Footage is recorded and forgotten. It is seen only after an incident, defeating the purpose of installing cameras.
Audit and incident findings are not recorded in a standardized intelligent format, so actionable insights and patterns are lost.
No way to reduce data size, create a cost-effective disaster recovery mechanism, or build a knowledge repository for future decisions.
Surveillance systems drown you in footage you'll never watch.
Footage is usually reviewed only after something goes wrong. By then, the camera has done its job and the organisation has not.
Audited daily as a disciplined SOP, the same footage raises the chance of prevention, early detection, and timely intervention.
Every incident counted below was captured by a CCTV camera. In all likelihood, that footage was never reviewed daily; it was looked at only after the incident occurred.
Sample data from public domain reports; not exhaustive.
Had this footage been audited daily as a standard operating procedure, would the chances of prevention or faster response not have been higher?
COM-SUR is a force multiplier, a complete workflow. It helps users gain optimal benefits from existing CCTV surveillance systems.
Improved homeland security through crowd-sourced surveillance and community policing; crime, fraud, and loss prevention; and faster solving of crime.
Threat and hazard risk identification and mitigation; improvement of operational efficiency, processes, business continuity, root cause analysis, and total quality management efforts.
Improvement of employee performance, customer satisfaction, and sales.
Huge reduction of data size and inexpensive disaster recovery mechanisms.
Enhancement of compliance, and health and safety issues.
Ease of investigation, forensics, debriefing, and gaining business intelligence.
Audit CCTV video footage daily as a standard operating procedure to discover the unknown. With the best situational awareness, take immediate corrective and preventive action.
Save on storage costs. Enable cost-effective disaster recovery, and an institutional library of important and relevant findings. Installation is on-prem. Your data remains with you.
Create standardized intelligent reports in PowerPoint and Excel with the 5Ws + 1H and the video embedded. Gain business intelligence.
Patented COM-SUR turns 24 hours of multi-camera footage into something a human can actually review, in minutes. At a speed controlled entirely by you.
Patented. Made in India. Works with all cameras and VMS (conditions apply).
*Conditions apply.
*Conditions apply.
Verdict: it is not a hardware failure. It is a discipline failure.
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Reduce shrinkage and insurance costs, improve bottom line.
Improve employee performance; offer rewards.
Improve customer satisfaction, loyalty, and sales.
Enhance quality through visual control and operational efficiency.
Get better ROI; reduce storage and bandwidth costs.
Use human-audited visual data to support AI and machine-learning initiatives.
Mitigate risks and ensure business continuity.
Ensure that compliance issues are in order.
Enhance vigilance to prevent fraud and corruption.
Ensure health and safety of man and machine.
Irrespective of your role, just use your imagination and the video!
Your most valuable tool. It documents CCTV audit findings in a structured, standardized manner, transforming surveillance footage from passive storage into Governed Visual Intelligence.
It enables structured documentation, trend analysis, compliance trails, and human-audited visual data for AI and ML development, where applicable.
A.I. when you need it. H.I. all the time!
COM-SUR does not replace your AI. It strengthens the AI you use, or plan to use, with what most AI lacks: real, site-specific data and structured human feedback.
Routine auditing produces structured, time-stamped visual records of your own premises, not generic, public, or synthetic datasets.
As auditors log approvals, rejections, and exceptions in the Daily CCTV Video Footage Auditing Chart, each entry becomes site-specific human feedback for AI evaluation, validation, testing, refinement, and, where appropriate, further training.
We collaborate with existing AI vendors, and with organisations developing their own AI solutions.
Read the White Paper ↗Wherever there is surveillance video, there is a need. Select a sector to read its white paper.
"Cameras never lie. But how will one know, unless one 'sees' what the camera 'saw'?"
India's Ministry of Skill Development has set National Occupational Standards for "CCTV Video Footage Auditor". The Ministry of Education will introduce it as a course for grades 11 and 12. It can also be an immediate occupation for retired Police and LEA personnel.
Three modules, from fundamentals to advanced, available on Udemy.
Because COM-SUR creates exceptional value for CCTV users worldwide, we offer the COM-SUR BUSINESS version free* to selected vulnerable and public-purpose institutions.
Where safety, security, and evidence readiness are critical.
Where child safety and accountability cannot depend on budgets alone.
Where animal welfare, visitor safety, theft, negligence, and operational risks must be governed.
*Software licence is free. Integration, implementation, training, support, certification, and administration will be chargeable through authorised COM-SUR partners, where applicable.
Yearly maintenance, if required, is charged as a percentage of the full value of the software.
Founder and CEO. Author of See What the Camera Saw: The Footage Whisperer.
Subject Matter Expert in Visual Evidence Governance.
It also goes beyond video surveillance: COM-SUR's value extends to medical and multi-industry imaging, as a Visual Productivity Platform.
Study the use cases. Browse the site. Then write to us.
COM-SUR Video Surveillance and Imaging AI Technologies (P) Ltd. (Formerly Hayagriva Software (P) Ltd.), 211, Bldg. No. 1, Sona Udyog Industrial Estate, Parsi Panchayat Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400069
302, Solitaire, S.V. Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054
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