Networked Video Surveillance- white paper

Networked Video Surveillance

by- Satish Gupta

http://www.cradle.com/network_video_surveillance_white_paper.html

Video Surveillance Industry is experiencing a tremendous growth in demand worldwide, not only due to increased security demands, but also due to globalization. As businesses need to operations dispersed in multiple locations, it has become critical that the video surveillance systems go beyond security and help improve the real time remote supervision. Internet is ubiquitous and the broadband is becoming available and affordable everywhere. It is required that the video and audio from any location such as a factory floor or hotel lobby be accessible by appropriate and authorized management from anywhere regardless of location, anytime and by using any means, such as a laptop or a PDA. Whenever, there is a situation that warrants immediate attention an alert with relevant information needs to be sent to appropriate personnel in real time. These requirements are being driven as much by the medium size commercial customers as by the enterprise and infrastructure projects.