How Will IP Camera Standards Impact Video Surveillance?
By John Honovich
Over the next 6 months, more than a dozen manufacturers are likely to announce production support for ONVIF or PSIA IP camera specifications. While...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Fears are rising that IP cameras can and willl be hacked. At Defcon, a demonstration showed an IP camera's feed intercepted and replaced by a...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Video Surveillance storage specialist, Pivot3 has released a new product called VideoBank [link no longer available] - a 2RU appliance that bundles...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
An interesting video of a Cisco account manager demoing retail video analytics [link no longer available] has been posted. In it, the Cisco manager...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
The 174 page July 2009 Monthly Summary Report PDF is now available, including: Testing Cisco's SMB Software and Cameras Examining the Benefits of...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Stretch announced a 4 channel HDcctv capture card. Since the card will be used by OEMs for integration into DVR systems, product shipment to end...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
In a July 2009 report about calculating video surveillance bandwidth, I mentioned that calculators generally suffer from not including key...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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Pelco has announced "super deals" on their IP cameras [link no longer available] through the end of September 2009. Called the "Go-IP" Promotion,...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
SSN featured a small DVR company offering HD SDI cameras (some similar features to HDcctv but not part of the HDcctv Alliance/standard). The...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
TimeSight, a VMS manufacturer best known for their storage optimization technology, has added on-board analog capture cards, enabling their NVRs to...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Alarm.com is expanding into the video surveillance market with a hosted video offering similar to Axis STS. With 200,000 current customers and 800...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Veracity has released an appliance, called Pinpoint, that simplifies IP camera focusing. The appliance allows an installer to connect their laptop...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Dallmeier has announced an HD product series line including (no surprise) HD cameras [link no longer available] and HD recorders [link no longer...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Mobotix has released a whitepaper by Frost & Sullivan. It's essentially a collection of Mobotix marketing material with the controversial Frost...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Megapixel was the most dominant trend in IP cameras over the first half of 2009. So dominant was megapixel, that not only did most manufacturers...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Cohu is a specialist manufacturer for high-end monitoring applications. They are probably best known for their traffic management product offerings...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
The UK's love-hate relationship with CCTV cameras continues. This time, the head of the UK's police video imaging division called their use an...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
This week, both Cisco and ADT contributed to iControl's $23M USD in Series B funding [link no longer available]. ADT's contribution is not...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
One of the most common end user questions is: How do you watch video from multiple DVR/VMS systems in a singular interface? The options are poor,...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Though the Japanese market is one of the largest in the world, it is one of the most difficult for Western companies to understand and succeed. Not...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Over the first half of 2009, improvements in deployment simplicity was the strongest theme for video management systems. While few to no...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
This month, SDM Magazine released their 14th annual Top Systems Integrators list. The list ranks the top 100 integrators based on 2008 revenue. The...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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Two fairly sizable companies are joining the HDcctv Alliance - Chinese video surveillance leader CSST [link no longer available] and Wide Dynamic...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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