Eagle Eye Exec On Mountain Of Servers - VSaaS Growth Analysis

Brian,

I'm going to reach out to you directly about Eagle Eye. But I'll also provide some info here.

A client engaged me to evaluate two VMS systems, one on-premises and the other Eagle Eye. Taking a very close look at how the Eagle Eye system is designed and what it's like to use it, I was pleasantly surprised to see the depth of engineering applied around two aspects of the system: user experience and bandwidth management.

A lot of good engineering went into addressing the challenges a cloud-based VMS faces. Long term technology trends favor what Eagle Eye is doing, as bandwidth keeps increasing, and the cost of computing keeps decreasing, as does the required power consumption. Small business and residential adoption of cloud-based video trends independently of mediums-size and enterprise adoption. 

Eagle Eye does offer both Bridge units (for buffering) and Cloud-Managed Video Recorder (CMVR) appliances. Some customers want to store video locally but access it remotely, and the performance of the remote video access (whether by browser or mobile app) is very smooth regardless of whether the video is stored on-site or in the cloud.

Engineering for User Experience: I'll give you one example of the good engineering, which is how they built the video timeline and viewing control capabilities. Video metadata (motion, etc.) is always sent to the cloud, regardless of where the video is being recorded. Analytics create what they call a Key Image, a snapshot of the motion-triggering object when it is the largest as it ever gets, and as close to the center of the scene image it ever gets.

Key Images are also sent to the cloud in real time. When you navigate the timeline from one motion event to the next, you can view the Key Image -- which is typically the exact video frame that you want to see. And that view/search capability has the same performance regardless of where video is located at the time, on-site or in the cloud.

Because search is metadata-based (which is a common VMS capability nowadays), its performance is good regardless of the device used for viewing, app or web-based.

Engineering for Bandwidth Management: The VMS gives the integrator and/or end user the technical insight needed to adjust the recording and transmit-to-cloud profiles to take respectful maximum advantage of available bandwidth.

The Eagle Eye VMS provides 13 graph-based system performance metrics. They cover every aspect of bandwidth availability and usage, and local buffering/cloud storage performance, that you want to see to optimize the recording and video transmission to cloud configuration.

Sorry for such a long comment, but I didn't want to make any assertions without backing them up. Between the website pages and downloadable documentation, there is plenty of information available, including on the Eagle Eye VMS cyber security profile.

-Ray

Thanks Hans,

I am curious though..... just as I believe that Canon continuing to operate Axis and Milestone as separate entities after buying them both is operationally "inelegant", it's hard not to believe the same thing regarding Mr. Drako operating two complementary companies independent of each other - vs the much more operationally elegant combination of one combo company that offers two complementary functionalities in one product.

What are you thoughts on this? (if you are able to respond; I can understand if not).