Megapixels Without Mega Storage

The need to eliminate grainy video and security recording gaps along with the increased availability and lower costs of D1, VGA and megapixel camera technologies, are all causing a shift to higher resolution/higher capacity video surveillance installations. The result: Improved security, protection and compliance, but at what cost?

The New Barrier to Higher Resolution

Increased resolution comes at a price of rapidly growing storage requirements to retain all those rich yet large images. The graph demonstrates that a typical CIF image size generates about 8K per image/frame, where a 2.0 megapixel camera will generate about 200K per frame. This means that a single two megapixel camera at 5 frames per second (fps) can generate a terabyte of data every 12 days. TimeSight video lifecycle management solutions solve these storage cost issues,  allowing users to deploy higher resolution cameras without the traditional storage burdens.

TimeSight Video Lifecycle Management (VLM) solutions are the latest intelligent network video recorder solutions that incorporate patent-pending compression over time (dynamic H.264) and Motion Optimized Recoding (MORe), enabling users to record and keep all high resolution video (motion and non-motion) for the required retention, while dramatically reducing the amount of storage.