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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 online. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/
This [...]
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 iron” [...]
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 of [...]
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 [...]
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If you have a network (and who doesn’t these days?) IP cameras sure are a lot easier to access than analog cameras. But this ease of access also makes it easier for un-authorized users to access IP cameras . Imagine if someone in the back alley could stream video of your back office [...]
The best technical standards are ones that are actually used. And which standards are more likely to be used? How about standards that do the following:
- Proven to work because code exists that actually implements the stands and actually works
- Consists of a collection of tools of which only a few are “must [...]
When dealing with video surveillance from across the globe, figuring out what time it is can be a complicated thing, or at least hurt your brain a little bit. Can’t we just run everything in metric time? Oh, on second thought, I’m not sure that’s any easier.
At Envysion, when you search for video and events, [...]
