Hanwha Vision’s SightMind Software: Making Security Devices More Efficient and Intelligent

It’s no secret that every form of technology is getting smarter, especially with the spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) putting the data we need to live our personal and professional lives right at our fingertips. Surveillance technology is no exception, moving beyond being tactical technologies and emerging as business solutions.

That’s the concept behind Hanwha Vision’s SightMind software: harnessing the data that is already being generated by the analytics in our cameras, processing the metadata and presenting it with customizable widgets and charts in a visualized dashboard. This ultimately provides valuable insights to help businesses make better informed and intelligent business decisions.

Companies across every industry are realizing the potential of data as a valuable asset to help steer their operations in the right direction. According to the research firm Gartner, most businesses increasingly prefer data-driven decision-making to intuition-based decision-making, likely accounting for the data analytics market’s forecasted annual growth of nearly 30%.

Adopting data-driven models has proven to show spikes in productivity, enhanced employee satisfaction, customer experiences and overall efficiencies.

From Hanwha’s perspective, these trends coincide perfectly with the technological evolution of our cameras and related devices. Our cameras have become more than sources of surveillance footage. The data they gather, and the associated metadata, are delivering value far beyond effective security and monitoring.

When you add the power of analytics to the same cameras monitoring a property or business, customers are able to do people-counting, heatmap creation, body temperature detection, object detection, license plate recognition, and more -- all sources of potentially invaluable business data.

Of course, data alone without context is meaningless. This new software not only delivers the right data; it helps users visualize, interpret it, apply it.

If organizations can learn to use their data effectively, then they can leverage meaningful and actionable insights into every aspect of their operations. Imagine a vision solutions ecosystem that’s smart enough to monitor itself and alert you when an incident arises.

Set to launch in the fall of 2023 as a pilot program with selected users, SightMind software is the direct result of Hanwha building on its advancements in AI. We can deploy existing solutions in new “smart” applications across a range of vertical markets and customer applications by storing, analyzing, and visualizing metadata from AI cameras and other devices.

It’s the way of the future and it’s already happening. Many vehicles, homes and businesses already have some level of smart technology and automation currently in use. That trend will only accelerate through the increased use of connected devices with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, more sophisticated mobile devices, and autonomous technologies for consumer and professional applications.

The first three “smart” markets we’ve identified as having the highest potential use for this business intelligence are retail, manufacturing, and cities. However, the potential applications in other markets are essentially limitless since any of the available widgets can be mixed and matched for any particular business running the Business Insight solution.