Do you know that there are more than 5 thousand museums in Russia, of which 2.7 thousand objects are financed as”culture” from various budgets? At the same time, to open a private museum (the goal is to make a profit), it is enough to open the status of an individual entrepreneur or a company (LLC). A museum organization can also work as a non-profit association if it is financed by donations, external funding, and participants’ contributions. In one case or another, the museum needs a system to ensure security and collect marketing information. These functions are easily performed by video surveillance and video analytics. This is what our article is about.
Museums have several specific features when installing video surveillance:
The goals of introducing video surveillance and video analytics in museums are:
Museum video content analysis software such as Faceter is capable of providing many functions. In particular, we are talking not only about ensuring the safety of the object and exhibits but also about several other essential functions.
The prospect of using intelligent video analytics in museums lies in the prevention of offences and crimes. Machine vision, combined with the use of clear scenarios and specific patterns of a violation, makes it possible to identify a potential violator before the offence is committed (for example, before approaching particularly valuable exhibits).
INTERESTING FACT: in 2013, the theft of paintings by Monet, Picasso and Matisse (totalling $ 24 million) took place in Rotterdam at the Kunsthal Museum. The same year, a Romanian citizen pleaded guilty to this theft and … filed a lawsuit against the museum leaders. The claim was that the robbery turned out to be too simple and easy, and the security systems were not of high quality (they did not work).
The camera in the museum can be used to investigate events that have occurred.
VIDEO ROBBERY: Videos of robbers who entered a Dresden museum at night armed with flashlights and axes leaked on the web in the fall of 2019. The police have reconstructed the exact timeline of the event.
To improve visitors experience and manage their flows, museums create patterns of people movement:
Heat maps are used to visualize internal processes.
Every third robbery of museums is committed in collaboration with employees.
For example:
That is why work process control and video surveillance are a mandatory requirement in the museum business. Additional video analytics capabilities:
A modern online camera in a museum can collect and analyze a large amount of marketing data:
To optimize the costs of maintaining the museum building, it is advisable to configure the “smart office” functions. In particular, video analytics can predict and record:
Video surveillance in the checkout area and the museum’s souvenir shop performs two functions:
Intelligent video analytics provides museum staff, marketing and security services with a variety of valuable information. It is used for effective workforce planning, managing people’s flow, and delivering better service to its audience.
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