News & Updates
Hello everyone!
We haven’t discussed Faceter with you recently, but it’s all for good reason. We have come a long way in terms of creating a new product, the functionality of which hasn’t been developed before. This is a very time-consuming process that requires full commitment and the use of all possible resources. But now we have something we can’t wait to share with you!
But first we will answer perhaps your most popular question:
What’s up with the Faceter App?
Apple users can go to the App Store and download the Faceter application right now. This version of the application will allow to test all of the features of Faceter app. Later, this opportunity will appear also for Android users.
For those of you who just want to see how the application works without downloading it, we have prepared a short video.
In this video you can see how convenient the application is, as well as how easy it is to work with video stream and archives in the Faceter application. You can easily switch between dates and cameras, select the desired video segments and save or send it. You can also go to full-screen mode or zoom in on any frame.
As you may know, we’ve also launched a beta test and you can join testing here.
Development
Those who have been with us for a long time will probably remember that initially, in the MVP, all the functionality of Faceter was contained in one application. However, at the beginning we set ourselves a very ambitious goal: to make Faceter convenient and useful for very different people and industries, including businesses, manufacturing, private users, etc. The more we developed the product, the more we realised that our initial understanding of the product required significant improvement in order to reach our goal.
We worked with hundreds of cameras and dozens of manufacturers. We knew about all the chaos in the market, about the complete absence of a single principle of operation, and about a huge number of errors in the protocols with which cameras work. Eventually we came to the conclusion that in order for us to be able to scale the product and to make it truly convenient it’s not the best application that we need, but the best ecosystem in which each product solves a separate task. By combining them into a system, we will get the Faceter that we have been planning to create.
For the user this does not change anything, but outside of their smartphone or web browser there will now be a large, well-structured mechanism. After months of planning, today we are able to reveal some of the details concerning its structure:
The first part is the Video Surveillance Server by Faceter. It connects and collects audio and video streams from cameras, maintains an archive, provides API access to the archive and to the cameras. It also transfers data to mobile apps.
The second is Face Recognition by Faceter, which is a recognition server and analytics system. It connects to the video archive and analyzes the video / audio streams stored there.
Look out for more exciting product announcements in the near future on the entire Faceter ecosystem, how the miners and users of the service will interact, and how and why it will be as convenient as possible. We’re working very hard on development at the moment, and we promise to keep you all updated throughout each step of this exciting process.
What’s new
Now for a little more about our achievements in the development of Faceter. Our team have been tirelessly working on improving the Faceter video surveillance platform, with a focus on stability and performance. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from our first testers and customers, and we’ve worked really hard to make sure our product is as user-friendly as possible. Here are some of Faceter’s cutting-edge features:
Motion recognition and smart video recording
Faceter now only records a video when a movement has been recognized.
This will significantly reduce the data storage. Just imagine how much less space you’ll need to store video data! This feature makes it much more convenient to record at night or to activate video surveillance of the warehouse, for example.
Work with the archive
This the feature we are most proud of, as it has not been implemented in such a useful way in any other product we’ve come across so far. In the video below, you can see how fast and easy it is to interact with the video archive.
You can navigate to any point in the timeline without having to wait for it to load. Instead you have a whole video canvas, and you can instantly switch to any frame from the archive. Isn’t that fantastic?
Sound recording
Moreover, in the near future Faceter will be able to record audio in AAC format to the archive and play it on mobile clients. However, don’t forget to make sure your camera supports this particular format first.
Faceter.io update
Soon we will update the website with a personal account and a demo version of the web application, giving you an opportunity to try it out on your desktop.
Don’t forget to stay in touch, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Reddit for more exciting updates.
Yours,
The Faceter team
