India, May 26 -- India already has millions of CCTV cameras deployed across enterprises, cities, transportation networks, and public infrastructure. Yet incidents continue to occur despite widespread surveillance coverage. According to Venkat Ramana, CEO, NthEye and Value Pitch, the core issue is that traditional surveillance systems were never designed to function as real-time intelligence platforms. They were built primarily as recording systems.

"Traditional surveillance systems are essentially post-mortem tools," Ramana said. "They are designed to record a timeline of events to be reviewed after an incident has already occurred."

He explained that most surveillance infrastructure still depends heavily on human operators manually mon...