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AI-based video surveillance identifies issues faster
Australian-headquartered Artificial Intelligence (AI) and event monitoring software specialist, Artificial Intelligence Group, recently exhibited at the international fire, safety, and security event, IFSEC 2019, in London, explaining how its software overcomes a ‘key shortcoming’ of modern CCTV systems – that the cameras require constant surveillance by ‘by human eyes’, with issues sometimes only identified after criminal activity or other ‘abnormal behaviour’ has occurred. In contrast, its new brochure, The new revolution in CCTV, explains, Ai Group’s video-based AI monitoring software ‘doesn’t just record what happened in the past’; rather it ‘proactively monitors the present to identify issues first’. The company’s Ai Process Monitoring Verification Centre uses offsite cloud- based Artificial Intelligence and Deep Machine Learning systems to monitor ‘processes of concern and abnormal behaviours’ via existing CCTV cameras, eliminating the need to upgrade existing
infrastructure. Any instances of illegal activity, aggressive, or otherwise ‘abnormal’ behaviour etc, are ‘smartly identified’ by AI, after which ‘human verified, highly accurate reports with corresponding visual tags’ are sent to the user organisation, either via a customised mobile ‘app’, or email, for action. Potential applications include:
n Monitoring of suspicious and abnormal behaviour.
n Proactive security monitoring. n Car park monitoring. n Theft and pilferage monitoring. n Cash register theft detection.
Ai Group’s monitoring software ‘uses a rolling baseline to learn daily’ – constantly establishing ‘a new normal’ set of behaviours, so the system can proactively identify the ‘not normal’, and alert operators if and when it happens. The software uses customised, client-specific ‘focus priorities’ to build unique AI profiles ‘to display events that would otherwise go unnoticed’.
Ideal Standard opens £1 million showroom
Ideal Standard International, the bathroom solutions manufacturer, has seen its new £1 million Clerkenwell showroom opened with ‘a day dedicated to insight and design inspiration’. The four-storey ‘design and specification hub’ was officially opened by Group CEO, Torsten Türling, and UK MD, Stephen Ewer, on 26 June. The London Design and Specification Centre was created to bring together a variety of industry professionals, from architects and designers, to project developers and specifiers. The ‘Italian-inspired’ launch event reflected this, with discussions between Ideal Standard’s chief design officer, Roberto Palomba, and long- standing design partner, Robin Levien, on developing attitudes, trends, and influences, around bathroom design. Ideal Standard recently announced its
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exclusive partnership with renowned design studio, Palomba Serafini Associati, and the appointment of Roberto Palomba as chief design officer. The new showroom houses several ‘inspirational collections’ born out of this collaboration, including ‘a beautiful new palette’ for the Ipalyss basins. The company said: “The new flagship space also showcases another example of Studio Palomba Serafini Associati reinterpreting a classic masterpiece with the new Conca basin collection, which takes inspiration from the original, designed in 1972 by Paolo Tilche – a range that signalled a shift from pure practicality to a combination of form and function in the bathroom.” Other brands in the Ideal Standard ‘family’ are also featured, with ‘innovative healthcare and commercial washroom solutions’ from Armitage Shanks.
The laminar flow theatre was shipped from the UK, completing a 15,500-mile journey by sea over 50 days, after a storm damaged a primary theatre at The Alfred, one of Australia’s busiest hospitals. It was functional within days of its arrival following a thorough commissioning and testing process, having been extensively modified to accommodate open-heart surgery. Professor Paul Myles, the hospital’s director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, said the theatre’s installation ‘saved numerous patients from waiting weeks or months for their procedures’. He added: “The first thing we had to do was consider safety. We wanted to run simulation sessions to triple-check everything was okay. The theatre exceeded expectations, and after a thorough trial process, staff began easy surgeries there. We started with some straightforward open-heart surgery cases, which went really well; it’s the first time that open-heart surgery has been carried out in this type of portable operating theatre to my knowledge anywhere in the world.”
The theatre remained at The Alfred until repair to the hospital’s damaged theatre was completed in mid-July, and from there, Vanguard explained, would move around Australia, ‘based on where it is needed the most’.
Australian debut for Vanguard unit
Vanguard Healthcare Solutions’ first collaboration with a hospital in Australia has seen it supply a portable operating theatre to tertiary facility, The Alfred Hospital, in Melbourne, where it has been used for a claimed ‘world first’– the first open-heart operation to be undertaken in a mobile theatre environment.
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