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OMNIPRESENCE
Omnipresence
A software system that can help your security staff track people through
a property efficiently and simply. Sound too good to be true? It’s not, as
Joshua Koopferstock explained to Casino International…
S
ecurity monitoring is difficult in many video feeds and projects it into that 3D environment
ways, but imagine trying to track one to give context. So you never have to remember where
person on the casino floor through all the feeds are; if you’re watching the security
hundreds of cameras. Lose them, and it monitor you can have a bird’s eye view, with the most
could cost money or even the integrity of relevant cameras selected for you, depending on
the casino’s security. Not any more – Feeling Software where you’re looking at any given time. You don’t
has the solution, and it couldn’t be simpler. Feeling’s have to remember which cameras are where because
Director of Marketing Josh Koopferstock explains to our system is selecting it for you, it knows where the
CI how Omnipresence works… best cameras are.
Casino International: The software sounds CI: Sounds simple when you describe it like
really interesting – can you give us an overview of that…
what Omnipresence does? JK: It’s complex in the background, but in reality
Joshua Koopferstock: The whole idea of the we’re simplifying things. It’s an extraordinarily
software is that with large camera applications, which complex task to monitor 500 cameras, and some
is what most casinos would have, with say 50 or more casinos in Vegas might have over 1,000 cameras.
cameras, you need to have some kind of framework,
or some kind of context to understand all that CI: Are there limitations to what you can work
information because it gets really complicated to try with in an existing security installation?
to understand . You might be looking at a monitor JK: We partner with a range of different recording
which has 50 cameras being shown at once and systems, so we act as an additional layer for
you’re trying to remember where each camera is in visualisation; we attach to the video management
relation to the others. That’s an impossible task for system. We pull the live or the archive videos from
even seasoned security personnel. If you have that system, and then we create a 3D environment to
someone in the casino who walks left to right on project those videos inside. So it’s designed to work
camera 30, next they appear on camera 212 – to be with existing systems.
able to understand that for their entire system…
Some people get very good at that, but if they need CI: So if I wanted to use the Omnipresence 3D
to react quickly there’s still a high chance of error. Surveillance System, I would be buying it as an
What our system does is incorporates a 3D add-on to a package from an existing supplier, is
environment and then takes those live or archived that right?
JK: It wouldn’t be bought from them, but it is
another layer to a security solution.
CI: Can you retro-fit it to an older system?
JK: Right now, we have some partners and we’re
continuing to expand those partners – there is
integration involved, and as we progress with the
software we’re adding more and more video
management systems that we can work with. We’re
partners with Gentech, Milestone, Pelco, and we’re in
talks with IndigoVision and a host of other systems
providers. Our goal is to be able to retrofit on top of
any existing system and we’re moving strongly in that
direction.
There’s always new systems coming out, so it’s an
ongoing process; right now, we’re working with many
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