The world's pioneer On-Demand Security and BI Optimization Platform, Avocado Security, announced today the availability of its Version 2.0 Security & Business Intelligence (BI) Optimization Platform, making them the world's first developers of a combined Security and BI solution. Avocado Security's new technology delivers BI with security images by taking the video images from surveillance cameras and translating them into usable, intelligent, business data and statistics. Avocado Security's product suite will be showcased during the annual ISC West trade show at booth number 74120 from April 2nd through 4th.

CEO of Avocado Security, Kevin Shahbazi, said: "Our technology automates the way we look at millions of security images". "We translate security camera footage into meaningful information, including graphs, charts, and BI. So now instead of security personnel just seeing "dumb data" from numerous images across video monitors, they can actually have a solution that gives them "intelligent data" so that actionable, real-time security decisions can be made."

A key advantage of Avocado Security's technology is that it can convert video images which come from the existing security equipment that comes from one vendor, or from multiple equipment vendors (Bosch, Honeywell, GE, Siemens etc.) and translate those images into usable data. The number of times an elevator door opened, or a high level of traffic at a particular entrance or exit, or, if more traffic is at the loading dock of a hotel than at the front entrance lobbym, are examples of data that can be provided. Such information cannot be extracted by looking at security monitors and images alone.

A leading analyst firm, Frost & Sullivan, notes that by 2010 video surveillance cameras will be a $4.09 billion market. Many organizations are still challenged by some very common frustrations that remain inherent in managing through video imaging, even given society's growing reliance on surveillance technologies.Those frustrations include cameras being misaligned or pointed in the wrong direction; the equipment not functioning; the production of fuzzy imaging and blobs in the video footage; or the disconnection of camera equipment (by an intruder, disgruntled employee or by accident). But now if equipment is misaligned, disconnected, or malfunctioning, Avocado Security's technology can instantly send alerts about the malfunction so that adjustments can be made to the security system almost immediately.

Shahbazi said: "When video surveillance security images are not consistently accessible, the entire operation may be compromised. This may be due to the fact that cameras or DVRs have stopped recording or were misaligned well before an incident took place". "Avocado Security's optimization platform immediately alerts to such serious security short comings so that adjustments can be made without significant delays."