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Retail Security
Pixim-Powered Cameras Overcome Unique Challenges Faced by Retailers
Retailers worldwide might earn trillions of dollars cumulatively, but they also lose billions each year to "inventory shrinkage" – the official term for stolen goods, or shoplifting – as well as other types of losses, such as mis-scanning, under-charging, and false accusations of falls or injuries. Security cameras and public view monitors (PVMs) have become an important component of retailers’ overall security. But traditional cameras can’t "see" well what’s happening when lighting conditions aren’t optimal, including dark parking lots, with or without overhead lights; through glass doors or windows, especially with bright sunlight shining through; facing straight outdoors, as most PVMs are oriented; under fluorescent lights; or any time there’s a mix of bright light and shadows.
Common security camera problems for retailers include:
- Lack of detail, including facial features of shoppers and employees
- Inconsistent clarity in bright or low light, or high-contrast lighting situations, such as entries, checkout areas, parking lots, store aisles, and warehouses and loading docks
- Degraded or no image when there's strong glare
- Color inaccuracies in varying lighting conditions
- Low-quality DVR recordings
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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 retail security through the following capabilities:
- Widest dynamic range: Captures highlight and shadow detail - including backlit faces - in the same scene.
- Highest total resolution: Makes it easy 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, high-contrast scenes, glare, 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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U.S. retail losses from theft and fraud reached $41.6 billion in 2006, a record high (source: the National Retail Security Survey).
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that employee theft costs businesses 10 times more than the value of street crime losses annually in the U.S.
