Virtual Protective Achieves Proactive Security with Evolon

Virtual Protective provides state-of-the-art construction site security cameras and monitoring services tailored for job site managers, general contractors, and commercial building contractors. Their advanced AI-powered solutions ensure immediate detection of intruders without false alarms, making their mobile video surveillance offerings highly sought after.

Virtual Protective’s commitment to uninterrupted, round-the-clock security makes it a trusted partner in the rapidly growing mobile video surveillance solutions market. The increasing demand for real-time access to surveillance data and the heightened need for security against fraud, theft, terrorism, and vandalism are significant drivers of this market expansion. Businesses continually seek advanced and practical video surveillance technologies, spurring innovations and new product launches by key companies, further fueling the market’s growth.

“At Virtual Protective, we take pride in providing our customers with 100% uptime to ensure consistent security around the clock, with no interruptions to service,” said Jonathan Byrd, Technical Manager of Virtual Protective. “This core value requires our technology team to optimize systems for interoperability and collaborate with technology partners that deliver best-in-class performance and reliability.”

Virtual Protective offers solar and plug-in security camera units with additional services such as time-lapse videography for construction site customers today. A key challenge is ensuring technology partners perform well in these various deployment methods in evolving environments.

Eliminating false alarms and focusing on threats quickly is paramount when running a remote video monitoring operation. Many remote monitoring teams deploy artificial intelligence that leverages machine learning and computer vision to automate threat detection. This technology layer enables operators to be more efficient, fueling growth and customer satisfaction.

Virtual Protective had deployed the camera manufacturer’s default analytics with an AI solution for its mobile trailers but faced significant challenges with false alarms and bandwidth use. The previous AI provider struggled with false positives on animals and objects blowing in the wind, negatively impacting security operations’ efficiency.

A major challenge is that construction sites are highly dynamic, with complex and ever-changing scenes. Objects often cause nuisance alarms that require robust AI filtering. Operators monitoring the systems receive unnecessary distractions that reduce their ability to focus on genuine threats, leading to slower response times and increased potential to misidentify real threats.

“The false positives made it challenging to be most effective with our mobile surveillance solutions,” Byrd said. “We couldn’t rely on what the onboard analytics software told us. Motion events were either too sensitive or insufficient, a significant problem in security environments. But we believed in AI and knew it could help us automate risk identification. We needed to find a solution that we could rely on — proven and trusted.”

Additionally, the need for cellular connectivity to transmit real-time video data inflated expenses. Mobile and pole-mounted surveillance units relied on cellular networks to send video feeds and alarms to the central command center. This reliance on cellular data proved costly, especially as the data transmitted increased with each false alarm. The high bandwidth usage resulted in substantial data costs, which escalated as more surveillance units were deployed.

The combination of these challenges — high false alarm rates, increased labor costs, and expensive data transmission — necessitated a more efficient and cost-effective solution. Virtual Protective needed a way to improve the overall efficiency of its remote video monitoring operations to maintain its competitive edge and continue providing top-tier security services to its clients.

Virtual Protective adopted Evolon’s AI-powered video solutions to address these challenges, including Evolon Edge and Evolon Insites. This approach enhanced threat detection, reduced false alarms, and optimized bandwidth usage, significantly improving security operations.

Designed as a simple camera plugin, Evolon Edge gives existing Axis and Hanwha cameras new life as a proactive perimeter security solution. Evolon Insites, powered by an AI copilot, is a solution that significantly enhances the monitoring process by focusing on delivering the most pertinent alerts.

By deploying Evolon Edge on Axis cameras, Virtual Protective achieved a false alarm reduction rate of 99% and reduced bandwidth usage by 75%. Evolon Edge’s advanced video analytics minimized false alarms at the camera level, enabling more efficient monitoring and reducing data transmission costs. During testing, Evolon’s two-layered approach outperformed the existing technology solution: Evolon reported only nine events compared to the previous 600 alerts in 20 days.

Evolon’s AI settings are highly customizable, allowing Virtual Protective to fine-tune the system according to specific sites and changing needs. This flexibility is crucial for optimizing the performance of various camera setups and ensuring accurate threat detection. Combining edge video analytics with cloud AI has greatly improved detection capabilities on dynamic construction site scenes.

“Enhancing cameras in the field with Evolon Edge for detection has radically improved bandwidth usage for mobile surveillance deployments and increased overall performance accuracy,” said Byrd. “With the addition of Evolon Insites for cloud AI analysis and alarm automation into a central station, Virtual Protective can deploy proactive security efficiently at scale.”

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