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IOMNISCIENT is an Australian based company set up to exploit unique and non-conventional technologies for the security surveillance industry. The key principals of the company, each of whom has a track record of having set up new businesses, have all worked in multi-national companies before and have brought along invaluable experience in Sales, Marketing and Product Development. IOMNISCIENT has a team of engineers who create a blend of leading edge technologies in the area of:
* Artificial Intelligence Techniques
* Imaging and Pattern Recognition Technology
* Database and Information Processing Technology
* Distributed Architecture and Wireless Transmission technology
* Complex Statistical and Mathematical Algorithms

Applications and Solutions for

Airport Security, Bank Security, Casino Security, City Security, Events, Hotels/Hospitality, Landmarks, Manufacturing, Museums, Oil & Gas, Prisons, Police, Ports, Railways, Retail, Roads & Traffic Schools, S.M. Enterprise, Utilities, Casinos, City Surveillance and Hospitals

Security Sector Information

Airport Security
IQ-Airport™ IQ-Airport is a revolutionary and comprehensive set of intelligent video analytics that can improve the efficiency, safety and security of all aspects of airport operations. From queue management to maintenance, from detecting intruders to finding unattended baggage, from recognising suspicious behavior to detecting parking violations, the IQ-Airport system can provide tangible and measurable benefits. No other video analytic system in the world provides the range of capabilities available in IQ-Airport.

IQ-Airport is based on iOmniscient's IQ product series - renowned as the most Intelligent Video Analytics system in the world. Powered by patented Non-Motion Detection (NMD) technology and an unbeatable Nuisance Alarm Minimization System (NAMS), the advanced detection capabilities and intelligence to ignore false alarms place it well ahead of anything else available in the market.
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Bank Security

Banks are unique organisations. Their product is money. For this reason they are often the target of an attack. Banks have many areas that need protection from a security perspective and then, like other organisations they have other requirements too in other departments.

Where there are many branches it may not be feasible to guard them all and it would make sense to have them remotely monitored. Installing video based intrusion alarms can allow the guard at the central monitoring station to see the intruder, confirm that it is not a false alarm and take some action.

Retail Banks also have use for the more traditional applications such as Counting and Queue Management. In fact customer service may be a far more important issue as it is usually part of the value proposition of the bank.

The ATMs (automatic teller machines) that many banks have outside their branches and in unmanned locations such as shopping malls are also the targets for criminals. The latest attempt at identity theft centres on the installation of very small devices above the slot where the customer is supposed to enter his card. These devices can copy the identity information from the magnetic strip. The bank needs to detect if such a device has been implanted by criminals on their ATM. A camera (with an IQ 180 level system) could identify a small device that had been placed on their ATM and the bank could then take action to remove it as well as to identify who installed the device. Download Pdf

Casino Security
Casinos have traditionally used large numbers of cameras. This is because casinos are extremely sensitive about smart fraudsters – those who find ways to cheat their system. Usually these cheats are very clever and experienced people and it takes a very experienced person watching the cameras to determine if a fraud is being perpetuated. The objective of the casinos is to keep a very close eye not just on the punters who come in to gamble but also on their own staff as the evidence shows that invariably there is some internal involvement in most fraud cases in these environments.

As such casinos put in hundreds of cameras looking down on virtually every gaming table. Although some companies have touted that they can detect fraud at casinos in fact it is very difficult to detect even for humans. The proverbial card up the sleeve trick (and its many variants) is very difficult to detect even by people who have worked in this business for many years. So the only solution is to have a human watching the gaming tables and as we have seen this is totally ineffective.

The experts employed to detect the fraud can only focus on a very small number of cameras – say those on a single gaming table at the casino. They use their experience to pick up minute gestures or moves made by the cheats that might reveal their activity. As yet commercially available Video Analysis systems are not sufficiently sophisticated to pick up these micro gestures and hence this particular activity is best done by humans – indeed it can only be done by humans.

