Digital Barriers has announced the acquisition of Keeneo, a company providing proprietary video analytics software solutions to the security, aviation, mass-transit, energy and industrial sectors from its operational base in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Keeneo’s solutions enable the real-time detection of human intrusion and other pre-defined activities or incidents within a targeted 3D area or zone. The technology is based on a patented “4D” solution that can adapt intelligently its surveillance to manage adverse environmental effects, such as changing light or weather conditions.
Digital Barriers believes that the market opportunity for Keeneo’s video analytics software is potentially significant across the target sectors and geographies in which it operates. Video analytics capabilities are becoming an increasingly important element of the market, given the ever-increasing scale and complexity of surveillance platforms and the data they must handle. Analytics capabilities will allow Digital Barriers’ security and defence customers to not only significantly enhance their situational awareness, but also increase efficiency and reduce operating costs. Keeneo operates primarily in Europe but has recently begun to extend its presence into other regions, most notably the Middle East.