The fact that VideoIQ’s iCVR includes a complete DVR in the camera continues to generate lots of great feedback. Integrators tell us that they love the way it solves problems, including bandwidth and storage, along with improved reliability and lower cost.
When we first introduced the iCVR, we called this feature “storage in the camera.”
Then we heard customers telling us that they saw other cameras with storage built-in. We heard about one that had 64 GB of storage – almost as much as ours. That was a big surprise to me, since I had looked hard to see if there was anything like our iCVR, but couldn’t find a single camera like it.
When I tracked down the camera with 64 Gb, it turned out to be 64 MB not GB, which is good enough to store a few video clips at best. Most engineers would not even call that storage, we’d call it buffer memory.
However, there are of course more cameras starting to show up with SD cards for providing storage in the camera. They don’t provide anywhere near as much storage as our iCVR, but they do store video. That’s when we started calling what we have a “DVR in the Camera”, hopefully to make it clear that what this means is something far more valuable than just a few hours of storage.
In other words, you can eliminate the need for an external DVR or an NVR with our iCVR, because the DVR is already built in. That’s what we meant by DVR in the camera.
Naturally, any good idea is something that others want to start claiming as well. That’s a sure sign of success.
As you can see, Mobotix is now using the term. They make it pretty clear that they’ve got a DVR in their camera. It’s not just storage, it is a DVR. But what do they mean? They ship their camera with a 4 GB card, which they claim is good for 4 hours of video. Of course, you can replace that with a 16 GB card, which would give you 16 hours of storage.
That’s not what we would call a DVR in the camera.
What we mean is I think what most people would expect: You have enough storage for 30 days of continuous recorded video or more. That’s what you need if you want to replace a DVR.
The only time you could eliminate the DVR with 16 hours worth of video recording is if you only recorded occassional event video clips, such as video triggered by an external sensor, or triggered by motion detection (provided it wasn’t outdoors – motion detection outdoors will be going off so often that 16 hours of recording won’t last long.) But if you only have a few video alarm events a day, and they each only lasted 10 minutes or less, then you could stretch that 16 GB for a month. Unfortunately, this isn’t typical.
Most projects require continuous recording. Why? For two big reasons: First, to make sure you don’t miss what is most important. Second, because it is often just as important to prove what happened as what didn’t happen. For example, someone claims their car was damaged in your parking lot at 2 pm on June 3. If your event video didn’t capture it, that doesn’t prove it didn’t happen, does it?
This means that none of these cameras that include a flash memory card for storage can replace a DVR, so they really aren’t a DVR in the camera. Don’t be fooled by the words.
Another thing to keep in mind with these cameras that allow flash cards: Some of them require you to physically go to the camera to access the video stored on the cards. It is great to have storage in the camera when the network needs to be taken down for maintenance or upgrades. But who is going to go around to all their cameras to collect cards to see what happened while the network was down?
Some of the better systems allow you to log on and see the video through your network, but even this is not ideal. You really want to have the video that gets captured in your camera in your DVR, just like any other video captured.
So, in this world of storage in the camera, there is a wide range of differences. They aren’t even close to all being the same. DVR storage in the camera is by far the best, because then you don’t need an external DVR, and this saves most of the bandwidth consumed by IP cameras. It also makes the system much simpler, and saves cost.
The latest chapter in this unfolding story was the recent announcment by Dedicated Micros.
http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blogs/?p=2059
DM calls their “revolutionary” product the ICR. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? ICR stands for Integrated Camera Recorder. That’s pretty close to our iCVR, which means Intelligent Camera with Video Recorder.
But ICR doesn’t mean what you might think. Yes, it does include some storage in the camera (they claim 24 hours of recording), just like many other cameras with a flash card, but what ICR stands for is an external storage device that is built into their proprietary network switch. They have “integrated” the video recorder into the switch. There’s a full hard drive in the switch, so you can get 7 days of storage there, they claim. But apparently to get 30 days of storage, you still need a central server. This, of course, isn’t in the camera. It is just integrated to work with the camera over a point-to-point network connection.
What is great to see in all the marketing materials and promotion that Dedicated Micros has gone through is the way they are promoting how important it is to solve the bandwidth issues with IP cameras, and the many weaknesses of traditional IP cameras. Check out these links:
http://www.info4security.com/story.asp?sectioncode=9&storycode=4122273&c=2
I love Michael Newton’s forthright bashing of traditional IP cameras. I agree with a lot of what he says. So, I’m glad to see him educating the market on the problems with existing IP cameras and that there is a better approach.
