The Future of Video Surveillance IP VIDEO SURVEILLANCE The Future of Video Surveillance
CCTV in the Past VCR’s and the purely Analog Age Inexpensive and Reliable Labor Intensive and Inefficient VERY feature Poor DVR’s and the birth of the digital CCTV world Efficient and Easy to Use Limited to Local Recording and Range of Coaxial Cable Network
I.P. CCTV Breakdown Cameras and Encoders Physical Data Network Storage Management Software
Cameras and Encoders I.P. Camera Encoder N.I.C. Digital Video Camera Assorted Lenses Encoder BNC connection Video Encoder
Data Network Cat.5 or Cat.6 Switches Routers
Storage NVR Servers iSCSI Recording at the Edge PC NVR
Management Software Uses Light vs. Heavy Applications Configuration Viewing Video Light vs. Heavy Applications
MPEG-4 Coding and Compression Efficiency and Quality MPEG-4 vs. MPEG-2 and M-JPEG P-Frames and I-Frames No Standard H.264 P, I, and B Frames
Megapixel Cameras The Good The Bad Unparalleled Image Quality CSI Zooming Capabilities The Bad Huge File Sizes M-JPEG Extreme Bandwidth Usage