Autonomy's Command and Control Solution

The intricate nature of security and surveillance operations in organizations today is further complicated by the vast amount of varied data that requires aggregation and analysis. These challenges drive the need for advanced technologies that can make sense of information and alert relevant parties about crucial intelligence. Autonomy's Command and Control brings together best-of-breed technologies in video surveillance and analytics, business process management, and meaning-based computing to proactively assist security officers in retrieving relevant intelligence in real time.

Autonomy's Command and Control solution is provided through Autonomy Visor's cohesive, user-friendly interface to give users functional tools to configure security settings and control the scene. Since Command and Control is fully modular, additional functionality can be added and controlled through the interface, to match your enterprise security needs.

Autonomy's Command and Control infrastructure enables all Autonomy products to work together seamlessly. It has been specifically designed to allow easy integration of third party equipment such as alarm panels, display units, and more. Although certain products can be deployed for simple functions such as standalone capture and archive, to perform more advanced functions, Autonomy provides four levels of Command and Control for a range of environments and needs—from simplistic rules-based models to highly complex, intelligent solutions based on conceptual analysis federated across sites.

Autonomy's Command and Control Level 1 offers a simple rule-based solution that can be connected with other Autonomy Command and Control system modules. The solution operates using pre-defined instructions defined by a systems administrator. For example, if Autonomy Video Management System (VMS) and Facial Recognition were set up with Level 1, the system could be programmed to highlight individuals from a watch list. Autonomy VMS and License plate recognition might be deployed with Level I to monitor traffic at an airport to raise a barrier for particular vehicles while preventing entry for others.

Autonomy's Command and Control Level 1 handles logical interactions between disparate pieces of data. For instance, VMS, Intelligent Scene Analysis System and the Command and Control solution may be used to monitor vehicle speeds between points by identifying the same object and calculating the distance between the two points. The system calculates distance traveled within a given time frame and determines the vehicle speed(s) .

Command and Control Level 2 provides state-of-the-art security infrastructure software for the most complex security operations, automating a vast range of tasks and bringing conceptual understanding of data. Powered by Autonomy's award-winning Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), the Level 2 solution employs advanced analytics to add intelligence to a wide range of security operations and information retrieval.

The Complex Event Processing offering forms a conceptual understanding of the meaning of virtually any piece of data, including text, video, or audio. By deriving an understanding of the available information assets, the Complex Event Processing solution automatically provides users with relevant background information, cross-referencing data according to its conceptual content to reveal emerging trends and identify potential threats. The information is delivered directly to the user in the form of hyperlinks or thematically similar clusters.

Autonomy's core technology, IDOL, is used by some of the most prestigious intelligence and defense agencies worldwide. One of the key reasons organizations choose Autonomy is its ability to discover the unknown concepts—which can significantly impact the effectiveness of many world-renowned security agencies.

Autonomy's Command and Control Level 3 adds site federation to all the features of Level 4. This allows the cross correlation of data between websites, which allows security professionals to spot patterns and take actions based on a holistic view of information across the entire organization. This capability eliminates any manual tasks that may have been required moving data manually, to save time and increase efficiency and accuracy.

Providing evidence for court cases, compliance regulations, and risk management are just a few of the primary reasons why organizations must archive video content. Today, most organizations and police forces are swamped with CCTV footage which is typically not properly categorized or securely managed.

Autonomy offers enhanced video archiving to ensure digital video is efficiently controlled, protected, and only accessible to those with access rights. Videos can be retained according to corporate and legislative rules—an important capability should the organization need to produce videos for evidentiary purposes or hold them for a predetermined period and in a guaranteed unchanged state. While some legacy approaches can accomplish this type of archiving, they require videos to be manually identified and/or moved to a unique repository, which is typically a costly and time-consuming process. Unlike traditional solutions, Autonomy IDOL automates the retention and disposition of video footage by understanding its meaning, regardless of format or language.

Also available in the Level 4 solution, Incident Process Management is integrated with Autonomy's Business Process Management to automate the reporting process, and reduce the cost of data entry and information distribution to relevant users. This enables reports to more efficiently provide richer, more relevant content. For instance, if you deployed VMS and Automatic Number Plate Recognition to monitor car parking usage in multiple locations and needed to calculate usage percentages based on initial numbers collected, the Autonomy system could reveal which parking lot had the highest usage at 50 percent while north and south lots had 20 percent to 30 percent usage.

Autonomy's Command and Control uses Visor's cohesive, user-friendly interface to give users the functional tools required to configure security settings and control the scene. Since Command and Control is fully modular, additional functionality can be added and controlled through Visor, as the security needs within an enterprise evolves.

The Visor Toolbox includes a range of advantages, including the following:

Autonomy's Situational Awareness web client offers global organizations the ability to control and monitor security and surveillance activities through a rich user interface accessible over a standard Internet connection. The solution provides security officers with a secure, comprehensive view and analysis of security scenarios, and allows access to all relevant intelligence information without being restricted to the Security and Control Center.

The Situational Awareness web client frees security officers to engage in hands-on investigation and monitoring throughout the premise, allowing them to remain aware of situations in other areas via a mobile device, or through portals installed in strategic locations.

The Situational Awareness web client extends the Autonomy's Command and Control platform to bring together information from a wide range of applications and allows holistic monitoring and analysis of security data in real time. These capabilities allow you to streamline and facilitate traditional investigative methods by performing conceptual analysis to reveal trends and patterns hidden in the data set.