Imaging - 360° Technology

The advantages of 360° "smart" video-surveillance technology over traditional pan, tilt, zoom (PTZ) cameras are many:

• Cover wide areas with no blind spots
• Have no moving parts, life-expectancy and covertness are significantly increased while maintenance costs are reduced
• Fewer cameras and infrastructure required to monitor a scene and a greater area is covered with a reduced number of cameras
• Eliminate the mechanical delay in traditional pan, tilt, zoom (PTZ) cameras
• Allow for greater operator flexibility when configuring for live and recorded viewing, including defining polygonal areas of interest and areas of privacy
• Provide powerful signal processing, ensuring that an area is continuously available for intelligent image analysis
• Allow for multiple dewarped views of the scene, in addition to a single 360° overview fisheye image with independent PTZ analysis
• One fisheye lens allows for simultaneous tracking of up to four targets or events; therefore targets cannot be lost from view by moving in different directions
• Minimise network bandwidth usage, as the hemispheric view enables frame rates to be lowered while any activity remains in view for longer on the camera
• Detect all objects moving through the field of view, regardless of their velocity

By providing total situational awareness, Oncam Global's solutions are able to see the whole scene in real time or in playback using 360° technology. Ground-breaking recording solutions provide the ability to review incidents as if in real time, with the exact same PTZ capability that exists with live video. The reward of 360° technology can be counted not only in financial terms, but also in people's safety and lives.

Powered By Grandeye

Grandeye is the technology arm of Oncam Global Group, providing award-winning, patent-protected 360° technology that delivers many advantages over the industry's traditional single-view and existing fisheye cameras. With every Oncam Global 360-degree security solution the technology behind it is powered by Grandeye.

At the core of Grandeye’s technology is ZiiLabs’ powerful media-rich application processors, hardware platforms and advanced middleware that allow many sophisticated imaging analytics to be quickly processed within the cameras themselves. Grandeye has developed ‘smart’ camera technology that greatly reduces system complexity and cost when compared with other approaches. Grandeye also holds exclusive rights within these markets to use the ITK (Imaging Tool Kit) from the former IPIX Company.

In-camera Dewarping

The key to Grandeye's technology is that housed within its cameras are powerful single-chip image processors that carry out tera operations per second on captured video data. This is a huge differentiator, offering significant advantages to installers and end users that result in reduction of system costs and complexity.

All Oncam Global cameras utilise Grandeye's multi-megapixel image sensors and high-quality fisheye lenses that offer a hemispherical view of the world which, together with sophisticated image processing, enables us to generate multiple views. These views include fisheyes and dewarped views, such as virtual cameras that can pan, tilt and zoom around the scene, as well as panoramas for an overview.

Video Analytics

Oncam Global's cameras are so powerful that not only do they enable real-time views of a scene in multiple formats, but they also include Grandeye's own onboard 360° video analytics software.
This software is configurable to perform motion detection, motion tracking and even simultaneous tracking of multiple targets. Because Oncam Global's cameras offer four independent virtual cameras, each with independent PTZ, motion tracking can be enabled in each one. The cameras also include sophisticated, but simple-to-use event-management tools for configuring motion detection, external inputs and other triggers.

PTZ on Playback

Grandeye's technology innovation extends beyond live viewing. By enabling high-resolution recording of the entire fisheye view, independent of what an operator is doing, images can be processed during playback as if they were live images. During playback, images can be dewarped, and virtual cameras can be generated enabling the viewer to pan, tilt and zoom around the entire scene. The result is that investigations can be carried on as if the video were live.

Technology Awards

Around the world, Grandeye's technology has consistently won prestigious awards for innovation and effectiveness.