Arthur C. CLarke’s third “law” of prediction states: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
However, these days it seems expectations have risen. Sometimes it seems magic is indistingishable from technology. As a technical person, have you ever been asked to “just make it work”?
How about just making a megapixel IP camera without storage sending it’s video over the uplink of a broadband DSL line? At 7Mbps, that DSL seems like it should be able to handle it, right? Well the uplink is only 896kbps and the IP camera is trying to use almost 3 times that amount.
Sure, with a little creativity, one can make that camera “work”. Reduce the quality, the frame rate and well, the resolution. It might not be megapixel anymore, but it’ll work. Of course, the low cost solution that preserves the most options is to get some storage local to the camera. Envysion’s system allows you to stream the video at a lower quality for review and then upload the video from the remote location to the Envysion datacenter or to your PC once you’ve found what you’re looking for.
Other solutions like VideoIQ’s camera with built-in storage might be attractive if one cannot use a recording device that is external to the camera.
