Episode 263: A New Approach to Security Surveillance

Episode 263 originally broadcast on June 19, 2010

Ray Davis has created a video surveillance system that processes and analyzes what it sees. This application may revolutionize the security and surveillance industry—and not a minute too soon! Then, flash back with three BusinessMakers who share the events that prompted them to launch their companies.

School of Business 06/19/10

Russ and John present the show about the make-it-happen innovators and entrepreneurs. And this ain’t no summer school version! Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Day—creative thoughts from satirist Jonathan Swift; This Week in Business History includes barbed wire, Custer’s Last Stand and the C.I.A.; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak you should know; and Dumbest Moments in Business History—a British woman gets a faulty lung transplant.

Ray Davis - Behavioral Recognition Systems (BRS)

Video surveillance systems can be ineffective because they rely on people to monitor and interpret what the camera sees. Davis has created an artificial neural network, a video system that processes and analyzes what it sees; it observes and determines what is “normal” for an area, based on its own learned behavior. The camera decides when a person or action is out of the norm and then will raise an alarm. Russ interviews Ray Davis, CEO of BRS Labs. His approach may revolutionize the security and surveillance industry—and not a minute too soon!

Flashback - Idea Triggers

Russ flashes back to three BusinessMakers who share the events that prompted them to launch their companies. Bill Spencer, founder and CEO of Hawaii Oceanic Technologies Inc. in Honolulu, developed a deep water farming environment. When Inaki Orozco, founder of Riazul Imports, inherited family land, he was presented with an opportunity of circumstance and coincidence. Farouk Shami created the BioSilk and CHI brand products.