What is still missing from their revolutionary new product, however, is intelligence in the camera. Video analytics provide just as many benefits as putting the DVR in the camera. It significantly reduces the amount of video you need to store, and it allows you to capture high quality video whenver anything important happens, while recording everything at the usual lower DVR rates.
And of course the DM solution is still missing a real DVR in the camera, which means you don’t need any external recorders.
What I liked best in the DM presentation was that they called their ICR “revolutionary” and said there was “nothing like this in the market”. This was clearly a big announcement for them.
It is always nice to be copied. It is of course a true sign of appreciation and success. I expect to see many more going down this same path, because the benefits are significant.
But it is even better when the revolutionary products that come out still don’t even have half of what our iCVR has. That must make the iCVR “uber revolutionary”…
Right?
But I think the most important point here is that when new breakthroughs come along, it is natural to see others trying to use the same terms and trying to accomplish the same results, but don’t be confused by the words used. Dig deeper to understand what they mean.
Storage in the camera and a true DVR in the camera aren’t even close to the same.
If you want to read a lively discussion on storage in the camera, check out this from John Honovich’s site:
http://ipvideomarket.info/report/should_you_use_surveillance_cameras_with_built_in_storage
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 1:18 pm
There is nothing worse than reading tech blogs by someone who has no understanding of the technology they are writing about.
In regards to your reference to MOBOTIX.., you’ve completely missed the point about why they refer to the camera as a DVR – its NOT because it has 4GB of SD storage. It is because all the DVR functionality is built into the camera – video recording software, video manager, storage management, event and alarm management, thus you can record direct to any type of digital storage media completely removing the need for a PC with VMS installed (NVR)
Firstly, recording to SD flash is only one of many options, and not suitable for some applications. You can also record directly to a USB or Ethernet hard disk, or RAID NAS/SAN/iSCSI all without the need for a local DVR/NVR and Video Management Software (VMS).
If flash recording does not provide enough storage capacity you can record to an external Ethernet 2TB hard disk, that would provide at least 60 days storage and cost under $300!! If you want more redundancy then use NAS with RAID with any amount of storage you require.
Secondly – the decentralized platform means the camera has full recording and storage management built-in, thus you can remotely access the video which has been recorded to flash or HDD and perform time/date/event related storage, without the need for a local NVR/DVR.
I think you need to actually evaluate a MOBOTIX camera before you making any further statements – to save embarrassing yourself any further!
July 10, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Steve,
Thanks for the reply. I always like to get feedback, even if it is critical. But I think we are each talking about two different things here.
Here’s what I hear you saying: The reason that Mobotix calls what they have an “internal DVR” is because it can store video directly to an external storage device, such as a NAS/SAN/iSCSI etc, without added NVR software.
I do agree that is a big step forward and a big plus for Mobotix, since you don’t need an external NVR server to manage the recording. But the recording is still external. This isn’t about storage in the camera, which is what my post was about.
For example, Bosch also has some cameras that can stream video directly to an iSCSI storage array. They don’t call this an internal DVR, and I wouldn’t either, because all of the recording is done externally.
What I hear you pointing out is that the formatting of the video into a file format is done in the camera, rather than just streaming the video. Yes, this is different from most cameras, and it does save you from needing a server to run NVR software on. But would you really call this an “internal DVR”?
As I said in my post, I don’t think most people would, because to most people a DVR is where the recording is done.
This doesn’t take away from the benefits of the Mobotix camera.
See what I mean?
The biggest problem I see today is confusion over new technologies. The same terms are often used by more than one company to mean completely different things. That confuses people, who already have difficulty keeping up with all the technology changes.
The point of my blog post was that what vendors are now calling storage in the camera, due to a flash card, is really buffer memory, or event clip memory. One day flash cards will be big enough that you won’t need any external storage or DVR. That’s the time to call it a DVR.
I think Mobotix makes great products, by the way, and I have a lot of respect for them. Some very talented engineers. But I wouldn’t call what they have an “internal DVR” because most people would think that means all the recording you need is in the camera. My suggestion is that they say NVR software is included, or something like that.
Does that make sense?
If you think I’m still missing your point, let me know.
