Anyone who worked with large scale computer networks in the 80′s and even early 90′s probably observed some changes that are perhaps similar to what’s happening today with Network Video. Back then it was data communications (net-heads) and telecommunications (bell-heads) which were converging. In the late 90′s and early 00′ VoIP further converged telecom and [...]
Too cool, check out David Spark’s Security Dreamer Unconference coverage of ASIS. Great coverage for those of us who couldn’t make it!
ONVIF, PSIA , SIA. What are they? Fringe terrorist groups? l337 techno jargon? No, they are standards organizations working on Network Video. Standards can be very valuable to end customers and users of video products. Value will come to customers by enabling increased competition (lower initial purchase cost) and ease of deployments (lower install cost) [...]
Image by julie varnau via Flickr You may have heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) just came online yesterday. There are a bunch of nonsensical fears that the LHC could create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. This reminded me of a great, stay up all night and read it book called [...]
We’ve often wrote about how sharing video and data can be a powerful tool, especially when that information can be trusted and is easy to get at. Another instance of using information sharing over the Internet is a work in progress in the IETF. Authored by some folks at Verisign and Entrust, the IETF Internet [...]
John Honovich rated managed video as one of the top 3 emerging technologies in Video Surveillance for 2008. We here at Envysion are flattered to be mentioned as the segment leader! I think John has it right that it’s going to take several years before managed video is as big as the general IP video [...]
I frequently talk about using data to enhance the usefulness of video, but what about a video composed entirely of data? Radiohead’s House of Cards video is just that, a video created completely from data. Radiohead used similar technology that Google uses in Google Earth to capture 3-D models of buildings. Would 3D video capture [...]
Image via Wikipedia Paradoxically, one of the necessary ways to fight identify theft is to share information about yourself. This is necessary because you can’t prevent someone from pretending to be you unless the person you are communicating with has some information about you. Using one’s intrinsic physical and behavioral traits to prove your identity [...]
There are more ways than ever to communicate using video. Of course, there is video conferencing, either via a special phone device like a Polycom or software on your computer like Skype. But whole new segments of video communication have emerged in the last 3-5 years that most of us probably never thought would happen. [...]
What does open architecture mean? Who cares what it means? An interesting discussion regarding single vendor solutions or “packages” over at ipMarketVideo and Matt Marshall’s SecurityCaffeine made me think about this a bit. The single biggest reason I can see a customer wanting an open architecture is because they don’t want to be locked into [...]