Video surveillance is the fastest growing segment of the security industry. With the threat of terrorism, federal, state and local governments are devoting greater resources to video surveillance.
Corporations face the same issues as governments, such as industrial espionage, sabotage or theft. For loss prevention, retail businesses invest in storewide security cameras. Governments and corporations find video surveillance is a vital segment of their security solutions.
Green Data Systems provides integrated video surveillance; we offer a one-vendor solution for any enterprise’s security efforts. The advantages of turning to a single provider for video surveillance requirements is that you have a single vendor supporting all of the solution’s components rather than having to contact a myriad of providers to enable the full solution. In addition, as a single provider, we provide an integrated design for simpler administration and lower cost of ownership.
Video Surveillance for Government Video surveillance is a necessary component of government security solutions. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, invests heavily in infrastructure surveillance to assist in averting terrorist attacks. This requires video surveillance deployments at crucial infrastructure sites, such as:
•Airports
•Seaports
•Dams
•Nuclear facilities
Video Surveillance for Retail
There is a direct correlation between economic downturns and increased retail theft. The downturn has retailers concerned about increased shoplifting and robberies. Video surveillance cameras provide information on traffic patterns in stores. In addition, video surveillance helps retailers gauge customer interest in specific displays, thereby resulting in increased sales.
Video Surveillance for Schools
Schools are concerned about making their facilities safe for their students and staff. Video surveillance with a physical security presence helps provide that security. In addition, school districts are concerned about liability claims. Transportation companies also use video surveillance to provide evidence to dispute liability claims.
Trends in Video Surveillance
Convergence of Physical Security and Video Surveillance
Traditional physical security individuals, known as “the guns and badges people,” have little connection to IT departments. However, the current trend shows a convergence of physical security staff and IP video surveillance.
Video Surveillance Evolution
The evolution of video surveillance networks is moving from a pure analog to a hybrid analog with a gradual increase in the number of pure IP deployments. There is increased adoption of IP camera technology and the video surveillance industry moving away from analog technology. Consolidation of the IT network infrastructure will happen by replacing analog with IP encoders taking full advantage of the IT network.
This will move the network data recorder capability to the server, enabling increased bandwidth, throughput, scalability and performance. This increases a company’s ability to use their existing networks. This will bring the storage capability from the edge to the core of the network, allowing quicker and easier access to stored archived data.
Video Surveillance Growth
The boom in IP storage is happening despite improved analog compression schemes. And the growing number of megapixel and high definition cameras is forcing customers to increase drastically their storage capacity and overall storage capabilities.
The growth in managed services continues with video surveillance and physical security information management (PSIM) solution providers making real inroads. ABI Research believes that growth in the enterprise market will be followed by telecommunications and professional services companies broadening their managed service offerings.
To deal with the increasing amount of real time video content, more powerful processors, on servers and storage are required.
Trends in Video Surveillance
Convergence of Physical Security and Video Surveillance
Traditional physical security individuals, known as “the guns and badges people,” have little connection to IT departments. However, the current trend shows a convergence of physical security staff and IP video surveillance.
Video Surveillance Evolution
The evolution of video surveillance networks is moving from a pure analog to a hybrid analog with a gradual increase in the number of pure IP deployments. There is increased adoption of IP camera technology and the video surveillance industry moving away from analog technology. Consolidation of the IT network infrastructure will happen by replacing analog with IP encoders taking full advantage of the IT network.
This will move the network data recorder capability to the server, enabling increased bandwidth, throughput, scalability and performance. This increases a company’s ability to use their existing networks. This will bring the storage capability from the edge to the core of the network, allowing quicker and easier access to stored archived data.
Video Surveillance Growth
The boom in IP storage is happening despite improved analog compression schemes. And the growing number of megapixel and high definition cameras is forcing customers to increase drastically their storage capacity and overall storage capabilities.
The growth in managed services continues with video surveillance and physical security information management (PSIM) solution providers making real inroads. ABI Research believes that growth in the enterprise market will be followed by telecommunications and professional services companies broadening their managed service offerings.
To deal with the increasing amount of real time video content, more powerful processors, on servers and storage are required.
Network infrastructure that can carry a potentially large number of real time video streams without packet drop and that can power the surveillance cameras over the wire
•X Storage system that supports back-end archival or tape management architectures
•X Blade server technology that can scale and support video management software
•X Video management software
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