Six

World Health Organization (WHO) had escalated the swine influenza pandemic alert to the highest phase, phase number 6, made H1N1 a first ever 21st century official flu pandemic.

Putting human cost aside for a moment, let us explore how this development will affect our CCTV industry.

H1N1 outbreak is definitely a boon to the private health care and medical industry, a bane to tourism and traveling industry.

If people try not to travel, they will turn to technology to substitute the physical traveling like making phone call, emailing, messaging, tele-conferencing, and CCTV Internet distance monitoring.

This powerful and yet simple surveillance solution will allow its authorized user to distant monitor multiple sites, or business outlets from the comfort of their office or house. A user can simultaneously monitor all sites with a Internet connected computer or a mobile phone. This CCTV solution give you the power of omnipresence, and to time travel to the past when you remotely playback the recorded footage.

CCTV remote monitoring is indeed a very powerful tool, lets hope this flu outbreak will trigger a pan-global CCTV deployment.

Back in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, I still don't see anyone wearing mask. Seriously even when I see someone on the street wearing a mask, I dunno if it was for the flu or the haze. In South East Asia, we are now experiencing a seasonal phenomenon call haze or smog during the midyear dry season. This haze is 'believe' to be caused by farmers in Indonesia who set illegal bush fires to clear land for planting, causing smoke to drift across the Malacca Strait into the neighboring countries. Some says those culprits in Indonesia are actually Malaysians.



Whatever it is, care to wear this elaborated mask?