However there are a range of other applications that are relevant to casinos in addition to all the standard counting and behaviour analysis applications. One uch application is the detection of the theft of chips from an unused gaming table. Apparently when gaming table is not being, it is left unmanned. Various chips, markers and other items are left on the table when it closed. These do have some intrinsic value and have been known to disappear.

The experience of most casinos is that such thefts are usually committed by their own staff. Every one of these tables usually has a camera watching it when it is being used. This same camera can be used to detect the theft of these chips using an IQ 140 level theft detection system. Download PDF

City Security
City Surveillance needs can be quite varied. There will be groups that are responsible for protecting building assets. Graffiti and Vandalism detection can be an important application for them. Traditional motion detection systems can detect graffiti but they would also detect all the many passersby on the street. A non-motion detection algorithm based system is required (IQ 140) to detect the graffiti while ignoring innocent people who are just walking past. In one European city they had a very severe graffiti problem. Each time the buildings were repainted the graffiti artists struck again. Repainting buildings can be very expensive and hence the city council had to find a solution. They put in an IQ 140 level Graffiti detection system mounted on a van. Using infrared cameras the system was able to catch the culprits on the first day after it was installed. The news spread very quickly among graffiti artists and the problem disappeared overnight – at least in their neighbourhood.

Other groups will require the city surveillance system to monitor traffic. Often there are special slow speed zones near schools or beside shopping malls and hospitals Monitoring such locations has traditionally been very expensive because the detection of speed and the recognition of vehicles previously required significant civil works such as the digging of roads for the laying of magnetic loops as well as very expensive cameras. With modern systems where the video analysis system can do everything (triggering of the event, detection and recognition) the economics have changed and these systems can be widely implemented at a tenth of the cost of the traditional systems.

The most important focus of city surveillance systems however is on the people themselves. The objective is to keep people safe and prevent accidents or criminal activities. Not all activities are easy to detect. As has been discussed it is very difficult to detect if two people are fighting as this can take many different forms.

However many associated behaviours can be detected. For instance, if a person falls down as a result of a fight, this can be detected. If a person begins to run suddenly – this too can be detected. If crowds gather suddenly this could be a symptom of some unusual activity as well. Having a system that can monitor various types of human behaviour can help the city’s officials ensure the safety of their citizens. Download PDF

Event Security
The Olympics, the World Expo, the Commonwealth Games, World Youth Day, major exhibitions, soccer matches - even the Food and Wine Festival in the local community all involve managing crowds. Large numbers of people gather together and it is left to the organizers and the Police to manage the law and order situation in such events.

The first thing that organizers want to know is how many people attended an event. This helps them to market the event in the following year. Counting may also be important to prevent overcrowding. Every year at the Hajj in Mecca, large numbers of people are trampled to death due to poor crowd management.

Video Analysis can provide the authorities with information on the size of the crowd and which way it is moving. This can allow them to take appropriate measures such as opening up new exits or helping to channel the crowd in new directions.

During the event the authorities have to cope with illegal parking, graffiti, hawkers and misbehaving people. After the event they have to clean up the facilities. All the basic applications may also apply at these events. For instance athletes at the Games villages need to be protected from intruders. Special equipment or artifacts need to be protected from theft at exhibitions. A good system can help the authorities implement a safer event specially in view of the large number of people involved. Download PDF

Hospital Security
All of us have had some interaction with hospitals and other health care facilities. If we have been lucky enough to avoid having to stay there oneself, one may have had to go there for the birth of a child. Or an aged parent may be in a care facility.
As lay people we all tend to be more aware of all the issues facing our various hospitals and other health care facilities. Labour wards where babies are born are usually filled with doting parents, grandparents and friends. However geriatric wards, dementia wards and old age facilities

in general tend to be poorly attended other than by the patients and a few staff. In such facilities it can be important to know if someone has slipped and fallen on the way to the lunch room. The largest number of falls happen in the bathroom. As such the management of such facilities have to draw a fine line between the privacy rights of the patient and the need to ensure that they are safe and still upright.

