This article looks at some of the best-of-its-kind Taiwan-made video surveillance offerings on display at Secutech Taiwan.
Needless to say, Taiwan is a global manufacturing powerhouse for video surveillance products and solutions. From network cameras to smart NVRs, Made-in-Taiwan video surveillance equipment and devices wow the world with their powerful features and performance. This article looks at some of the best-of-its-kind MIT video surveillance offerings on display at Secutech Taiwan held May 7 to 9.
Cutting-edge surveillance solutions
With all the right elements in place – connectivity, powerful processing and a wealth of data on the Internet – time is ripe for generative AI, which is already popular among users from all walks of life and is now finding its way to security, where search can be done easier than ever via generative AI. VIVOTEK, for example, showcased their groundbreaking innovations in AI and cloud technology under the theme “Make tomorrow easier, today.” One of the highlights of VIVOTEK’s AI-powered cloud video surveillance platform, VORTEX, was the “Search by Text” feature integrated with the vision language models (VLM). With “Search by Text,” the user could quickly locate people and vehicles from vast archives using natural language descriptions. For example, a user could search for "a white SUV at Taichung factory on the afternoon of May 7” – eliminating the need for complex search criteria. “Search by Text” also enables much more detailed queries, such as "a man pulling two suitcases yesterday” or “a white Tesla in front of the driveway yesterday."
FUHO Technology, which markets its products under the Vacron brand, showcased a range of video-based security and mobility solutions. Security solutions included: license plate recognition for vehicle access and parking management and traffic flow management; facial recognition for access control and time-attendance; and humanoid identification for visitor management, crowd management and loitering alert applications. Mobility solutions included specialized mobile DVRs which can integrate with ADAS, facial recognition cameras and front seat cameras. All of the above can be managed and processed by a compact-size server that boasts powerful processing and reporting functions.
“Instead of the previous large server architecture, users can opt for our compact-size server that can connect with 30 to 50 devices including IP cameras and mobile DVRs. This presents a cost-effective solution that makes company operations more automated than ever. For example, employees can clock in only by scanning their faces, and HR will know their earliest and latest scans through the server’s reporting function to know employee’s time-attendance,” said Ulysses Tsai, Product Manager at FUHO.
Merit LILIN showcased their new-generation AI-enabled thermal cameras that could detect abnormalities and irregularities in total darkness. What’s different this year is that while last year the AI was still in trial stage, this time the cameras were all equipped with mature AI allowing intelligent monitoring. “For example, I put it at a harbor. If at the wrong time, for example at 12 a.m. or 1 a.m. an unknown ship or an unknown person shows up, I can instantly detect it and notify operators accordingly,” said a LILIN spokesperson at the booth, adding the solution was already deployed at prisons, ports, and large shopping malls in Taiwan.
From surveillance to smart applications
Increasingly, video surveillance is not just for monitoring; users also deploy video solutions for a range of non-security applications for example smart transportation, which was a main theme at Secutech. Hunt for example displayed their smart parking navigation light, each integrated with a camera which can detect parking availability and tell the light to flash the corresponding color. 3S showcased their cutting-edge smart rail solutions including a thermal-visible light bi-spectral camera where objects on the track giving off heat can be detected and visually verified. AVTech, meanwhile, displayed their AI-enabled DVRs and NVRs that can be part of an entry/exit solution; when working with a camera deployed at the parking entrance, the NVR can instantly tell whether an incoming vehicle is whitelisted or blacklisted, and get the system to grant/deny entry accordingly.
Overseas exhibitors rock, too
Not just Taiwan companies, overseas companies also had a strong presence at the show exhibiting their cutting-edge video surveillance solutions. Among them was U.S.-based Network Optix (Nx) which displayed the sixth generation of their Enterprise Video Operating System (EVOS). A highlight of the latest generation of the software is AI Manager allowing users to seamlessly add intelligence to their video solutions. When it comes to deployment, AI Manager allows instant deployment of AI models across a range of industry-leading accelerators including CPUs, GPUs and NPUs (neural processing units). AI Manager can also scale AI solutions across diverse environments, from individual devices to enterprise-scale operations.
According to Jason Lee, Platform Manager for APAC at Nx, this addresses several pain points end users are often faced with. “AI is great, yet installation can be a challenge. If there’s is just a single location, it may be easy to install. But many of our clients are multi-location businesses or even multinationals. How can I install my AI on twenty servers in five countries at the same time? This is how AI Manager can work wonders,” he said.
Lee adds that EVOS can benefit a variety of entities including enterprises, factories, schools and retail stores. “We have a very famous car factory in North America. The electric car factory has installed 15,000 cameras, all of which are managed using EVOS,” he said.
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