BriefCam User Guide
BriefCam is the industry’s leading provider of VIDEO SYNOPSIS® and deep learning solutions that make video searchable, actionable, and quantifiable. BriefCam’s video analytics platform is built on a unique fusion of computer vision and AI (artificial intelligence) technologies, empowering new and innovative safety, security, and operational efficiency by extracting practical value from video surveillance systems.
BriefCam’s platform enables rapid video review and search, quantitative video insights, and smart alerting – dramatically shortening time-to-target to detect and mitigate security threats, and significantly enhancing safety and operational optimization.
BriefCam offers both standalone deployments and multi-site deployments (comprised of multiple site systems and a central Hub). This guide is relevant for all standalone deployments and site deployments. This guide is relevant for all standalone deployments and site deployments. For information about using Hub deployments, see the BriefCam Nexus Multi-Site Guide.
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BriefCam Software Solutions
The BriefCam platform comprises the following key modules:
The REVIEW Solution – enables VIDEO SYNOPSIS® generation on the basis of video sourced from both offline files and online VMS platforms, with full case management and such powerful features as multi-camera search, appearance similarity and face recognition, and granular filtering.
The RESPOND Solution – supports delivery of proactive responses to critical events for increased safety and security, with customizable alerts, alert reporting, and browser notifications.
The RESEARCH Solution – facilitates leveraging of quantitative video analysis-derived intelligence for informed, data-driven decision-making, including advanced trend and dimensional (area, path, duration and other) KPI analysis as well as full dashboarding and scheduling capabilities.
