Envysion is moving to a new building and I’ve been turning up a new SaaS application for our use there. The application is managed security as a service. We’ve selected brivo as our solution. I’ll be posting a series of articles over the next few days to give you an update of what its like, [...]
John Honovich, on his IPVideoMarket.info blog, posted an interesting article on ease of use or user interface design and how it applies to products typically found in the video management space. I found his article http://ipvideomarket.info/report/easy_to_use_video_management_software a very compelling read and wanted to compare some of his findings to our experience here at Envysion. His [...]
The other day I opened my utility bill and just about hit the floor because my electric bill was so huge. I have to get a handle on how much power I am using, I thought, as I wrote way to large of a check to our local utility. Fast forward a month and I [...]
[Note: this is a guest post by Ori Pessach. Ori is one of the most gifted software developers I have ever had the pleasure to work with and fortunately, also our senior-most developer across our video platform] I was asked to be on a conference call with a customer a few weeks ago. The customer [...]
I am somewhat of a twitter user. I have an account, I tweat once in a blue moon. Personally, I find facebook status updates to be much more compelling than twitter. Dennis Stevenson has an interesting blog entry about how twitter helped him get customer service issue resolved. The facinating thing about his story is [...]
Taking a cue from Brad Feld’s blog about daily data, we’ve come up with our own daily data template. For those of you who didn’t take the bait and click thru the previous link, the idea of daily data is a short email based summary of significant metrics about a service business. It is meant [...]
NPR had a very interesting episode today about A New Way To Patrol The Texas Border The basic idea is that folks who are so inclined can log onto a web site and watch video over the Internet of certain border crossings. If they see suspicious behavior, they can press a button on the page [...]
The Unix Epoch which is the standard of time for unix (linux) systems all over the known universe will have a unique moment in a few days. The measure of time on a linux system is in seconds since the epoch, which was January 1, 1970, UTC. Since the measure is simply the number of [...]
An old-skool RFC for those of you who remember such things…I present to you RFC 968 by Vint Cerf. Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet. The engineers rattled their cards in despair, hoping a bad chip would blow with a [...]
A benefit of Managed-Video-As-A-Service is that it can scale to a large number of locations. One of the reasons MVaaS scales so well is that it borrows architectural elements from telecommunications network management principles. One of these principles is to collect data and monitor network elements. Note the graph above. This is a screenshot from [...]