Beware! The ‘invisible’ eye is watching you

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: high performance CCTV recording and IP transmission solution with embedded analytics and scalable video wall capability. Company officials say that it represents a generational shift in the capability of systems in the enterprise field.

Even otherwise, technology has moved on dramatically in recent times with the flexibility of the latest, scalable, networked video over IP solutions coming under the spotlight in the ongoing battle against vandalism, criminal activity and global terrorism. Video over IP for surveillance really comes into its own on sites where video servers can be readily integrated into the existing computer infrastructure. This could be done by distributing video images on demand across a LAN or WAN to as many viewing terminals as required.

Security experts inform that when it comes to video over IP, there is a great deal of hype in the market. Much of this is created by those who only have IP products to sell, and IP infrastructure providers who want to stimulate traffic growth so that they can sell more routers and other networking products and services.

Germany-based Mobotix too is sounding the death knell for CCTV. Its country manager for India operations, Graham Wheeler, says a hunt was on for partners to help tackle the exploding IP video market. The company develops and manufactures professional network cameras for security systems, production monitoring and internet applications. In India, it is looking for systems integrators from the IT sector, communications integrators and dealers with a focus on security or process automation.