According to the World Health Organization, seven out of every ten people will live in a city by 2050—an urban population of 6.4 billion. For public service organizations, this explosion of population density means service demands that present complex safety and security challenges. Knowing what is happening and where helps, and with the global CCTV market expected to reach around $23.5 billion per year by the end of 2014, most city dwellers have accepted cameras’ watchful eye as a fixture of their urban habitat. But the sheer volume of data being captured means that human analysis is simply not fast or thorough enough to make best use of it; indeed, some estimate that up to 98 percent of CCTV footage remains unseen by anyone.
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