Securitas Direct is a supplier of complete safety and security solutions for homes and businesses. They are providing a wide range of intruder, fire detection and emergency service alarms connected to a central monitoring station. Additionally, they offer a complete service chain, from installation and maintenance to alarm monitoring and dispatching of security guards. Securitas Direct currently operates in 13 countries and has 1.6 million customers.

In order to offer the best safety and security video surveillance to its customers, Securitas Direct deploys ACAP enabled Axis cameras at certain customer sites and monitors these sites in their alarm receiving centres with an Axis hosted video system (AHVS). At the same time, Securitas Direct relies on IPS camera-based video analytics for real-time video surveillance and alarm verification.

IPS camera-based video analytics are intelligent analytics modules for real-time detection of security related objects or events integrated directly in Axis cameras and encoders. They are easy to install on the ACAP and to configure with a web browser. This facilitates the operation of one analytics module per camera. In addition, they provide the transmission of event data and the display of meta data within a web browser as well as within video management systems.

With this comprehensive VSaaS system, Securitas Direct is able to offer a cost-efficient and high quality video surveillance solution to its customers, which enables future expansion of the monitored customer sites while maintaining the human resource levels within the own alarm receiving centres.