Certainly in the public areas such a system is invaluable. Especially in dementia wards a Facial Recognition system is also valuable. Uncle Johnny may wander off and get lost. He may forget where he is and may not know how to get back. The system can track where he was last seen.

In more traditional health care facilities there is another major issue – the protection of drugs, syringes and other related materials from theft. A video analysis adjunct to an inventory management system can be use to record the face of a person every time he picks up some item in the stock room. If a box of drugs goes missing the system will have a record of every person who picked up a box from that area. Note that this is much more than a recording system. If a simple recording system is used one would be storing a lot of video footage of the empty stock room as it would usually only be visited in short bursts. A motion detection system would also not be of particular use as one does not need to see who entered or left the room. The key is to know who picked up an item from a particular section of the stock room. For this one would require an IQ 140 level theft detection system. Download PDF

Hotel and Hospitality Security
The hospitality industry consists of a range of organisations from hotels to casinos, from restaurants to private clubs. What are their unique security concerns? Perhaps the largest numbers of cameras are implemented in casinos around the world. Their objective is to keep a very close eye not just on the punters who come in to gamble but also on their own staff as the evidence shows that invariably there is some internal involvement in most fraud cases in these environments.

Law Enforcement
Every country has a police force. They have a different role and hence a different requirement to traditional security groups. They may require surveillance, for example, to watch a house over a period of time to see who comes and goes. They may want to know if certain cars stop outside the house and they may want to know if a crowd of people gather near by. The surveillance may be needed over a long period of time – possibly for several months.

Instead it is possible to use a couple of cameras for the surveillance. Officers are then only required to view the video footage where they can easily “jump to the events” that have been detected.

Port Security
Applications in ports can be very similar to those in airports with a key difference.

Prison staff need to be notified every time a person crosses a particular barrier. Whenever an officer enters a cell block or if a prisoner is brought out the event needs to be recorded. Counting can be important. – it is important to know the numbers who entered a certain area and the number of those who have left it.A very important application is the detection of items that are thrown over the perimeter wall into or out of the prison. The object could be something as small as a mobile phone. The authorities, however, will normally want to be made aware of these objects and would confiscate them. So any object detection system aimed at detecting small objects that get thrown into or out of the prison needs to cope with people being present in the scene at the time.

IQ-Prisons is based on iOmniscient's IQ product series - renowned as the most Intelligent Video
Analytics system in the world. Powered by patented Non-Motion Detection (NMD) technology and an unbeatable Nuisance Alarm Minimization System (NAMS), the advanced detection capabilities affore false alarms place it well ahead of anything else available in the market. Download PDF.

Railway Security
IQ-Rail™ IQ-Rail is a revolutionary and comprehensive set of intelligent video analytic solutions that can improve the efficiency, safety and security of all aspects of rail
operations. From maintenance to queue management, from detecting graffiti to protecting level crossings, from detecting intruders who enterin tunnels to finding objects left on the track, the IQ-Rail system can provide very
tangible and measurable benefits.

Store Security/Retail Security
IQ-Retail is a unique integrated software system that can reduce public liability, maintain security, and
significantly improve customer satisfaction in any crowded shopping centre. Using artificial intelligence, the system can provide a range of applications that are specific to a retail environment.
Going beyond security this system will be useful for marketing and improving customer service.

An IQ 140 level object detection system could certainly be used to protect a room full of computers. The system would ignore students when they are in the room using the computer but if one of the machines is taken out of the room the system will generate an alarm. This type of system is valuable as most thefts of such equipment often occur during school hours. When the school is empty at night there is also a risk of vandals spraying graffiti or lighting fires. This too can be detected using an IQ 140 level system.

Universities and schools are places where students tend to work late and walk home down secluded paths at night there is the risk of the student being accosted and robbed or even sexually assaulted. In this environment it would be appropriate to install a system that is voice activated. Voice Recognition systems can be used to recognize key words such as, “help” or “stop”. A microphone on the camera can be used to record sound and set off an alarm if a key word is heard.

