How Do I Deal With Changing Camera Names On Portable Vmses?

John Honovich

IPVM | 11/18/13 11:31pm

Let's say I have a portable VMS. For instance, I am a police officer and I use a system for covert or field monitoring. One day I am on the South side looking at a pizzeria. The next day I am monitoring a suspected meth lab on the North side. Day after, another spot, etc.

I want a way to look up cameras based on the name of the location I was at. The problem is VMSes / recorders typically treat a camera name constant because the camera is assumed to be in a single place. If I name it Pizzeria front door, that works for day 1 but then on day 2 the same camera / input is looking at a meth lab, etc.

Any VMSes or any techniques to handle something like this. Btw, this is not an abstract question. There is a real request for such capability.

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11/19/13 02:43am

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IPVM | In reply to Chris Dearing | 11/19/13 04:54am

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