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TimeSight and Video Lifecycle Management (VLM): Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems by Frost & Sullivan

Increasing security and compliance requirements have translated into greater adoption rates for higher resolution surveillance solutions. But the need for higher resolution video images places a considerable strain on the consumer's investments, particularly in terms of storage acquisition and operational costs. In fact, today's high resolution surveillance solutions—more than 50% of the initial equipment costs—are now storage, holding back mass adoption of quality, video-based security.

TimeSight Systems effectively addresses and helps accelerate the adoption of high resolution cameras by ensuring that the cost of storage does not escalate. The company's innovative and dynamic implementation of H.264 encoding and compression, combined with the storage management practice, Video Lifecycle Management (VLM) enables the use of high resolution solutions without sacrificing retention.

Video LifeCycle Management (VLM): The management practice of reducing the costs of storing video data over time based on specific business rules and events.

TimeSight Systems provides consumers with the flexibility and control over video storage and size to ensure the maximum return on their surveillance investments. Learn how to see more with less storage.

Motion Optimized Recording (MORe)

In today’s high resolution environments, which often require 30 days or more of retention, it’s not uncommon for storage costs to exceed 50% or more of the cost of the entire surveillance system. This cost places an incredible financial burden on an organization during a time when budgets are tight. Often, to manage this storage conundrum, users must make tradeoffs and concessions in order to comply with minimal regulations or manage their existing budget, without fully considering the resulting gaps in security that these tradeoffs cause. One such concession is the record-on-motion (ROM) profile, which records only when sufficient motion which meets pre-defined criteria is detected. ROM technology attempts to minimize video data storage by only capturing periods where the motion meets a predefined threshold. From a storage perspective, the result is fairly straightforward: if surveillance cameras capture motion about 40 percent of the time in any given time period (hour/day/week), then the storage requirements are reduced by about 60 percent. While on the surface this method may seem like an effective way to reduce storage costs, it comes with increased risk. The business sacrifices an ‘unbroken timeline of video’, and introduces gaps in visibility into what might or might not have happened during the recording period. Additionally, there are many factors that can greatly affect the assumptions and conditions that make this appear to be strictly an arithmetic equation.

Motion Optimized Recording (MORe) is the solution

TimeSight Systems has taken security to the next level with its innovation of Motion Optimized Recording (MORe), which redefines the way motion and non-motion video is recorded. It enables the customer to record all of the video from all of the cameras all of the time, while massively saving on storage needs.

In deploying MORe, a system recognizes when there is motion, and when there isn’t. However, in times of perceived ‘non-motion’, recording isn’t stopped; rather, the recording continues but using a storage optimized profile. Normally, this means increasing compression (to make frame sizes smaller), and decreasing frame rate (to make overall volume of video captured smaller). However, in all cases, recording continues with a minimum of one frame per second, to allow an unbroken timeline when viewing video.