Loss Prevention White Papers
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Mobile Access To Retail Video Is Finally Practical
1/29/2016
Over the past several years, mobile clients such as smartphone and tablet apps have become a common method to access video on DVRs and video cameras. Most video recorders or video recording software is accompanied by an app which, along with some configuration on site, can be used to access live or recorded video.
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Share Video Quickly And Easily
1/29/2016
We heard a great story from one of our customers this week. To identify a shoplifter, the store posted to their Facebook page a short video of the suspect. Within 14 hours, the suspect was in custody.
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Granting And Revoking Access To Video On A BYOD Device
1/29/2016
Does your company allow employees to use their personal smart phone or tablet for business purposes? This option is commonly referred to as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD can be a great way to reduce IT costs.
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Managing Network Traffic
1/29/2016
A while ago I was at a customer site where MultiSight was being installed. I noticed that they already had a video system in the store–your typical low cost DVR with analog cameras. This system was being replaced by MultiSight. I asked the customer if this DVR setup had worked for them. The answer was “Yes, but whenever we’d try to see the video remotely, we couldn’t process credit cards.” Attempts to view video remotely would saturate their network connection out of the store, and interfere with their Point of Sale (POS) system’s ability to process credit cards.
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Video Analytics From MultiSight: All Value, No Fuss
1/29/2016
In designing features like heatmaps and people counting, we exploit opportunities of MultiSight’s overall architecture in ways many other video systems cannot, so that we can offer these features at lower cost and with greater flexibility.
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MultiSight’s Health Monitoring Delivers Unprecedented Manageability
1/29/2016
One of the many values that MultiSight provides is manageability. To us, manageability means the ability to keep stores online at all times, even if a customer has hundreds of sites with thousands of cameras and recorders. Our MultiSight Gateway is designed with manageability in mind, and system health monitoring is an important part of that.
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Boyett Petroleum Simplifies Video Surveillance With Multi-Store Cloud-Based Solution
1/29/2016
“Yes we have video, but I wouldn’t call it a video solution.” So began our first conversation with Scott Castle, Vice President of Retail Operations at Boyett Petroleum.
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The Profitability Of Proactivity In LP
1/25/2016
Anyone who has worked with me in my organizations know that I am all about developing a proactive loss prevention/asset protection program and effectively deploying it for successful shrink reduction.
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Network Video’s Impact On The Retail Enterprise
12/21/2015
IRT talks with Hedgie Bartol, Business Development Manager for Retail at Axis Communications about the effect of video on retailer networks along with the benefits of network video to SMRs, the biggest security concerns for retailers in 2016, and how retailers can gain insight into the large amount of network video they are collecting.
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How LP Impacts Positive And Negative Customers
12/9/2015
After spending 30 years in the retail world at multiple levels of retail leadership, I have come to the conclusion that we can boil our relative customer base down into two simple categories...