Thief tries (unsuccessfully) to break into a Bentley

 

Click below to watch a clip of a Vancouver thief attempting to break into a Bentley parked in a downtown parking lot.

The video demonstrates a few things…

  1. CCTV is very rarely a deterrent to crime;
  2. the real effort in any theft from auto or burglary is getting in.

Here’s what the car looked like afterwards…

bentley

What could have helped catch this crook?

Using video analytics could have helped catch this guy in the act… video analytics allow a camera to act as an intelligent motion detector. In this case, a CCTV system with analytics could have created an alarm by recognizing the suspicious activity of the thief… such as the fact that he walked from car to car, stood too long in one place as well as the fact that he was in the parkade at all during a specific timeframe.

The system could then send an alarm signal, along with a live video feed, that an operator could view in real-time… allowing them to dispatch security and the Police to respond and apprehend the offender.

We’ve got a live demonstration of this technology set-up in our Kerrisdale showroom… give us a call if you’d like to come by and get a demo.

 

Posted July 10th, 2009 by mjagger in Uncategorized | You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 

4 Responses to “Thief tries (unsuccessfully) to break into a Bentley”

John Honovich Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

Hi Mike,

What video analytics are you using? What has your experience been?

You mentioned, analytics recognizing that a person ‘walked from car to car, stood too long in one place as well as the fact that he was in the parkade at all during a specific timeframe.” I assume its the latter two you are detecting against and not the first one?

Ian Bell Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Audio analytics — instructing security guards to pay attention when they hear a car alarm going off — may have paid off too. :)

mjagger Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

that would also work… although I’m not sure if the building where this clip is from had any guards on.

mjagger Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Hi John… the latter two are definitely easier to set-up rules for in the software… depending on the environment, we’ve set up zones that people should not be going between. ie. creating an alarm anytime someone is inside of one area and walks to another. This application has worked well when we have a camera set-up for a particular car or area that we are concerned about… not an entire parkade.

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