1. AMCOM Digital Archive
Design Review - Week 3

2. Summary of Last Week’s Review
Component 1: Digital archive, with intranet interface, that easily organizes and delivers propulsion test data
Component 2: Improve the process of collecting propulsion test data and delivering it to the digital archive

3. Previous Week’s Activities
Communication with sponsor
Process Improvement
Brainstorm ideas
Solution research
Digital Archive
Architecture definition
Preliminary Schedule

4. Sponsor Communication
Meeting with Dr. Lilley
Clarified the video architecture of the test site
Discussed solutions to improving the video collection process
Communication with George Arkoosh
Windows 2003 server and SQL developer edition are “In the mail”
Received specifications on current equipment

5. Process Improvement Current System Proposed Improvement
Four video streams connected to four DV-decks
Take the four DV-tapes and rip the video off of each one
Proposed Improvement
Eliminate the DV-Tapes (except for backup purposes) and the need to rip video off of four tapes
Use a four input video capture card and a computer to capture the signals straight to a file

6. Video Architecture Cameras NTSC Signals DV DECK DV DECK DV DECK
Encoding Station
Gigabit Ethernet connection to the digital archive.

7. Picolo Tetra-X – (Overview)
Dedicated to high-demand multiple camera applications on the security or industrial market.
Due to four color video digitizers it can acquire four real-time full size 16-bit image sequences in parallel.
Picolo Tetra-X is able to simultaneously digitize four video signals and to send the resulting digital data in real time into the PC memory through the PCI bus
TTL I/O lines are provided for system integration.

8. Picolo Tetra-X 240 fps 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X bus
4 color video digitizers for video streaming & camera switching
Expandable architecture:
3 Video Expansion Brackets for up to 16 camera inputs

9. Streams Software System
System Overview
Provides simultaneous data recording from a variety of streaming devices, synchronizing these data streams using computer time, GPS time, or IRIG-B time.
Recording can be started and stopped using a variety of hardware and software triggering methods.
Frame capture rates are selectable, and can be scheduled using scripts.
Events of interest can be marked during or after recording for quick reference.

10. Videum 4400 AV Specs
Simultaneously capture 4 channels of audio and video
640x fps (NTSC) per channel
BNC connectors for video
4 stereo 1/4” mini jacks via breakout cable
Captures in YUV codec
Can use software to encode YUV to avi file

11. Videum 4400 AV Pros & Cons Cons Pros Costs $899
Captures 4 channel audio and video simultaneously
Free SDK development kit
Audio and video capture and preview
Digital zoom
Downloadable programs from website
Cons
Costs $899
Secondary program needed to encode from YUV to AVI
Coax to BNC adapters needed
May have problem connecting audio to jacks

12. Recommended Hardware Pentium 4 128 MB of ram 40 GB Hard Drive CD-Rom
Would use GHZ processor
128 MB of ram
Would use 1 GB of ram
40 GB Hard Drive
Would use 120 GB SATA hard drive
CD-Rom

13. Webcam Corp - WCSA440B Price $520 4 video processors (frame grabbers)
Proprietary video processing engine
Bundled Software designed more for surveillance applications
Recording Resolutions:
NTSC: 640x480, 352x240, 320x240, 176x112
PAL: 704x576, 640x576, 352x288, 320x288, 176x144

14. ITuner - Spectra 8 Price: $395 4 video processors (frame grabbers)
frame grabbing up to 120fps (4X30) in PAL/SECAM/NTSC
In Windows, each frame grabber channel has it's own WDM driver
No bundled software, but compatible with all frame-grabber applications

15. ViewCast Osprey Capture Cards
Multiple Capture cards per PC
Price $180 - $425 / card
Wider user/support base
(768x fps uncompressed)

16. MS Data Storage Services
Digital Archive
Intranet Interface
Browser Interface
MS IIS Server
IE Explorer or Similar
MS Windows 2003 Server
MS Windows
Server Hardware
Desktop Hardware
Network Interface
Network Interface
MS SQL Server
MS Data Storage Services
MS Windows 2003 Server
MS Windows 2003 Server
4 CPU Server Hardware
Data Storage Hardware

17. Discussion / Questions