India, Dec. 24 -- Traffic surveillance systems have grown more powerful over the years, but one problem has remained stubbornly unchanged. The footage keeps piling up. Operators still spend hours watching screens, scrubbing timelines, and filtering out noise to find events that matter.

A new push towards video summarisation for traffic management aims to change that balance by turning raw video into readable, searchable text, delivered in seconds rather than hours.

Milestone Systems has introduced two related offerings built on a specialised vision language model focused on traffic environments. One is a video summarisation tool integrated directly into its XProtect video management software. The other is a vision language model offered...