agencies worldwide. One of the key reasons organizations choose Autonomy, is its ability to discover "the unknown" which has a significant impact upon the efficacy of many world-renowned security agencies. At this sophisticated level, the cutting edge of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing technology forms a conceptual understanding of all forms of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data be it video, audio or textual in format. At its core, the technology uses a combination of Bayesian Inference and Shannon’s Information Theory to automatically extract the key concepts from any piece of information. As a mathematical platform, it is not constrained by the limitations of linguistic or rules-based models. Distinct concepts, ideas and behaviors are exposed within any data set on the basis of mathematically derived coherence and not rigid conformity to predefined structures or characteristics. This enables the technology to recognize the potential threat for the first time, both at a tactical and strategic level, without prior training or insight. Operationally, this results in an intelligent surveillance infrastructure capable of instantly and automatically fusing vast quantities of heterogeneous data, identifying interrelationships, spotting important trends and alerting surveillance officers to this vital intelligence. Additional functionality can be seamlessly integrated into the system in order to perform further advanced data fusion operations. Level IV - Secure Archiving, Retention and Disposition Management Providing evidence for court cases, compliance regulations, and risk management are just a few of the primary reasons why video needs to be archived. Many organizations and police forces are swamped with CCTV footage which is neither properly filed nor securely managed. Autonomy Virage offers enhanced video archiving solution ensuring that digital video is efficiently controlled and protected; only accessible to those with the right of access and that it is duly retained according to corporate and legislative rules. Videos which are to be used for evidential purposes are required to be held for a predetermined period in a guaranteed unchanged state. Legacy approaches have required the manual identification of such videos and the movement of these into a stand-alone secure repository - a costly and time-consuming approach. Unlike traditional solutions, Autonomy Virage automates the retention and disposition of video footage by understanding the meaning of all information regardless of format, language or repository through the power of Autonomy IDOL.
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