Netwatch:NETWATCH HAS teamed up with Clarity, the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies at Dublin City University, to develop image analysis technology which will reduce the number of false alarm calls received by police services.

Netwatch, which monitors sites using video technology from its operations centre in Carlow, received funding from Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Partnership programme for the research.

The real-time analysis will analyse images for characteristics such as shape, size and movement, preventing alarms being triggered by urban foxes or wild cats.

David Walsh, chief executive of Netwatch hopes to introduced the technology within three months.

Netwatch has invested €400,000 in research and development, including this project.