I am such a geek. To prove it to our sales folks, I used the following “tripartite motto” for the development of Envysion’s products: Easy, Enamor, Stun. Okay, so I am not a great wordsmith. At least it kept our sales folks interested, or at least laughing, for a few minutes. While the terms are [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Ever heard of the airport security program called “CLEAR“? Clear’s customers give out personal identifying information to Clear to help expedite the security check process at airports. CBS5 news in SanFrancisco reported a laptop containing some information of 33,000 applicants to the CLEAR program was likely stolen for more [...]
Image via Wikipedia How about recording and archiving of town meetings? A town planning committee in Tremont, Maine installed a single camera video surveillance system with audio for just this purpose. The purpose of the one camera system is to keep accurate records of their planning meetings according to the article. Publishing such meetings on [...]
There seems to be confusion over what to call network video components. There are a number industry terms and lots of jargon in this area. It’s a relatively new field and is to be expected. As the market figures out which technologies get used where, names will come and go. But there are a few [...]
How important is having an easy to use application? If the the amount of dollars going into development of ever easier to use interfaces is any indication, an easy to use application must be VERY important. Check out Sentinel AVE’s Video Earth application. It looks like Google maps overlaid with videos that are stitched together [...]
Matt’s analogy that video in the business video can be used just like sports performance analysis is right on. Reviews are so much more effective when one knows what’s being measured, how it’s being measured and what the expectations are. Afterall, it’s hard to succeed unless one knows the rules. One of the more important [...]
Image by JZjr via Flickr A major advantage of MVaaS being a Internet hosted service is that it naturally lends itself to sharing and collaboration of your private video, keeping it private if you want it and allowing it to be shared as you wish. Why would you want to do that? For one, granting [...]
Image via Wikipedia The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter used the phrase “creative destruction,” to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways. In his view, this was part of a cycle of economies going through growth and recession. We’re not technically in a recession [...]
Image via Wikipedia Distributed video storage solution = $900/month. Centralized storage solution (180T storage using NAS storage solution offsite at a data center)= over $228,000 per month. ‘Nuff said? I was inspired to write this from John Honovich’s blog post entitled, “Why Centralized NVR Recording Does Not Work”. I wanted to take it a step [...]
At the intersection of video, data, time and place lies all the value to be gleaned from video. If you’ve got data which includes a timestamp and a location, wouldn’t it be great if you could just paste a link to the video? What if some software could automatically do it for you? If we [...]