I do appreciate the feedback, and thanks for bringing up the benefits of video cameras that can export file format video rather than just streaming video. Our iCVR does that as well.
Thanks.
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 2:48 pm
We’re not talking about two difference things. You wrote (quote) “They (MOBOTIX) ship their camera with a 4 GB card, which they claim is good for 4 hours of video. Of course, you can replace that with a 16 GB card, which would give you 16 hours of storage. That’s not what we would call a DVR in the camera.”
So your opinion of what “DVR in the camera” is, according to your opinion is based on how much storage capacity the camera has? That’s like saying a DVR with 32 cameras connected and only one internal 80GB HDD is not a DVR because it doesn’t have enough storage. It’s still a DVR it just needs more storage added. Your definition in no way defines in-camera-DVR. Besides you can connect a 64GB USB flash or small 250GB HDD at MOBOTIX camera directly or via short cable. The MOBOTIX system is thus used in thousands of mobile and rapid deployment system because of this.
Bosch is a bad comparison and example – they do not have in-camera-DVR functionality. Because of this they are very limited as to what the cameras can directly record to. For example, if the Bosch camera was to record direct to flash, or HDD you could not perform time/date/event search locally or remotely without passing the video through an NVR.
Again, MOBOTIX do not claim in-camera-DVR because of the storage capacity, it is because the DVR functionality (video management, recording management, alarm handling) is built-in.
Note: if a customer buys a MOBOTIX camera with the plan to completely decentralize the video storage inside the camera, they can upgrade the SD storage capacity as cards are released with higher capacities. We will see 64GB microSD cards released within the next 18mths – completely future proofing your system.
By the way – the MOBOTIX platform has been able to do this since 2001…the small form factor storage cards were not available at the time.
July 10, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Steve,
Yes, my definition of a DVR in the camera is all about how much storage it has. This doesn’t mean how many GBs. It means how long continuous video can be recorded.
The industry standard expectation is typically 30 days of storage, these days. That’s what people need from a DVR.
So, if you can record a month’s worth of continuous video, then that seems like a good way of defining it as a DVR in the camera.
You are right that some flash cards are coming out with as many GBs of storage as some of the earliest DVRs used to have. But back then, it was all time-lapse video recording, one frame per second, and no one considers that adequate today. So, the definition of what a DVR has changed, and today it means typically 5 fps or faster for 30 days of recording.
Yes, I’ve been watching the growth of flash storage cards as well. But if you are using Mobotix’s MxPEG compression, my estimates suggest that you would need almost 900 GB to record 30 days worth, even at only 1.3 megapixel at 5 frames per second. Correct me if you think my estimate is off.
Even if my estimate is off by a lot, they are a long way from offering what I would call a DVR in the camera through a single flash card.
Yes, Mobotix is doing more than just streaming video over an iSCSI format, which is what Bosch does. That’s a good point. Mobotix does a complete conversion of the video into a file format, which allows you to transfer that data and manage it like traditional files. Our iCVR does the same thing. I agree that is significantly better. It’s a very good point.
I can see what you are getting at here. I agree that what Mobotix and VideoIQ do, in terms of converting video into full files, is worth special attention and it should be given a name to make it clear that it is different and has many advantages. But what should we call this?
I wouldn’t call it a DVR, because I think the term DVR is all about the storage, for most people.
But I agree with you that it should be called something special, to make it clear that it is different.
What should we call it? Smart File Storage?
Another benefit is that files are transmitted using TCP protocols, which guarantee loss-less communication, while video streaming is often done using UDP, which doesn’t correct glitches in the video data. So, file Smart File Storage can give you higher quality video as well.
Here’s a question I have: Has Mobotix always called this an “internal DVR”? I haven’t seen them use that term until recently. As you say, they’ve been doing Smart File Storage for a long time, but I never noticed them calling it a DVR before.
Thanks, and I’ve enjoyed this discussion. The whole benefit you are talking about is worthy of a blog post on its own.
Thanks.
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 4:51 pm
You missed my point about MOBOTIX being able “to record direct to storage and fully manage with an NVR in 2001″. The point is that their decentralized platform and technology has been around for over 8 years. MOBOTIX were the first to put recording/storage management in the camera.
To your question “Has Mobotix always called this an “internal DVR”?”: I can’t speak for them, but at their installer training which I attended, they explained that like a regular PC-based DVR, the MOBOTIX internal DVR is referred to as such because of its functionality, not storage capacity.
