Or perhaps, more precisely, sales of tickets to see movies on the big screen are up over 10% according to a report from NPR. In the last 7 years of recession since 1965, movie sales have gone up in 5 of them. Mall Cop out grossed all comedy films of 2008. Fast and Furious 3 [...]
Business data (meta-data) needs to be constantly scanned and reported onto to maximize it’s value. It’s important that there are many ways to scan, slice and dice this data because each business is different and the information sought also frequently changes. Storing video and business intelligence separately allows Envysion to have more flexibility as well [...]
Perhaps expansion of broadband into rural areas will help bring managed services to locations where they were previously not possible due to lack of high speed Internet. Controversy over stimulus for rural broadband as covered by NPR Some data on broadband penetration in rural areas from 2007. Clearwire and Open Range Communications are a couple [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of the government brokered sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan for $2/share and of course $30 Billion of our (taxpayer) money. If you haven’t seen Frontline‘s 1 hour news report on the wall street meltdown, here’s a link to watch it [...]
Envysion is having so much growth that we’ve recently had to expand our database capacity to store the ever higher volume of event data flowing in. (We still store video and the video database at the remote site) Adding database capacity isn’t such a big deal if one just goes out and buys some “big [...]
When I hear talk about the virtues of “Software Only” video systems, I kinda think, huh? Since when is a camera made of software? I think what is really being talked about are the virtues of a multi-vendor solution as opposed to a single vendor solution. Multivendor network video systems are a great direction and [...]
In the telecom engineering world a huge focus area is on having inexpensive, robust devices out at the edge of the network which could be 100% remotely managed using automated processes. All the edge devices (say a router that is at a customer’s location) must have a very consistent and methodical way of being configured [...]
I found this useful for explaining what one actually has to do to become PCI compliant. Here are the 12 general requirements for PCI Compliance in more or less plain English.
The acronym MVaaS is meant to be a play off SaaS, where software is hosted and used via the Web. When we coined the term MVaaS we wanted to convey that the video surveillance system is operated by a managed services provider. A good comparison is a managed telecommunications provider operates corporate networks on behalf [...]
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 [...]