Sony and milestone collaborates to enhance reliability of surveillance technologies with edge recording solution
Sony Electronics Asia Pacific in collaboration with Milestone Systems has developed an edge recording solution designed to enhance reliability and performance of its CCTV surveillance technologies. The latest edge recording solution will be incorporated into Sony’s Generation 5 series of CCTV cameras.
Sony and Milestone have worked together to determine the formats of recording and retrieving protocols, to realize the seamless process between recording IP video that is stored on the camera, yet also included afterwards in the XProtect archiving server.
“Milestone and Sony share the same desire to improve the reliability of IP video surveillance through edge recording,” said John Blem, CTO and Co-Founder, Milestone Systems. “Our companies have had intensive engineer-to-engineer collaborative work to develop this solution since a year ago.” The edge recording solution that Milestone and Sony are developing is a unique solution. An XProtect server can retrieve recorded video and audio with the same codec, image size, FPS and bit rate as live streams of IP video from a camera via RTSP or HTTP. As a result, the edge recording solution will expand choices for end-users and installers when designing surveillance systems that require high reliability.
USE CASES
Backup and Failover: Edge Storage will work as the stand-by storage for a recoding server. The IP camera can automatically start recording video and audio when the network has disconnected, the application has failed, or the recording server has restarted for maintenance. After the network and system has recovered, the XProtect server can retrieve the missing part of the video and audio files from the IP camera’s storage.
Wireless Network Environment
In wireless network environments, network connectivity is sometimes unstable and IP cameras can easily lose the network connection to the server so live streaming from the camera is lost. The edge recording solution has the ability to record video in the camera storage and the XProtect server can sequentially playback that recorded video upon network recovery.
Recording Under Low Bandwidth Environments: Under a low bandwidth network environment, users sometimes find it difficult to have real time streaming with adequate resolution. In such cases, it is more efficient for users to transfer video from camera storage during off-peak hours such as night time, with the exception of video that alerts to important events. “With an edge recording solution, Milestone and Sony will provide the ability to overcome therisk of system failure in IP surveillance. This solution can dramatically reduce loss of video streams or recordings caused by equipment, application or system failure, such as network disconnection. I’m sure this solution will accelerate the migration to IP video even faster,” said Henrik Friborg Jacobsen, Co-Founder & VP Strategic Alliances, Milestone Systems.
“Combining the technological expertise of Milestone and Sony, the edge recording solution achieves optimum performance in IP-based CCTV system. The solution strengthens the value of Sony IP cameras in the high-end market, especially for critical security installations such as city surveillance, gaming, banking and transportation, where high reliability and flexibility is required. Also with the ability to combine centralized and in-camera storage, the edge solution will further drive adoption of IP surveillance systems by the SMB market where bandwidth may be limited,” said Yoshikazu Hirano, General Manager, for Security Solutions, Business & Professional Products Asia Pacific (BPPA), Sony Electronics Asia-Pacific.
Schedule: The Edge Recording solution will be available with Sony’s Generation 5 camera series and the next version of Milestone XProtect Corporate, due for release in late 2010 in Asia Pacific.
About Business & Professional Products Asia Pacific Company
Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets. Business & Professional Products Asia Pacific Company (BPPA) is established as a division company in Singapore under Sony Electronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. BPPA is the Asia Pacific headquarters for the B2B Solutions Business group of Sony Corporation. It markets Sony’s leading broadcast systems, professional video and audio products, as well as videoconferencing and surveillance systems in Asia other than Japan. It also provides customized business solutions, comprehensive technical support and after-sales service to help Sony’s customers stay at the forefront of their business.
Please visit our website at http://pro.sony-asia.com for more information.
About Milestone: Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the leading global developer of open platform IP video management software. XProtect™ gives users a powerful surveillance solution that is easy to manage,reliable and proven in more than 50,000 customer installations. With support for the industry’s widest choice in network hardware and integration with other systems, XProtect provides best-of-breed solutions to “video enable” organizations - reducing costs, optimizing processes, protecting people and assets. With headquarters in Denmark and ten international offices, Milestone software is sold through authorized partners in 107 countries.
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