You’re saying you wouldn’t say Mobotix has in-camera-DVR based on the assumption that 30-days continuous storage is an ‘industry standard’ and as ‘what people need from a DVR’. Don’t agree in fact, from our experience this is the exception not the rule!
I would say that 9 out of 10 of our installations are setup to combine multiple triggers for accuracy (e.g. input and motion detection) using the Mobotix event logic function. We usually record at 3-megapixel @ 5fps which is more than enough for 90% of our installations – even for larger projects.
Because most of our clients will know if something has been stolen, or event has occurred within 3-5 days, we typically setup the recordings for 7-10 days…for which 4GB is usually enough. Sometimes we have had to upgrade the card to 16GB if we to increase this to 14 days. Some of the cameras just record to Ethernet HDD. For critical sites we use RAID NAS. We have one at the moment recording at 12fs @ 3-megapixel to a 1TB HDD for a special rapid deployment application.
But either way, I see MOBOTIX as being the most flexible for us, because flash devices are getting bigger and bigger because there is such a huge market demand for them, the internal storage will continue to grow by simple removing the old card and inserting the new! EASY! When the new 32GB microSD are released in early 2010 we will be upgrading some of our sites. 64GB will also be released late 2010. 128GB and 256GB will closely follow. That means when customers buy Mobotix from me, they will have it for the next twenty years. You couldn’t ask for more than that!
July 10, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Steve,
You seem to feel that I’m missing your points, but I thought I followed what you were saying.
Yes, Mobotix has been doing this special file management of video in the camera for a long time. I hadn’t noticed them using the “internal DVR” message before, and I’d be interested to hear whether this was new or not. But I do follow why your explanation on why they used the DVR term and what it meant to them.
I agree that if you were doing only event recording of video, then a big flash card is enough and you don’t need an external DVR. That’s exactly what I said in my original blog post. I tried to make that clear.
If 9 out of 10 of your jobs work for this, then it sounds like a perfect solution. As I said, however, this is not what most surveillance applications require.
We have some customers buying our models without the hard drive, and using only the built in solid state memory, for exactly as you describe. Plus, we’ve got the benefits of full video anlaytics to do the detection. So, in some cases that’s exactly the right solution. But I would say 90% of the jobs we see want continuous video recording.
I’m not sure what the industry average is, but my guess is that over 80% of surveillance jobs want continuous recording. I’d be interested in hearing other estimates.
I think a question you raise, and which I’ve been wondering about, is whether more applications could use just video analytics for detection, or other inputs to trigger the recording. It could then save massive amounts of storage costs, and it makes flash card storage far more interesting.
I do think over time it is going to go the way you are going. Especially when more people learn to trust video analytics not to miss anything important. However, I know there are still a lot of applications where people need continuous video to have a record on what didn’t happen as well as what did happen, especially to overcome lawsuits.
I think I’m following your points. And I think we are closer to how we see this than it might sound. Our biggest difference seems to lie on what people think of when they use the term DVR?
Does the average person think of the file formatting or the storage? I would say without a doubt that it is the storage.
The rest of it we seem to agree on, and there is nothing wrong with healthy disagreement, because it helps to see things from different perspectives.
Thanks. Good discussion.
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 5:54 pm
30-days recording industry standard? I agree to disagree.
If you are strictly speaking in terms of in-camera storage capacity, the only limitation with MOBOTIX is the availability of SD cards on the market – each generation now is doubling in size, at a dramatic pace now.
For example, this 2TB SD is due for announcement at the CES 2009 tech show,
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/techno-techno-techno/2009/01/ces-2009-2-terabyte-capacity-s.html
This right now would be compatible with the MOBTIX M12 and M22 cameras!
So do you now see the power of the MOBOTIX decentralized platform?
So dont really see the problem…
July 10, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Steve,
I agree that 30 days is not needed in all cases. I’m talking about the most commonly expected requirement. There are certainly plenty of cases were less or even a lot more is needed. But I would guess that well over 50% of the time we hear 30 days as what is needed, and probably a lot higher.
Yes, I saw this announcment for the 2TB SD card as well. I thought, WOW! But then I did some research and found that it was not the way it looked.
