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
	Analog	Network	Analog	Network
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.