Needed Clarity is Accelerating Change
With the increased availability and lower costs of high resolution camera technologies from various manufacturers and resellers, the convergence of physical and digital security and the adoption of cost-effective high-capacity networks, there is a shift to higher resolution/higher capacity video surveillance solutions. The expected goal: improved protection per square foot of coverage. The unexpected result: Higher than expected storage costs.

Barriers to Change are Falling..But Grainy video will become a thing of the past with the adoption of high and very high resolution IP based solutions. Historically, this adoption has been hindered by bandwidth, acquisition and high deployment costs. The industry has taken on these challenges and as a result, the acquisition costs for IP based, mega-pixel cameras and DVR/NVR systems continue to drop along with the cost and availability of Gigabit Ethernet networks continue to improve.

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The New Cost Barrier to Entry: STORAGE Now the downside: the increased resolution comes at a price: rapidly growing storage requirements. The image to the right demonstrates that a typical CIF image size generates about 8K where a 2.0 megapixel camera will generate up to 300K per frame. In fact, a single mega-pixel camera can generate over a terabyte of data every day. TimeSight™ video lifecycle solutions solve these storage costs issues.

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