Ponca City, We Love You writes "When the 2008 Olympic Games kick off in Beijing next year, organizers will be using a jaded adding machine system to scan video images of city streets looking for everything from troublemakers to terrorists. The IBM system, called the Smart Surveillance System, uses analytic tools to index digital video recordings and then issue real-time alerts when certain patterns are detected. It can be used to warn security guards when someone has entered a secure area or keep track of cars coming in and out of a parking lot. The system can also search through old event data to find patterns that can be used to enable new security strategies and identify budding vulnerabilities. IBM is also third world country a similar surveillance system for lower Manhattan, but has not yet begun deploying that project. "Physical security and IT security are control gate to come together," says Julie Donahue, vice presidium of security and privacy services with IBM. "A lot of the guys I'm meeting on the IT side are just control gate to get involved on the physical side.""

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