3G launches new era of mobile monitoring and development

Since the advent of mobile monitoring technology, due to factors such as cost and network bandwidth, market applications have been tepid and far from meeting our expectations and market expectations. 3G and 4G technologies undoubtedly bring unprecedented opportunities for mobile surveillance. It is time for us to focus on the mobile surveillance market. 3G has opened up a new era in the mobile surveillance market and is optimistic about the future development prospects.

3G, opening a new era of mobile surveillance development

In January 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 3G operating licenses for the three major operators, indicating that China’s communications market has entered the 3G era. The three major operators have launched 3G wireless video surveillance services and rely on their own 3G wireless networks to integrate video surveillance and burglar alarm functions. This brings people a new wireless network video surveillance experience. The emergence of 3G will undoubtedly bring opportunities for the development of mobile video surveillance. The high bandwidth of 3G really meets the wireless transmission requirements of video surveillance. 3G wireless mobile video surveillance incorporates 3G transmission and video service functions, becoming a new highlight for long-distance and wide-range video surveillance.

The high bandwidth and mobility of 3G technology will undoubtedly promote the deep integration of security monitoring and mobile communications. Security monitoring will also realize a transition from analog surveillance, digital surveillance, and wired network surveillance to wireless video surveillance. The improvement of 3G network bandwidth will greatly expand the application areas of wireless mobile monitoring, enabling those areas and users who do not originally have wireless mobile monitoring requirements to easily apply mobile monitoring. It can be predicted that in the future, the more widely 3G-based wireless video applications are used.

What is even more gratifying is that shortly afterwards, 4G came out and began to pilot applications in cities such as Guangzhou and Hangzhou, which opened up a whole new door for mobile monitoring of bandwidth transmission. Like the fixed monitoring system, wireless mobile monitoring technology will also develop in the direction of high-definition in the future, and encoding technology will increasingly use H. 264HighProfile coding technology. Under the premise of guaranteeing the image quality, reduce the consumption of the bandwidth, improve the adaptability to the wireless network. What needs to be seen is that even with the support of 3G and 4G, it does not mean that the development of wireless mobile monitoring is free from obstacles and unimpeded. Because 3G or 4G is still at the pilot application stage.

The current 3G video mobile terminals are not yet fully applicable to 3G video surveillance. For example, in front-end storage, the size of an ordinary hard disk is too large, causing the entire machine to be unfavorable for installation. These problems still need to be solved, and the technology needs to be further improved. Currently, the reasons for restricting the development of 3G wireless monitoring and control applications are as follows: 1. The application of 3G in the field of wireless video surveillance has only just begun. There is no single unified industry standard. Private standards do not have compatibility, and large-scale promotion is difficult. Second, 3G network stability, coverage is the key issue currently exists. Although 3G networks have been covered in some urban hotspots, the number of 3G base stations is not enough, resulting in instability in certain areas. Third, there is no 3G network coverage in second and third-tier cities, economically underdeveloped regions and rural areas. This will, to some extent, be a constraint on the development of the wireless mobile surveillance market.

Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, frankly stated that there is still a big gap between China's domestic broadband technology and the international average. Optical fiber access has been included in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" development plan, and China's broadband is expected to accelerate significantly, and tariffs will also be greatly increased. Decrease accordingly.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that a series of measures will be implemented in 2012 to accelerate the pace of informationization, including the promotion of the "Broadband China" strategy, implementation of broadband Internet speed-up projects, piloting of IPv6 (Next-Generation Internet Protocol), and expansion of pilot cities for triple play . The National Development and Reform Commission has confirmed that it will launch a small-scale commercial trial of IPv6 networks by the end of 2013, and it will implement large-scale deployment and commercialization from 2014 to 2015. These are good factors for the development of wireless mobile monitoring.

With the continuous development of communication network technology and the further improvement of the network environment, it is believed that the development and application of wireless mobile video surveillance technology will surely enter a new stage of development.

Appealing market prospects for mobile monitoring applications

Mobile video surveillance system is flexible and can follow the characteristics of monitoring. Therefore, in some remote places such as mountainous areas, forests, and river basins, where it is impossible to lay conductors, or temporary monitoring sites, there is no need to lay wires, and traditional cable monitoring cannot meet the needs. Only mobile video surveillance is required. To meet the demand. Wireless mobile surveillance is a true “telescope” and “wind-fighting ear”. Therefore, it has the unparalleled and irreplaceable advantages of traditional monitoring, especially in bus, subway, emergency command, on-site maintenance, on-site law enforcement and other applications, the application prospects are very lure people.

