How to add flexibility while preserving your video security investment
Leverage Your Existing Investment in Network Technologies – Including Wireless
Network-based video systems with IP cameras allows you to connect cameras directly to your company’s data network and record video to a workstation anywhere on the network – even at different locations or over wireless data networks. This can eliminate long cable runs and better utilize network resources like Network Attached Storage devices. Adding cameras is simple and fast, and remote access to your system is easy over the Internet. This flexibility can reduce capital expenditures, installation time and overall costs, while simplifying the management of your company’s technology-based systems.
Never Obsolete – Protecting Your Investment
The advanced system architecture of network-based video systems lets you expand and upgrade your system easily. This means that you can add the features you need, when you need them. Whether it means adding more cameras or new features, additional video storage or advanced features, you can build on your investment without having to change out the entire system. Various system components can be upgraded as required, which means that your video system is no longer hardware dependent and prone to become outdated.
Mega-pixel Camera Resolutions
The analog NTSC video format standard for using coax-based connections is capable of providing a maximum “high resolution” 640h x 480v lines of resolution. When translated into a digital format, this equates to 0.3 to 0.4M pixels. While a network based system can easily incorporate these cameras, it is not constrained by this resolution “ceiling.” You can use cameras with 2.0M pixel resolution and greater – this is 5 times the resolution of the best standard security camera. This means that you can more easily identify a person’s facial features and more easily read license plate numbers or currency denominations.
Scalability
Most Digital Video Recorder (DVR) can only record up to 16 video channels, with even the largest DVR systems providing 32 channels of video. Network-based systems can expand one camera at a time and support hundreds of cameras operating as a single system – even if they are at different buildings or locations.
Advanced Applications
Network-based video systems offer features that are simply not possible with a standard DVR. One example is the ability to use a dome camera, which catches all of the action by eliminating camera blind spots and recording a full 360 degrees. Other applications include intelligent “computer vision” and advanced video routing features
