Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi) is a leading provider of open architecture, video analytics software deployed in a variety of security, safety and business intelligence applications worldwide. The comprehensive video analytics solutions offered by Agent Vi extend from real-time video analysis and alerts to forensic search and post-event analysis, and are fully integrated with a range of third party edge devices and video management systems. Integrating Agent Vi's advanced video analytics capabilities into existing or new surveillance networks enables users to benefit from the true potential of their surveillance networks, transforming them into intelligent tools that respond to the practical challenges of the 21st century.

Agent Vi’s Unique Architecture 

Agent Vi is the only video analytics company that has developed an architecture that provides end users with cost effective, highly scalable video analytics solutions that offer a full range of analytics functionalities simultaneously, without sacrificing on detection performance. All competing solutions on the market today fall into one of two architectural categories:

1. Server based – the video is delivered to a server in analog format or compressed over the network. The analytics algorithms run inside the server and process the incoming video feeds. A single server typically supports 4-16 cameras with the quality of detection and feature set declining as the number of supported cameras increases.

2. Edge based – the video is processed by an embedded device – either an encoder for handling analog cameras or an IP camera – sitting at the edge of the network. The analytics algorithms run inside the edge device and send information about detected events over the network. This architecture typically suffers from limited processing resources which in turn limit the features and detection performance of the analytics algorithms. 

In contrast, Agent Vi’s unique, patented, Image Processing over IP (IPoIP™) architecture distributes the video analysis between the edge device and a server, offering a number of significant advantages:

• High detection rates – The advanced algorithms offer very high probability of detection (POD) and low false alarm rates (FAR) for a variety of video analytics tasks, and in a range of complex environments, including indoor, outdoor and crowded scenes;
• Highly scalable – A server with a quad core processor can support up to 200 cameras running a variety of analytics tasks. Server capacity can easily be increased to thousands by adding additional processors or server machines.
• Future proof – Since most new features are developed on the server side, upgrading edge device firmware is unnecessary when a new product version is released or when analytics functionalities are added. Future increases in required processing resources are easily handled by adding an additional server.
• Bandwidth usage - Each edge device uses an average bandwidth of only 40 Kbps when performing analytics. 

Agent Vi’s Products

Vi-System is a real-time video analytics software that transforms standard surveillance networks into intelligent and effective detection and alert systems.

By performing real-time analysis of the video stream, Vi-System identifies and generates alerts for a variety of user-defined events relating to people, vehicles and objects. Used for applications such as security, safety and business intelligence, Vi-System offers effective monitoring of multiple video sources in parallel, enabling automatic detections, alerts and responses to events, as they emerge.

Based on Agent Vi's open architecture, pure software approach, Vi-System can be easily integrated with a wide range of edge devices and video management systems, in both new and existing surveillance networks.

Vi-System boasts the combined benefits of superior detection performance, high scalability, installation simplicity and ease of use, making Vi-System the most advanced, comprehensive and cost effective real-time video analytics solution on the market. Vi-System’s detection performance has been independently verified, with Vi-System (Ver 3.3 SP1) approved by i-LIDS as a primary detection system for operational alert use in sterile zone monitoring applications, following comprehensive testing by the UK Home Office Scientific Development Branch.

Vi-Search is an innovative video search software that performs automatic and rapid search, retrieval and analysis of specific video segments, events and data from vast amounts of recorded video.

Through Vi-Search, all video streams in a surveillance network are analyzed as they are recorded, and events and features are indexed and stored. Using Vi-Search's advanced and intuitive interface, users search for specific events and data which are retrieved automatically, replacing the time-consuming and ineffective alternative of manual review of recorded video. Based on Agent Vi's open architecture, pure software approach, Vi-Search can be easily integrated with a wide range of edge devices and video management systems, in both new and existing surveillance networks. Vi-Search allows true leveraging of stored video by enabling instantaneous forensic searches, analysis of motion patterns and extraction of statistical data for applications such as security, post-event analysis and business intelligence. Markets

Agent Vi’s video analytics solutions are deployed in multiple projects across a range of vertical markets including in Mass Transportation, City Surveillance, Critical Infrastructure / Utilities, Government Facilities, Highway Surveillance, Retail and more.