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 [...]
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 from multiple [...]
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 aspects [...]
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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 access [...]
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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 until [...]
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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 further with a [...]
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 had a [...]
I just read a popular article on where to deploy video analytics at Security Info Watch, Axis: Video Analytics at the Edge.
The article written by Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications does a great job of describing different deployment options for deploying video analytics. While I agree with the bandwidth advantages and improved analytic [...]
Be it video analytics, data analytics, intelligence based on the available data is paramount to making productive use of video. The most effective Managed Video service will “hook into” best of breed intelligence services.
Managed Video Systems should strive to be great at managing video and making it easy to link that video with data. [...]
It’s about time! John Honovich has produced a book on video surveillance. From my scan so far, this appears to be some of the first material I have ever seen which actually is vendor neutral and not slanted towards a love of some particular technology. You don’t have to be an engineer to read it [...]
