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upon video surveillance solutions. Thank- fully, a new and robust era for IP video tech- nologies mean an industry readily suited to meet these demands, including planned and unplanned future expansions and require- ments, as additional cameras, sites (even those in other countries) can be brought online seamlessly, available to local/on-site, mobile, and centralized monitors with full data integrity.
IP video provides a freedom and flexibil- ity to end-users, along with the full access to the use and potential of surveillance data, that was unheard of with analog installa- tions, and makes each installation—includ- ing upgrades and expansions—more valu- able than ever to end-users, something that holds real value for systems integrators as well, as John Rezzonico, CEO of Virginia- based Edge360 notes, the customer relation- ship is strengthened when companies like his can “solve a customer’s security challenge in the best, most effective, and most efficient way possible, particularly by maximizing what they already have.”
Much of that value lies in the uniquely feature rich world the IP video renaissance has crafted for us. Even as early under- standing and adoption of IP technologies found its footing, forward-thinking manu- facturers were innovating aggressively to make full use of IP’s potential and deliver breakthrough after breakthrough to the marketplace.
Today, IP video technology, leveraging contemporaneous advances in hardware, compression, and storage, enables function- ality—security and business analytics, re- dundancy features, fail over services, remote and mobile monitoring, direct from camera event notification, and many others—that could not have existed, some not even imag- ined, in traditional analog solutions, or that take traditional features and benefits, and push them beyond previous limits. Result- ing second and third order benefits, such as increased business intelligence for consum- ers, help further make the business case for IP video, and drive continued demand for further innovation from the industry.
“Video analytics are critical for us in any remote monitoring application and it is more efficient to have content analysis on edge,” San Kim of the Arizona-based Surveillance Acquisition Response Center (SARC) said. “Analog cameras do not have the resources or capability to have analytics on the camera itself, which complicates the system and in- troduces another potential point of failure by using PC based VCA servers to process ana- lytics on analog cameras. And that’s just one of many IP video-enabled advancements that make the work of monitoring complex envi- ronments easier and more efficient, something both we and our customers benefit from.”
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