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# Smart cameras and sensors to monitor, protect and promote UNESCO World Heritage

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Implementing intelligent sensor and video security technology can effectively help monitor and protect our World Heritage sites from environmental and direct damage, support responsible visitor management, and destination development and tourism.  #TechnologyForGood

 Ava has partnered with [World Heritage Catalysis](http://www.whcatalysis.org/partners)  to support transformative visitor management offering individual UNESCO World Heritage sites powerful solutions at very [favourable terms](https://www.whcatalysis.org/ava).

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## How Ava’s solutions can contribute to transformative tourism and visitor management

See full details of how we are supporting UNESCO here.

- ![](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/World%20Heritage/A.jpg)
  
  #### A. Effective governance and visitor management protecting heritage values
  
    - Monitor, visualize and report on visitor volumes, behavior,  and impact across sites in real-time with smart cameras and sensors
    - Prevent adverse impact from too many visitors, vandalism, or environmental impact
    - Communicate and promote value of World Heritage sites through real-time high definition video streaming
- ![](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/World%20Heritage/b_waste.jpg)
  
  #### B. Contribution to environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation
  
    - Monitor and record development in sensitive environments through smart cameras and sensors for e.g. temperature, precipitation, CO2 and humidity
    - Measure visual, noise and light pollution
    - Protect against negative impact from visitation, waste dumping and vandalism through built-in image recognition and line crossing capabilities, detecting suspicious behaviour
    - Integrate with other sensors and HVAC systems to monitor e.g. energy usage
- ![](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/World%20Heritage/c_fire.jpg)
  
  #### C. Contribution to inclusive social development and cultural sustainability
  
    - Monitor and detect safety, security, health and hygiene aspects by detecting anomalies and incidents like screams, fire, falls etc.
    - Integrate with security providers, fire departments etc. to reduce risk and impact of adverse incidents
- ![](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/aware-heatmaps-2.gif)
  
  #### D. Contribution to inclusive and sustainable economic development
  
    - Monitor, record and identify commercial activities
    - Continuous video monitoring with heatmaps, counting and timeseries showing number of people and most visited areas over time
    - Camera based solution with interactive map allows efficient inventory management and monitoring

![3 cameras white](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Video%20visual%20assets/Video%20-%20Complete%20solution/New%20March%202021/3%20cameras%20white.jpg)

### Proactive protection of sensitive sites with low-footprint digital sensors

Ava Security’s intelligent video cameras have award-winning minimalist design, sustain extreme conditions (-40C to +50C) and can be deployed anywhere with optional solar power and mobile data access. Providing live video feed and advanced analytics like abnormality detection (e.g. crowd gathering, vandalism and fire) and supporting environmental sensors (e.g. temperature, humidity and CO2) in the same interface.

With cloud-based deployment, abnormality notification can be sent directly to local stewards via app or web-based interface, while data can be aggregated and shared also on regional or global level.

Ava has a range of intelligent video security cameras and sensors.

![img_aware-timeline](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Video%20visual%20assets/Video%20-%20Aware/img_aware-timeline.jpg)

### Manage sites with real-time monitoring and insights

Easily accessible from anywhere through web or app interface, the Aware solution provides intuitive video security interface and analytics such as people and vehicle identification and counting. Suitable for both large, distributed installations and small deployments, Aware analyses all the video feeds from both Ava and third-party cameras all the time and in real-time. It identifies objects and events, sending instant alarms based on rules and unusual activity detection.

With Aware, you can also quickly search by event, object, and similarity to find a specific person, vehicle, or event of interest through countless hours of video within seconds or minutes.

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### Modern security solutions for an historic town

As a town council, Soham must answer to its residents. They took a great leap of faith in investing in an entirely new system for their town. With their commitment to securing their community and a little assistance from Ava experts, the results have already started to pay off. 

[Read the customer story](https://www.avasecurity.com/customer-stories/soham-town-council-modern-security-solutions)

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### Reach out to us to discuss your needs?

Get in touch with the team at Ava Security today.

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### Promote and enable non-invasive digital experiences through live streaming

Ava cameras support live streaming to any website, which can be used to promote and/or provide a non-invasive digital experience of the heritage sites.

![Fjords Preview](https://os.avasecurity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Live%20feed/Oslo%20fjord/Fjords%20Preview.jpg?width=460&height=306)

### Why Ava Security?

![icons web-02](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Cyber%20visual%20assets/Reveal/Icons/icons%20web-02.png)

### Proactive security

Real-time identification of abnormal behaviour like people entering at night, vandalism, or fire detection

![notification_active](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Campaign%20pages/Video/Retail%20Nordics%20Q1%202021/icons/notification_active.svg)

### Push notifications

Notifications direct to guards, volunteers and/or authorities

![icons web-27](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Cyber%20visual%20assets/Reveal/New%20Dec%202020/icons%20web-27.jpg)

### People counting

Visitor management, social distancing, and analytics

![icons web-31](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Cyber%20visual%20assets/Reveal/New%20Dec%202020/icons%20web-31.jpg)

### Scalable aggregation

Both video streams and analytics can be managed or aggregated on local, regional or global level if needed

![icons web-11](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Cyber%20visual%20assets/Reveal/Icons/icons%20web-11.png)

### Protecting privacy

Privacy masking of certain areas and facial blur on export ensures compliance with local regulations

![icons web-08](https://os.avasecurity.com/hubfs/Cyber%20visual%20assets/Reveal/Icons/icons%20web-08.png)

### Monitor impact

Intuitive heatmaps showing visitors and impact to sensitive areas over time

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