When activated the system can switch on flood lights and possibly put out an announcement on the loudspeaker advising the assailants that they had been identified. This can be a recorded message though attackers may learn that they are only being talked to by a machine and soon ignore these messages. An alternative is to have the guard (even if he is remote as he is likely to be) talk to the attacker. Download PDF.

Latest News

iOmniscient’s long-awaited World - Wide Enlightenment Seminar is coming to New York City! The same has been conducted in over 30 countries addressing to over tens of thousands of audience! The responses have been overwhelming.
The seminar will cover the latest breakthroughs in video analytics including the world’s first Facial Recognition in the Crowd. We will also share our success stories and case studies in various industries including transportation, banking, city surveillance etc, Download Invitation

iOmniscient launches the ultimate VMS…and virtually gives it away

Having already positioned itself as the technological leader in intelligent surveillance, iOmniscient has now introduced a Video Management System with some very unique capabilities.

Technical Leader Ryan Wang explained, “We decided to launch our own VMS because we found that most traditional VMS manufacturers had built systems for recording and general surveillance purposes. We have built our system with Automated Surveillance in mind. With our experience in Intelligent Surveillance we knew we could build a much superior VMS system – one that is efficient to operate and easier to implement.”

IQ VMS has every feature that you would expect from the most sophisticated VMS on the market and many new and unique features that no one else has. Most importantly it has the following features:

• Seamless integration with video analysis.With IQ VMS you don’t have to worry about plug-ins with Video Analytics. iOmniscient’s IQ Series products are tightly integrated into the VMS so that everything works seamlessly together. And since the two systems use an integrated database there is a major saving in storage and decoding costs.

• Universal Connectivity – it can connect to cameras, encoders and analog devices from several thousand manufacturers – there is no brand specific dependency.

• infinite scalability and total flexibility in terms of architecture and distribution .

• Simple pricing and VERY INEXPENSIVE - even though the product is designed to be the Rolls Royce of VMS systems, it has been priced to compete with the most inexpensive VMS products available.

iOmniscient wins Global Security Challenge

As the focus of security moves from theft and intrusion to terrorism, the requirement for security systems has also changed. The major threats of the future will happen in crowded scenes and not on empty fence lines.

But despite the fact that there are now many companies that offer video analysis they can only do this in simple empty scenes. To find out who could handle crowded and complex environments British Aerospace (BAE) sponsored the “Global Security Challenge for Crowded Places”. An international team of eminent judges was assembled to evaluate the alternative offerings.

iOmniscient has been declared as the overall Worldwide Winner of the challenge. BAE’s very generous prize will be presented at a ceremony in London in June 2010.

Dr Rustom Kanga CEO, iOmniscient Corporation comments.

Dr Rustom Kanga, CEO of iOmniscient said, “. We have always said that our specialization is coping with crowded and complex scenes. This is where we have our patents. So we were very confident that we would do well. But we are very delighted that this capability has been recognized by BAE and the judging panel. Of course since we can cope with crowded scenes we can easily do the more simple applications in empty scenes as well. One has to select the right intelligence level – the right IQ level – for the particular requirement.”

Many iOmniscient products are specially designed to work in Crowded and Complex Scenes. While others can count individuals moving one at a time, iOmniscient can count them moving in a crowd. While others can detect a bag if it is left in an empty scene, iOmniscient can detect it even when a thousand people have walked in front of it and totally obscured it for a significant period of time. And iOmniscient’s patented Nuisance Alarm Minimization System (NAMS) ensures that the false alarms that can occur in very difficult scenes are minimized.

And most recently iOmniscient announced its Face Recognition in a Crowd technology. Up to now Face Recognition could only be done effectively with very high resolution cameras in highly controlled environments. iOmniscient’s system can work in crowds with standard surveillance cameras where the person is not looking directly at the camera.

Conferences and Exhibtions.

IFSEC India in Nov 2010

CPSC China in Nov 2010

Cauasa Toronto in Nov 2010

Intersec Dubai in Jan 2011