Banking & Finance Sector: Surveillance Systems
It’s no secret that we live in the information age and are experiencing what is being termed “information overload.” A simple Google search for the term “Surveillance” returns over 55 million results and over 60 million results are returned for the term “CCTV.” For this very reason and ever increasingly, Information security and Identity theft are becoming amongst the top growing concerns of the Banking industry.
It’s important for system integrators and consultants to grasp exactly what banks and financial institutions are looking for in surveillance systems to be able to provide them with what they need. This is a summary of that.
Your surveillance or security system needs to cover two aspects:
People
Assets: which include data, currency, precious stones etc.
General security services required
Surveillance Intrusion Detection
Holdup Alarms Bandit Barriers
Bullet Resistant Glass Teller Lockers
Safes Teller Rooms
Processing Rooms ATM’s
Parking Lots Lobbies
Common Areas
Surveillance Functionality / Features
- Video Recording
- Live Monitoring / Viewing
Instant Playback
- Video Management System
- Powerful Search Features
- Search by date
- Search by time
- Search by camera location
- Search by Alarm event occurrences
- Fast search
- Sharing video clips for investigative purposes
- Ease of use
- High Quality Lens (good enough to decipher image details)
2012 |
2017 |
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Analog |
Network |
Analog |
Network |
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Railways |
34% |
66% |
12% |
88% |
|
Retail |
58% |
42% |
23% |
77% |
|
Commercial |
51% |
49% |
21% |
79% |
|
Education |
28% |
72% |
9% |
91% |
|
Airports |
38% |
62% |
12% |
88% |
|
Government |
41% |
59% |
17% |
83% |
|
Banking & Finance |
72% |
28% |
41% |
59% |
Market Technology Spotlight
Out of all the other sectors, the banking sector seems to be the one grasping the most to Analog technology versus IP but still seeing a significant drop while slowly but surely shifting towards IP technology.