We are gratified to see that while network transmission is in favor of the popularization of mobile monitoring technology, mobile monitoring technology itself is constantly improving. Nowadays bus surveillance cameras, mobile surveillance cameras, and individual mobile wireless surveillance cameras are all equipped with night vision functions, and monitoring distances are further and further away, such as the recently launched infrared laser night-vision police vehicle-mounted pan/tilt heads in Shenzhen Baoqianli. The monitoring distance reaches 400 meters.

In terms of applications, mobile phone (or mobile terminal) monitoring is mostly used by enterprise users, industry users, and home users. The market potential of the civilian market is huge; bus movement monitoring is mainly used in the transportation field, and also includes long-distance passenger cars, dangerous goods transport vehicles, etc. The market space is very large; on-board mobile monitoring is mainly applied to law enforcement vehicles, including police vehicles, emergency command vehicles, urban law enforcement vehicles, fire engines, etc.; law enforcement recorders and mobile individual equipment are more professional in relative application fields, but they also have Not a small market potential. With the continuous development and maturity of mobile monitoring technologies and the continuous decline in network and deployment costs, the spring of wireless mobile monitoring and control will surely come.

So how big is the mobile surveillance market? In the following, we will only analyze bus movement monitoring as an example.

In recent years, bus mobile monitoring applications can be said to be in full swing, and the installation of mobile surveillance cameras for buses has become common practice. Up to now, Shenzhen has installed more than 20,000 mobile surveillance cameras, installed 3 buses per bus, and networked with public security 110. Images captured by cameras can be transmitted to public security command centers simultaneously. At the end of 2007, Guangzhou City installed cameras for more than 8,000 buses in the city. The total number of cameras installed will exceed 26,000. Cities like Dongguan and Foshan in the same Pearl River Delta have also widely installed mobile surveillance cameras for buses in the city. Most buses are installed with 3, and some with 4 and 2 installed. Dongguan installed mobile surveillance cameras on 6000 buses in the city with a total investment of over 100 million yuan. How many buses are there in the country? There is no statistics available. Only nine cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi’an, and Chongqing have a total of more than 100,000 buses. The bus monitoring market can be as large as one can imagine. There is also the taxi mobile surveillance market, as much as the bus mobile video surveillance.

In recent years, mobile video surveillance of law enforcement vehicles has risen quietly. Due to the need for on-site law enforcement, many law enforcement agencies such as the public security, judiciary, traffic police, and urban management have installed mobile video surveillance systems for law enforcement vehicles. We take Guangdong as an example. According to the “Three-year Plan for Social Security Video Surveillance System Construction in Guangdong Province (2012-2014)”, more than 70% of all police vehicles in Guangdong Province must install on-board mobile video surveillance systems to achieve on-site law enforcement. monitor. In the future, this demand will expand and extend to more provinces and cities and more law enforcement agencies, so this market can not be ignored.

Then, in the next few years, can mobile monitoring be equal to fixed monitoring and IP monitoring? Can mobile surveillance become the protagonist of the surveillance market? let us wait and see.

About mobile monitoring

Mobile monitoring refers to the use of dynamic forms of front-end video image acquisition, professional-grade video surveillance products transmitted over the wireless or network, which can be received and viewed through mobile methods. For example, mobile phones or computers can monitor remote real-time dynamic images. A simpler, more convenient, and more timely monitoring solution for launching and mobile reception. Mobile monitoring can be said to be the result of a close combination of wireless network technology and traditional security monitoring technologies.

Mobile monitoring products can be broadly divided into two categories: First, mobile monitoring equipment through wireless transmission, monitoring of fixed or non-fixed locations, such as law enforcement vehicles through surveillance cameras mounted on the roof or through law enforcement officers carrying handheld surveillance cameras , Real-time image acquisition on the scene of law enforcement; Second, through the mobile terminal equipment (such as mobile phones), access to fixed surveillance cameras for fixed locations and places collected images, such as 3G mobile phone monitoring. At present, mobile monitoring product forms include: mobile phone (or mobile terminal) monitoring, bus movement monitoring, vehicle-mounted mobile monitoring (mainly law enforcement vehicles), law enforcement recorders, and mobile individual equipment.