IP Security CCTV Connector
Use this bandwidth-efficient digital video transmitter to connect just about any standard analog CCTV camera to your corporate network or the Internet.
Through this economical connection, you can tap into live streaming video from previously installed closed-circuit cameras, such as those used for security purposes. Because the IP Security CCTV Connector uses your existing LAN/WAN infrastructure for transmission and has an integrated DHCP server, you can reduce the costs of connecting equipment within an enterprise-wide system.
TCP/IP addressable, the IP Security CCTV Connector allows simultaneous access by two receivers. These receivers can be two viewing stations, two IP Security Digital Recorders, or one viewing station and one IP Security Digital Recorder.
The LAN interface is autosensing 10/100BASE-T. For composite video input, there’s a 75-ohm BNC analog video interface. The CCTV Connector also has control ports (an RS- 232 DB9 passthrough port and an RS-422/485 RJ-11 connector) for accessing the CCTV Connector remotely. A CCTV video loop function enables you to add additional CCTV Connectors to your setup or to output to other CCTV devices.
With the included GUI-based software utility (which is identical to that shipped with the IP Security Camera), you can limit the amount of bandwidth used by the IP Security CCTV Connector. This is done using the software’s throttling function. You’re also given two display modes. You can switch on the fly between standard color video display or mono- chrome display for up to 30% more video throughput.
What’s more, the device’s proprietary codec algorithms result in faster frames per second and lower bandwidth usage. This level of digital video compression frees bandwidth space for other network applications and allows you to install more cameras on your network.
IP Security Digital Recorder
Compared to traditional time-lapse recording, digital video recording can be a time and money saver while providing you with greater flexibility and the means to automate the recording process. The IP Security Digital Recorder, however, takes digital video recording a step further—it’s a network- based digital video recorder!
Why rely on an expensive centralized storage system to store digital video when you can make use of the distributed storage capacity of your network? This software-based recorder enables you to convert any Pentium® II class PC on your network to a digital video recorder. Video can be played back as a standard .avi file on any authorized Windows computer anywhere in the world.
Network-based digital video recording offers increased efficiency at a reduced cost. Camera images captured at multiple facilities can be recorded at a central location. Or you can set up the IP Security Digital Recorder so recorded clips link automatically to your other database records. Digital video recording also eliminates the administrative cost of handling tapes and cleaning VCR heads.
The network-based nature of the system also allows both the IP Security Digital Recorder and its video sources to be connected to your existing LAN cabling, with no need to pull expensive coax to support the connection.
And this is no ordinary recorder that’s only able to capture one camera shot at a time. The IP Security Digital Recorder can record up to 16 camera feeds simultaneously and at frame rates up to 30 fps (frames per second)—rates that are unattainable with ordinary VCR/multiplexor combos. Specifically, the software can record 30 fps of digital video frames on a single stream basis and up to 4 fps with multiple video streams.
It’s able to do this by using the network as its video multiplexor, and this process is aided by sophisticated codec technology that compresses the data for recording. You also get efficient video-transmission capabilities for reduced bandwidth consumption and extended recording time.
The IP Security Digital Recorder software enables you to also view images while they’re being recorded by a remote camera (or any other video device, for that matter). So it’s essentially a recorder that‘s also a real-time observation platform. You can play back all recorded views in a 4 x 4
(16-image), split-screen format, or play back any individual stream.
And finding the images you‘ve recorded is easy—no more fiddling with an analog multiplexor and a VCR to track down a camera shot. The viewer software provided with the IP Security Digital Recorder offers reduced search time, making it simple to retrieve recorded video clips to play back over your LAN, WAN, or Virtual Private Network (VPN). The powerful search engine locates images by time, date, and location. Using a calendar-based time and date search engine, you can view recorded video from any location, instantly locating and viewing the minute an event took place.
With the software‘s powerful, user-friendly GUI, you can easily navigate within the application with standard mouse and keyboard techniques. The software also includes an ODBC-compliant driver for setting up recording schedules and logging events, alarms, and location ID. Snapshots can be stored on an event basis.
