Fall Detection

Detect when the person has been unexpectedly lying on the ground for more than 5 seconds

Overview

What is Fall Detection?
Fall Detection is the AI feature that distinguishes the persons lying on the ground from the sitting and standing people. It is not easy for a human to monitor all the channels manually to notice all kinds of unexpected behavior. Therefore, a person falling down may easily go unnoticed for a period of time.

Thanks to AI, the falling would be detected instantly. When the fallen person does not stand or sit up within 5 seconds, the alarm will be activated automatically. The security personnel will see the instant video highlight to confirm the situation. If the person has been injured then such early alarm can help save their life, as many of the injuries related to falling down are time critical!

Applications

There are various applications that would benefit from the AI-assisted fall detection. For example, the factories with dangerous mechanical equipment - if the worker is suddenly collapsing to the floor, the AI will detect it immediately and the alarm will be activated, in order to save the person immediately.

The city surveillance cameras can look for the fallen people on the streets, especially during the winter when the roads and sidewalks may be slippery.

In the hospitals and the nursing homes, the cameras will notice when the person in the emergency room or elsewhere in the premises has collapsed. The doctors would be notified immediately.

Children playgrounds have the climbing equipment which are considered safe by the standards, but rarely the accidents may still happen. If the surveillance system detects the child lying on the ground there, the emergency services would be dispatched immediately.

Solutions

It is possible to use ACTi's Fall Detection cameras together with ACTi's ZNR-series NVR or with Windows-based NVR 3 servers. The VMS will receive the fall detection alerts from the cameras and handle the events by video pop-up, sound alert, sending an email alert and more.

Furthermore, some of the latest ZNR-series NVR servers have the built-in Fall Detection capability - it is possible to use a regular surveillance camera without built-in AI and still run the fall detection thanks to the NVR-side AI capabilities.
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