Blog: PSIM Trends

Public/Private Information Sharing for Mutual Benefit

Leischen Stelter of Security Director News wrote on Jan. 26 about the newly forged relationship between John Hopkins Medicine and the Baltimore Police Department.  The article discusses the two entities' plans to share information between their video surveillance systems, highlighting how this move is mutually beneficial - Hopkins improves its surveillance capabilities while the city increases its own surveillance capabilities by 25 percent.

This agreement is an example of how, more and more, public and private entities are coordinating in order to improve security.  By sharing resources, both parties are able to access more information in order to improve situation management as events occur.

However, sharing resources means more information for security personnel to sort through.  The article highlights the use of video analytic technology by the hospital as a tool to help with all of the video streaming in and the ability of it to alert dispatchers to any potential situations, but also points out that it's primarily used for historic reporting.

As technology continues to emerge that helps both public and private organizations improve security, shifting situation management from historic (or forensic) to proactive is crucial.  Here is where PSIM comes in - it integrates all of the data from all sources including video cameras and video analytic technology, provides a common set of services for analyzing and managing the incoming information, monitors for changes and automatically provides instructions or takes actions. 

As public and private coordination becomes more commonplace, PSIM technology, which includes video sharing and information sharing as two crucial components, will continue to play the critical role in tying existing security ecosystems together to help make security proactive.