What was announced at CES was the new SDHD cards, which is the same size as the old SD, but is now designed for much larger memory sizes and faster speeds. But the largest SDHD card so far is 32 GB. So, the numbers you gave before were right: 64 GB coming out early next year and 128 GB around the end of 2010.
Eventually there will be a 2 TB SDHD card, which is awesome, but that appears to be years away.
You asked, “So do you now see the power of the Mobotix decentralized platform?”
Isn’t that the whole point of what I was writing about: The power of storage in the camera? Yes, that is what is so exciting.
But we have a full DVR in our iCVR today, using a hard drive. It is powerful. Later it will all move to solid state memory in the camera. But, especially for megapixel cameras, that’s many years away.
Why wait?
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 6:36 pm
what is that saying … 90% of all stats are incorrect LOL. I love the old 50% here and 80% there! Anyhow….
When you buy a MOBOTIX camera, you will always be able to upgrade the memory. This means future proof.
Question? What HDD do you use in your camera…what brands/models? Can you list them for the viewers to discuss further?
July 10, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Steve,
I like your idea of always being able to upgrade the memory.
Our hard drives can be replaced in the field as well. Integrators like knowing that, but we haven’t seen anyone do it yet. Probably because we provide more storage space than they usually need.
We are currently using Hitachi drives, but there are a number of good quality manufacturers of 2.5″ drives, like you find in rugged laptops. We load some of our code onto the drives, but otherwise they are standard drives. We put special attention on the number of on/off cycles spec, the low noise spec, the power consumption, and of course reliability.
Doug.
Doug.
July 10, 2009 at 7:29 pm
which Hitachi drives?
July 10, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I don’t have the part numbers.
July 10, 2009 at 7:54 pm
that’s ok, give us the models here is the Hitachi HDD url http://www.hitachigst.com
July 10, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I believe we are currently using the Travelstar 5K series.
Why do you ask?
July 11, 2009 at 3:06 pm
It’s a worry that you are using the Travelstar series – these are in the desktop (notebook) class, not design for constant writing applications and thus not robust. I would never specify these for a surveillance application. For constant writing, with VideoIQ seems to feel is an industry standard and a requirement, you should be using Enterprise-class HDDs, Hitachi do offer these also in their range.
July 11, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Why do you think we are constantly writing to the hard drive?
It sounds as if you aren’t familiar with our product or how it works.
We’ve solved the hard drive failure problem by using 1 GB of solid state memory as a buffer. So, the hard drive is asleep about 96 percent of the time. Every 4-5 hours the hard drive wakes up and stores the video from the buffer. Then the hard drive goes back to sleep.
This extends the life expectancy of the hard drive by a factor of ten.
The notebook class hard drives, by the way, are more ruggedized that desktop drives. They are also quieter and use less power. 2.5″ drives are now regularly being used in server farms, to help reduce current and increase storage density. Hitachi was also one of the first to solve the on/off cycle problem with the 2.5″ drive, by parking the head when it is off. That’s because laptops need to put up with much more abuse than desktop drives, so they are built better to handle that.
It’s actually perfect for our application.
Doug.
July 11, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Before I respond, to you statement “Every 4-5 hours the hard drive wakes up and stores the video from the buffer”….question – what is the maximum resolution of your camera?
July 12, 2009 at 4:22 pm
It’s interesting and correct me if I am wrong, but reading your iCVR datasheet… http://www.videoiq.com/uploads/datasheets/VideoIQ_iCVR_CameraEncoder5-9-09.pdf ..It appears that your iCVR camera is only capable of recording in D1 (704 X 480 pixels) resolution -so it appears your iCVR cameras cannot stream or record in megapixel resolution.
Therefore your figures are somewhat misleading! Firstly I am fully aware of of your camera’s ‘buffering’ to 1GB and then archiving to HDD. BUT you said (quote) “… using Mobotix’s MxPEG compression, my estimates suggest that you would need almost 900 GB to record 30 days worth, even at only 1.3 megapixel at 5 frames per second.”
But you are not comparing ‘apples with apples’. How can you even talk about megapixel when your own iCVR camera is not even capable of delivering megapixel. To make it a fair comparison, as the iCVR cannot record in 1.3 megapixel, but only D1 – if the MOBOTIX camera was recording at D1 resolution @ 6fps, triggering and recording 200 events, you would get 30 days recording on 16GB microSD card.
July 12, 2009 at 4:24 pm
…That’s 200 events PER DAY by the way!
