Analyze this!

The New Jersey Jewish News describes a 3-year old Israeli technology being imported to at least one US mall, in which security video cameras themselves analyze and can alert guards to unusual behavior:

“We are training the video through the computer system to recognize abnormal behaviors, like somebody going the wrong way in an escalator, or a package that becomes stationary in an area where nothing is stationary. When we set the software to recognize that, a camera lights up. If you go into an area where people are not supposed to be, a camera lights up. If you go into a door that is not usually open, a camera lights up. Even if you have the code for it, we get to see who goes in. A human being watching that camera can dispatch one of his human assets, a security guard or a maintenance person, to find out who is in that room.”

Sounds similar to a technology I recently read is being used in British underground (subway) stations to alert guards to potential suicides. The video can 'tell' through movement patterns if someone is likely to jump onto the track. I wonder if it's the same, Israeli system?

UPDATE: More innovative Israeli technology.