Designed and installation of a complete turnkey of a wide range of low voltage technology systems.
Wireless & Audio / Video Solutions
Corporate Board / Conference Rooms
Projectors and Screens
Microphone Systems
Paging / Intercom
Background Music Systems
Video Conferencing
VOIP Systems
Access Points
Line or Non-Line of Sight
Wireless Bridges
Mesh Networks
Cell Extenders
Video Surveillance
Video Analytics
Remote Web Access
Motion Activated
Analog and/or IP
PTZ via Mouse or Joystick
Event Capable
Scalable
Rigid Environments
Multi-Site/EnterpriseSystems• OpenArchitecture
Systems Integration
IndustrialAutomation,PLCs, SCADA Systems
EnvironmentalMonitoring/ Reporting/Compliance
EnergyMonitoring & Management
RemoteWebAccess/Control
Custom-EngineeredSolutions
Access Control
Swipe, Keypad, Proximity and/or Biometric
IntegrationwithCCTV• Gates/Turnstiles
Scalable
RigidEnvironments
VideoAnalytics
EventCapable
Multi-Site/EnterpriseSystems• OpenArchitecture
Video ANALYTICS
Lower Upfront Capital Expenditures
A well-established cloud savings benefit is the reduced upfront capital costs, offering companies the opportunity to invest precious capital into other business areas, whether it is cash on hand or borrowed money.
Fully Utilized Hardware
Because multiple companies share server infrastructure, the hardware is more fully utilized, and the cost for supporting workloads goes down.
Lower Power Costs
Better hardware utilization means no idle servers. When you run your own data center, you will rarely fully-utilize your servers. Idle servers waste energy. So the better hardware utilization of the shared infrastructure also means more efficient power use, and the energy costs are lower.
Reduced IT Staffing Cost
The expenses associated with experienced IT personnel, including salary, benefits and other employment costs, is typically greater than the cost of hardware and software. The cloud provider’s IT staff supports a shared infrastructure, so the total IT personnel cost is lower than if you did the work in-house. Thus you can reduce your own IT expenses, or redeploy employees to areas generating greater income.
Reliability & Redundancy
To achieve a highly redundant and reliable system, you must purchase additional hardware to protect against failures. Having spare hardware lying idle is an expensive way to maximize uptime. Typical cloud systems have several data center locations.
Fundamental Elements of a “True Cloud” System (VSaaS)
Cloud technology is still new enough to video surveillance that there is some confusion. A true cloud video surveillance system – or VSaaS – with its associated benefits, is very different from a traditional DVR, NVR, or video management software (VMS) solution connected to the internet for remote access or remote storage.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing which can help clarify some of the differences. NIST defines a cloud system as having five “essential characteristics,” as summarized below.
On-Demand Self-Service
A user can automatically set and adjust capabilities without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
Broad Network Access
The capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by thin or thick clients, such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations.
Resource Pooling
The service provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth.
Rapid Elasticity
Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand.
Measured Service
Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability appropriate to the type of service. Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency.
To deliver these five “true cloud” essential characteristics the compute resources are executed in a shared cloud infrastructure – it can be a public or a private cloud. Let’s look at how this works for VSaaS (cloud video surveillance) in contrast with a traditional DVR, NVR or VMS that is connected to the internet.