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July 2016 www.SecurityInfoWatch.com / Security Dealer & Integrator 21 of central processing, which may be in distributed storage devices or servers. e gateways can decode and re-en- code, in addition to performing image classification and enhancement. Located centrally, powerful servers may be configured using a GPU array. For example, Hikvision has presented a blade server product concept with 16 NVIDIA Tegra chips, citing a bal- ance between computational power and decoding performance. e device exhibits 16 Tflops (16 trillion float- ing point operations per second) at a power consumption of 300 W, com- pared with a full rack of general pur- pose CPU servers of 14 Tflops at 8 KW. Early Adoption Current GPU implementations in security are varied, covering such areas as anomaly detection, video analytic algorithms, traffic monitor- ing, facial recognition, visual search, video enhancement and analysis, VMS decoding, dewarping and screen ren- dering, and virtual VMS. "NVIDIA GPUs are critical to Pivot3's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions, including the Virtual Security Server, which enables end- users to access fully functional rich client desktop environments from any device in any location, without sac- rificing functionality, bandwidth or data security," explains Brandon Reich, Pivot3's Senior Director of Surveillance Solutions. "is vastly improves response capabilities and situational awareness, enabling organizations to reduce overall security risk." While it is still early for deep learning in the industry, a number of security manufacturers are actively working with NVIDIA on building the capabilities into new products. A notable example is Giant Gray (BRS Labs rebranded) — which for years has been developing non-rules based ana- lytics based on learning what is normal and flagging what is not. Reich believes that by addressing the issues that have limited the adop- tion of video analytics- speed and accuracy, "the power and the promise of analytics will finally be unlocked." Adds NVIDIA's Scraba: "We think this is going to be a new era in surveillance." ■ » Ray Coulombe is Founder and Managing Director of SecuritySpecifiers. com and RepsForSecurity.com. Reach him at ray@SecuritySpecifiers. com, through LinkedIn at www. linkedin.com/in/raycoulombe or on Twitter, @RayCoulombe. Client Viewing Workstations Network Switches VMS Certified Storage Solutions Guaranteed Bandwidth & Storage Calculations Network Engineering Design SMARTrestoration Five-Year Global On-Site Warranty Lifetime Phone Support Professional Services Award-Winning Tech Support Purpose-built Servers For Video Surveillance For more information visit bcdvideo.com I didn't know You did All that! Request information: www.SecurityInfoWatch.com/10455642

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