Countdown Technologies, Inc.

Countdown Technologies Inc. and CA Technology Inc. has partnered to deliver a state of the art Enterprise Surveillance solution. eVision is our team’s digital video surveillance product, providing the solution of choice for both live and recorded video. This distributed and powerful system – based on open standards – combines several unique features:

Modular Design – the separation of the video compression hardware from the storage medium (a Windows server) – provides customers with the option of a distributed wiring topology, lowering installation and cable costs.
Multiple “Live” Frame Rates - the industry’s highest video throughput – provide access to full motion live video images across multiple channels simultaneously, eliminating the requirement for costly analog switchers and distribution amps.
Distributed Access – improves availability by providing local and remote viewing.
Concurrency – with multiple image streams the system accommodates simultaneous viewing of live and recorded images from multiple clients at multiple frame rates.
Scalability – from small systems to hundreds of cameras, providing the option of adding cameras and storage at a later date.
Granularity – instant access to live streams and individual images, providing higher efficiency of use both locally and across both high- and low-bandwidth networks.
Easy installation – connect any 8 or 16 cameras to an image management module, connect the IMM to a TCP/IP network, and install eVision on any Wintel server from a CD-ROM – reducing installation headaches and lowering maintenance costs.

Our team’s eVision solutions are built to utilize our state-of-the-art image management modules (IMMs). The IMM provides higher aggregate throughput – up to 960 images per second across 16 channels, higher compression rates – using the latest in wavelet technology, variable and user controlled image rates and quality, and a host of other features. Currently two versions of the product are available, with more to come:

StoreVision
StoreVision, our team’s flagship product is a digital video auditing and surveillance system targeted at the retail environment. The StoreVision solution combines all the advantages of an eVision digital video system with powerful data-mining tools and retail specific investigative techniques, allowing retail management to accurately identify and reduce shrink at the point-of-sale, pinpoint operational problems and equipment failures, and identify training issues. In sum, it is a superior tool for increasing the effectiveness of operational management.

Synchronized video and data.
Anytime, anywhere access to 24 by 7 image recording (All the data, all the video, all the time)
Superior granularity of images and data, providing point and click access to images of individual receipt items.
Real-time transaction processing engine providing instant access to individual items and messages on a real-time basis.
Powerful data-mining software.
Integrated reporting capability including data, images and auditors comments.
Distributed access across an intranet of the Internet.

Using this powerful retail auditing solution our customers are generating immediate increases in apprehensions (often doubling or tripling their counseling and termination rates) and more importantly, long-term improvements in productivity and shrink. Benefits of the system accrue to multiple users:

TollVision
TollVision is an enterprise application, based on our team’s industry-leading eVision technology that integrates digital video images and transaction data from tolling and transportation systems. Developed together with eTransit, a supplier of software and solutions to the electronic tolling industry, the TollVision solution helps management oversee toll operations, and is utilized by operations and loss prevention specialists as well as financial auditors. The application combines video images with transaction data captured from the toll transaction systems, and makes both images and data accessible to clients across a network.