Lund, Sweden, March 1, 2006.
Cognimatics, a leader in intelligent video surveillance and Swann Communications, a global leader in security monitoring solutions and IT peripherals, announces today that the two companies are teaming up to deliver TrueView People Counter, a new and unique camera based product for automatic people counting. The product will provide customers with a highly accurate, easy to use, and low cost solution for automatic people counting. Swann will bundle Cognimatics' software with Swann's hardware and distribute the product through retail channels world wide.
Cognimatics is the developer of TrueView People Counter software. In conjunction with a Swann camera and PC Capture Card package, the software allows for business owners to accurately count how many people have entered or exited their store. TrueView People Counter is based on Cognimatics’ patent pending technology for Cognitive Vision which automatically detects objects and events in image streams. The software is extremely easy to install and use.
The product consists of a color camera connected to standard PC running TrueView People Counter. The software allows business users to access valuable information such as total visitors per day, week, month or year and compare between each of these. It also has a sophisticated statistical package to properly analyze the data. The package should be available in stores by mid 2006 and retail at the value for money price of USD $299.
We are very happy to be able to work with a market leader like Swann Communications. The partnership between our companies has resulted in a very competitive solution for people counting that will now reach customers world wide, says Rikard Berthilsson, CEO of Cognimatics.
Swann Communications (www.swann.com.au) is a global leader in security monitoring solutions and IT. peripherals aimed at consumers through retail channels. Swann's sustained growth and success has been based on designing and developing surveillance technology that is innovative yet cost effective.
Cognimatics, the leader in Cognitive Vision, is dedicated to providing efficient and innovative products within its two business segments - Mobile Communications and Intelligent Surveillance.
Founded in 2003, Cognimatics is a company with its roots at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. Behind the company is a group of world leading researchers from the research fields of Computer Vision and Cognitive Vision. More than 50% of the company's research and development staff are PhD's, known internationally for their research in the field of cognitive vision.
For more information, please visit www.cognimatics.com.
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