ISC West

Did anyone see anything new at ISC West? What did you find intresting?

Permalink Reply by John Honovich on April 15, 2008 at 8:54pm: In terms of younger companies, I continue to be impressed with Avigilon. It's focus on building a solution tailored to megapixel surveillance is enabling large-scale high definition camera networks to become a reality.

Adding support for analog cameras is an important milestone for them as it now allows mainstream customers to seriously consider using them for broader projects with legacy systems.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CCTV Blog Admin on April 15, 2008 at 9:08pm: Intresting. How do you feel about the issue of recording Megapixel. There seems to be a problem with recording especially long term. Since compression is not an option for megapixel it seems that this is the only problem with the technology.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Honovich on April 15, 2008 at 10:12pm: I agree with you that recording will be a major concern. Similarly, bandwidth as well.

There's no magic bullet but I think you see a number of factors attack the problem over time:

- Exclusion zones. Manually eliminating recording of areas not of interest.
- Analytic filtering: Using analytics to not record areas or times when there are no activity.
- Improved compression: moving from MJPEG to MPEG-4 to H.264 (over time)
- Multi-tiered storage strategies: higher frame rate and resolution for the first x number of days, lower frame rate and resolution for extended storage
- Fall in the price of storage making the sheer volume more tenable (10 years ago with the first DVRs 1 GB was a lot of storage, today we can store 1000 times that amount in an appliance).

I think it's going to take time but the economics of reducing camera costs make such a transition inevitable.; ▶ Reply to This