Vodafone has introduced an unlimited data plan tailored for businesses requiring live video feeds from IoT-enabled smart surveillance cameras over a mobile network.
This initiative, part of the UK operator’s Connected Spaces Vision, aims to address the limitations of traditional CCTV systems, including bandwidth constraints, high costs, and security issues. It achieves this by offering features that conventional wireless CCTV systems lack, such as secure Cloud storage and instant alerts for the detection of individuals and vehicles, all while lowering data transmission expenses and providing customers with both peace of mind and predictable pricing.
Connected Spaces Vision, developed in collaboration with Digital Barriers, a leading firm in AI video compression and analytics, leverages Digital Barriers’ unique AI-driven video codec. This codec can reduce bandwidth demands by as much as 90%, operating over Vodafone’s IoT network. It is compatible with standard IP cameras, enhancing them with analytical capabilities without necessitating the replacement of existing systems. This solution is ideal for sectors with remote, mobile, or temporary operations where traditional wired CCTV is impractical or too expensive to install.
Key sectors include:
Construction: Enhances worker safety (e.g., alerts when entering restricted areas) and monitors valuable assets after hours with easily relocatable CCTV.
Utilities: Offers visibility of assets in remote locations and instant alerts on tampering, eliminating the need for expensive fixed infrastructure.
Manufacturing and Logistics: Provides live visibility and insights across production, warehousing, transportation, and logistics, with the flexibility of mobile technology for camera movement and real-time alerts.
Local Government: Increases visibility in city centres, transport networks, and retail areas with easily movable CCTV, avoiding the costs of fixed installations.
Security Integrators: Enables the deployment of mobile cameras for enhanced visibility at large venues and events, ensuring attendee safety.
Andy May, Head of Products and Services at Vodafone Business, stated: “The CCTV market in the UK is expanding, and with Vodafone Connected Spaces Vision, we aim to assist businesses in overcoming the primary challenges of managing their CCTV estate through dependable connectivity, instant intelligence, and predictable costs. Leveraging Vodafone’s premier IoT network alongside Digital Barrier’s innovative compression technology allows for real-time alerts precisely when and where they’re needed.”
Kunal Shukla, CTO at Digital Barriers, commented: “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Vodafone, bringing our top-tier video platform to a broad customer base, enabling them to fully utilise live video for safeguarding their personnel and assets, and facilitating immediate organisational insights and actions. Our technology, validated over a decade with leading defence and security agencies worldwide, drastically reduces the costs of live streaming by up to 90%, ensuring dependable live video transmission over limited networks.”
Digital Barriers is a UK-based provider of video technology that equips individuals, organisations, and societies with instant insights for critical decision-making. Its patented AI-based video codec and secure edge platform support clients across various sectors – including law enforcement, public safety, industry, transportation, defence, events, retail, healthcare, and hospitality – in harnessing the power of real-time video.
For a decade, Digital Barriers has collaborated with governments, military units, specialised law enforcement agencies in the defence sector, and numerous clients in the public and private sectors. Today, it partners with global network operators like Vodafone to deliver reliable real-time video over cellular and other transmission technologies, offering up to a 90% reduction in bandwidth costs without compromising quality in low-latency environments.
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