Sramana Mitra: And what is happening in the financial sector? Derek Rodner: That was the third sector I was thinking about. So again, the three are genomics, meteorology, and finance. Dealing with global markets, dealing with statistical analysis, the intern space, which is a part of finance – all of those areas are definitely big
Sramana Mitra: You are primarily involved in the retail space, but what other industries are potentially big adapters of big data in regards to video analytics? Derek Rodner: Any public sector area. I am talking about airports, train stations, subway stations, and so on. [Governments are actually using this] now in city and state parks.
Sramana Mitra: Could you tell me a bit more about how this works from a technological perspective? “Tying an event down to the millisecond level in a video” – how do you do that? Derek Rodner: That is actually our special [approach]. In addition to being the only player in the retail operations big data
Sramana Mitra: Your approach sounds unique. I hear a lot of stories about customer analytics, but you are talking about operations, and that is quite different. The best way to illustrate what happens with using your technology are use cases. Feel free to pick whichever customer you have permission to talk about and take us
Derek Rodner is the vice president of product strategy at Agilence, an industry-leading company in retail big data. In this interview Derek talks about the implications of more widespread use of big data on retail video surveillance and security systems, and about future trends in the industry. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Derek. Could you please start