Video Analytics identifies events or patterns of behaviour through video analysis of monitored environments. It monitors video streams in real-time and automatically creates current security alerts and analyses historical data to identify specific incidents and patterns. It helps agencies to organize, analyse and share the insight gained from data to make smarter decisions and enable enhanced coordination.

Using a combination of algorithms, video analytics analyses captured video in real time and presents alerts about whatever the application is programmed to identify. Today's video analytics applications are able to do much more than just identify motion, and false alarms have been reduced to negligible rates as they can automatically filter out motion caused by wind, snow, rain and change of lighting. Some applications now also have the ability to detect tampering, and can automatically adjust the visual parameters of enabled video cameras according to individual scene characteristics to ensure optimal brightness and contrast for video viewing and recording. To read more about the evolution of video analytics read here: http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/co-2173-ga.2504.html