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Port Security
Pixim-Powered Cameras Help Thwart Security Concerns at Ports
The importance of port security cannot be overestimated: An estimated 80 percent of the world’s trade is transported by sea and is loaded and unloaded at ports. Port activities are varied and include container and other cargo transport, as well as use by cruise lines, fishing boats, and other commercial and pleasure vessels. In many ports globally, including those in the U.S., video cameras are crucial aspects of port security. Traditional CCD-based security cameras, however, cannot provide consistently high-quality images in the harsh lighting conditions of 24-hour port operations: everything from bright sun, reflections off containers and ships, deep shadows, and dead of night.
Common security camera problems for ports include:
- Lack of detail in high-contrast and backlight conditions outdoors
- Image wash-out in glare or with reflections from metal
- Color inaccuracies in varying lighting conditions
- Low-quality DVR recordings
Pixim’s Digital Pixel System® ultra-wide dynamic range technology, a true breakthrough in imaging technology, delivers unprecedented image quality in all lighting conditions. Cameras powered by Pixim’s specialized image processing chipsets can significantly enhance port security through the following capabilities:
- Widest dynamic range: Captures highlight and shadow detail in the same scene.
- Highest total resolution: Makes it easier to distinguish image features and details, even in highly variable lighting conditions.
- Superior color rendering: Accurately displays color even in difficult lighting such as backlight, indoor/outdoor, glare, reflection, and fluorescent lighting.
- No "camera blindness": ": Eliminates the vertical smear, pixel blooming, and other image artifacts commonly encountered in high-contrast scenes.
- High image compression: Improves image quality with smaller file size - allowing DVRs to record with higher frame rate or higher resolution, or both, while maintaining the same total recording time.
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Pixim, compared with CCD technology, enables the higher compression of images taken by security cameras, which leads to advantages for DVRs:
- Allows the use of higher-resolution settings on the DVR without sacrificing the overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR).
- Enables more frames per second to be written on the DVR without sacrificing overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR) or resolution.
- Permits the connection of more cameras to each DVR, without sacrificing resolution or frame rate.
- Provides recordings with higher image quality, for more accurate identification of people and events and more compelling evidence.
- Makes it easier to comply with FBI and other regulations that require storage of 10 to 30 days' worth of video - without sacrificing resolution, lowering the frame rate, or reducing the number of cameras connected to each DVR.
- Optimizes the investment in expensive DVRs.
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The United States processes 6 million containers annually through its ports.
