What is an AI Security Camera System?
AI Security Camera System is an advanced CCTV surveillance technology that leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate smart insights, detect anomalies and enhance security. Advanced AI algorithms help to bolster security by analysing frames from video footages, captured on CCTV hardware, through machine learning, and then generating real-time alerts and smart business insights. According to the AI Global Surveillance (AIGS) Index, which compiles empirical surveillance data from 176 countries around the world, more than 70 countries are actively deploying advanced AI surveillance tools.
AI security camera systems are mostly very scalable and can be easily integrated with existing CCTV hardware infrastructure. They monitor patterns in video and audio feeds to identify risks, count movement metrics, identify network-health risks and downtimes, and non-intrusive demographic data. With the evolving business requirements, AI surveillance for logistics is becoming increasingly popular in the Supply Chain Management domain, and numerous organisations have started embracing AI Warehouse Security Cameras as a core surveillance solution.
Top 10 Benefits of AI Warehouse Security Cameras
Artificial Intelligence Logistics Cameras, more specifically AI Warehouse Security Cameras, have already been implemented in large numbers by renowned FMCG, logistics and manufacturing companies across their sites. Let us look at the top 10 benefits of implementing AI Warehouse Surveillance Systems by logistics businesses.
Security Fencing of Warehouse Perimeter
AI warehouse security systems are custom-programmed to define the perimeter of the warehouse on a live digital map. The machine-learning algorithms of these AI logistic surveillance systems can analyse video feeds from multiple cameras within this warehouse perimeter to generate pinpointed digital summaries of each zone within the warehouse. The smart video analytics of these surveillance systems work 24/7 and monitor any malicious attempts of burglary or trespassing. False alerts from insects, dirt and moisture can be minimised with minor adjustments while training the AI model.
Enhanced Access Control
Employee entry and exit, access to restricted areas within the warehouse, and timing regulations for access can be more stringently controlled using facial recognition technology and AI warehouse CCTV systems compared to traditional biometric systems like access card, which are easy to tamper.
Fire Alerts and Prevention
AI warehouse surveillance systems, along with associated IoT devices, can monitor overheating of machinery like cranes and forklift trucks, fire-safety breach by staff (such as smoking or cooking within the warehouse), electrical short-circuits etc. AI-powered warehouse security systems can trigger real-time alerts whenever any potential risk of fire is detected within or even in near proximity of the warehouse premises.
Theft Control and Product Shrinkage
Supply chain thefts have seen an alarming rate of increase in recent years. Thefts may be committed by contractual staff or by trespassers with passive help from internal staff. The biggest problem with such crimes is that they often go unnoticed for long periods till the stolen products are scheduled to be moved out of the inventory.
AI warehouse surveillance systems, along with Smart IoT systems, employ deep-learning algorithms to identify suspicious behavioral patterns that may constitute attempts of theft within the warehouse premises. Risks associated with trespassers stealing or damaging consignments within the warehouse are also thwarted through real-time alerts triggered by the AI surveillance system to key security personnel.
AI warehouse security cameras can also be specifically programmed to monitor attempts of tampering price-tags on high-value products, forging product information tags from original products to duplicate products within the warehouse and tampering of product-scanning records at the warehouse entry and exit points.
Misplaced Inventory Tracking
Often due to human errors by the staff, items get misplaced from their designated sections within the warehouse to some other section, resulting in the audit teams marking these items as missing. AI warehouse surveillance systems can combine product-scan data with AI warehouse CCTV camera video feed data to identify the last known location of the misplaced item within the warehouse. This helps to minimise losses associated with misplaced inventory.
Improved Employee Safety
With India poised to become one of the largest global logistics hubs, serious concerns have often been raised regarding the workplace safety statistics in Indian warehouses. AI warehouse security camera systems help to significantly reduce incidents of workplace injury in the following ways:
Detecting violations of warehouse safety rules by employees and pro-actively sending alerts to warehouse managers.
Detecting machinery movement, like forklift and overhead cranes, within the warehouse and alerting operations staff to move out of the way.
Detecting spills of machine oil and corrosive material, metal scraps, and other hazardous items, and sending alerts to the warehouse cleaning staff.
Remote Monitoring
AI Smart Surveillance for logistics businesses allow store managers and key management persons to access real-time information and video-footages from the warehouse, without being physically present at the site. This provides peace of mind to managers while ensuring smooth warehouse operations.
Easy To Integrate and Scalable
Most artificial intelligence logistics surveillance systems do not require separate camera installation. The AI warehouse surveillance software can integrate with existing CCTV camera infrastructure and provide insights at satisfactory precision and accuracy levels.
Moreover AI smart surveillance systems in logistics can be implemented with a small number of cameras to pilot with, and later rolled out to the entire surveillance infrastructure. Thus the systems are highly scalable, not just within a single warehouse but across multiple warehouses operated by the same business.
Automate Routine Tasks and Ensure Compliance
Certain routine tasks like manual visits by warehouse staff to check the presence of high-value items, counting the number of consignments loaded and unloaded, attendance roster management, entry and exit records of vehicles can be automated to a large extent with AI warehouse surveillance systems. This helps to achieve greater efficiency, improved accuracy and headcount cost control.
Cost Savings from AI warehouse security cameras
AI warehouse surveillance systems can generate shop-floor movement heatmaps, which can help identify costs and inefficiencies related to Motion, one of the 7 mudas or wastes in lean operations businesses. Further, AI warehouse security systems minimise costs associated with employee accidents, theft, misplaced inventory, fire and hazards, and other predictable risks that these systems can be custom-programmed to prevent.
Cost Implications and Risks with AI Camera Systems in Logistics
Implementing AI Warehouse Surveillance Systems is associated with cost-considerations, both from an upfront cost and operational cost perspective. While upfront costs for AI warehouse security systems are minimal, as separate new hardware installations are mostly not required if the warehouse already has a CCTV network, the operational costs can be significant due to the associated software subscription charges. However these AI warehouse surveillance softwares have very short lock-in periods and hence if ROI is not justified after a few months of implementation, the logistics business can choose to no-longer renew the subscription.
Another operational cost implication of AI warehouse surveillance systems is the increased costs of processing of video feeds for analysis by the AI algorithm, though modern AI surveillance softwares use discrete frames rather than continuous video streams, thereby reducing such processing costs to a large extent.
There are some operational risks associated with AI warehouse security systems:
- Data breaches about sensitive inventory data can result in losing out business to competitor firms.
- False Alerts raised by the AI model can create unnecessary confusion and demotivate diligent employees (if the model incorrectly identifies and accuses them of malpractices).
- Downtime associated with AI warehouse security cameras poses a main concern, though systems like CheckCam by Transline Technologies effectively monitor network health.
- Privacy concerns and generic biases in AI surveillance models.
Revolutionizing Supply Chain and Logistics with AI Camera Technology
Transline Technologies is redefining Warehouse Surveillance for Supply Chain and Logistics businesses with a multitude of solutions, ranging from Smart CCTV Surveillance, IoT Solutions and Facial Recognition Solutions. StorePulse AI, powered by Transline Technologies, makes warehouse surveillance smarter with AI-powered accurate insights and real-time alerts of risks and non-compliance. StorePulse AI helps to optimise warehouse layout to minimise unnecessary movement of staff within the warehouse shop-floor, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and productivity.
Connect with our Solutions Team to understand how you can implement AI Warehouse Security Camera and Warehouse Smart Surveillance to unlock greater value for your logistics business.
