Network-Based Video Surveillance

The future of video surveillance, without a doubt, lies with IP-based technology. It’s where there is constant development and innovation including big improvements in image quality.

Over the years, video surveillance has demonstrated its value as a security measure again and again in a wide variety of situations. Today, there has been a major shift in surveillance technology from analog CCTV to networked (or IP-based) digital video. Along with this shift, comes an impressive list of benefits, including increased capabilities, convenience, flexibility, lower cost of ownership and increasingly superior image quality. Thus video surveillance is now becoming another application on the corporate network managed by the IT department. Because it dovetails with existing IT systems, IP-based surveillance affords scalability, ease of management and requires less cabling than analog cameras. As a result, it has become the number one choice of organizations wanting to add or expand their existing surveillance system.

Although most of its uses fall under security surveillance, network video can be used in an almost unlimited number of indoor, outdoor and remote monitoring applications. In fact, video-enabled processes in all areas of operations, including production lines, employee/client interactions, traffic or customer flow, can help organizations reduce costs, as well as facilitate better and faster decisions.
As experts in IT network design and systems integration, Advanced Network Systems can analyze, engineer and install new systems and phased IP-enabled transitions for a wide variety of applications across either wired or wireless network infrastructures.