July 13, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Steve,
As you now see, yes, our camera is currently a standard resolution camera, and our encoders work with standard resolution analog cameras.
I don’t know how you could say that what I wrote was misleading. I thought it was fairly clear when I said “… using Mobotix’s MxPEG compression” that I was talking about Mobotix cameras, not our own cameras. After all, MxPEG compression is proprietary to Mobotix. No other company uses it. We use H.264 compression. My point was simply to show that by my estimate you would need about 900 GB to have 30 days of continuous storage for the Mobotix camera, because that is what it would take to have full DVR functionality in their camera. I can see now, looking back, that you said 2 TB will give over 60 days of continuous storage, which means that 1 TB would cover 30 days, so this is exactly in line with my point. There was nothing misleading here.
I agree with you that comparing the Mobotix camera with our iCVR is like comparing apples with oranges. Mobotix has a megapixel camera. Our iCVR is a camera with video analytics and a full DVR built-in. They are indeed two different animals.
I’ve never tried to compare the two products or to pit the two against each other. In fact, this is exactly why in my first response to you I said that we were talking about two different things. But you told me that I was wrong.
As I’ve been saying from the beginning, my point has been about what people mean by “storage in the camera” or “DVR in the camera”. The terms are being confused, but they should mean two very different things: Using a flash memory card in the camera works if you only need to capture event type recording, but if you need continuous recording, then you still need external storage. However, if you have a complete DVR in the camera, then you don’t need external storage.
I’m hoping you can now see what I’ve been talking about.
Unfortunately, it still seems as if you are missing what this means. You wrote:
“To make it a fair comparison, as the iCVR cannot record in 1.3 megapixel, but only D1 – if the MOBOTIX camera was recording at D1 resolution @ 6fps, triggering and recording 200 events, you would get 30 days recording on 16GB microSD card.”
But this isn’t a fair comparison, as I’ve said from the beginning, because the Mobotix camera is still limited to event recording on the SD card, while our iCVR can record continuously for more than 30 days with the built-in hard drive. That’s the whole point. Not just event recording, but full continuous video recording.
Here’s a fair comparison, using your example. If the Mobotix camera was only D1 resolution, and you wanted it to be able to continuously record for 30 days at 5 frames per second, my estimates are that you would need about 230 GB worth of storage. It will be many years before you can find an SD flash memory card that large. Obviously, using H.264 compression gives us a big advantage for storage in the camera.
But the whole point of my post was not to compare the Mobotix camera with our iCVR, since they are indeed two different animals, each appropriate for different applications. My point was simply to show what it really means to have enough storage in the camera that you don’t need external storage, and that this is what we mean when we say we have a DVR in our camera.
Thanks.
Doug.
July 13, 2009 at 10:26 pm
hmmm I think your 3-day continuous recording in D1 is not a very compelling story…sorry. Well not for us anyway. D1 resolution in h.264 is not really a differentiator. Anyway – good luck – i think u r going to need it!
July 13, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Steve,
I appreciate the note of good luck, but fortunately we have got a rapidly growing customer base who love our products.
I’m not surprised that you haven’t found it compelling, since we spent all of our time just discussing what it means to have the DVR built into the camera, and we never got to why it is so valuable.
Here are a few examples of why having analytics and a DVR in the camera are hot:
1. It makes the perfect solution for Remote Guarding, where you can provide better protection than on-site guards at 1/4th the cost. This is why over a dozen monitoring companies have adopted the iCVR. Saving significant money while providing significantly better protection than guards is generating a lot of interest.
2. Wireless networks are increasingly being used for city wide surveillance systems, or outdoor perimeters. The iCVR is a perfect fit, since it solves the bandwidth problem. You can get continuous recording and pro-active detection of potential security breaches, and put as many cameras on a wireless network as you want.
3. We increasingly see schools who want to add IP video systems, but don’t want to add another network or expand their network to deal with the bandwidth. Since our storage is completely in the camera, they can add our iCVRs to their network without impacting the bandwidth. At the same time, they can use the analytics for detection, both outside and inside their buildings.
4. If you have a lot of sites that only need one or two cameras, there is no simpler solution, or less expensive IP cameras, than our iCVR. You just connect the cameras to the network with PoE and you’re up and running.
These are just a few examples. There are lots more.
Thanks.
Doug.