High-definition Video Surveillance Time Monitoring Vendor Considerations

Currently, high-definition surveillance vendors must consider the issues of high-definition video quality, large-capacity storage, high-definition video transmission, and intelligent analysis of video images. In large-scale applications of video surveillance systems, large security applications that need to be resolved from the analog era to the digital era , Large-scale networking problems, when high-definition surveillance rises, this problem still exists, and will continue to affect the advancement of high-definition video surveillance applications.

According to Zhang Pengguo, vice president of H3C and president of the storage and multimedia business division, after the emergence of IP applications in the security industry, it is possible from a technical point of view to establish a national wide area network, including wide area transmission and wide area storage. , wide-area signaling, wide-area management, wide-area services, and more. However, at present, the most important bottleneck encountered in the development of network monitoring solutions is the lack of standardization. Compared with other branches of the information industry, the current level of standardization in the security industry is the most backward. This is reflected in the standardization of video codec technology, the standardization between different signalling and interfaces for networking, and the standardization of interfaces between business applications and management. In the entire industry, it is reflected in different manufacturers for different levels. The standardization of interfaces is probably the biggest factor restricting the development of network monitoring and industrial solutions at this stage. In the past, the entire industry was relatively fragmented. Therefore, this issue has not been so obvious in the security industry. With the current trend of networking, digitalization, and industrialization of the security industry becoming more and more obvious, the requirements for standardization have also increased, and higher demands have been placed on companies.

The first is that at the device level, there is a lack of corresponding standards for the underlying interface and signaling level. It is difficult to achieve this with a single manufacturer or several integrators in terms of industrial solutions. Secondly, in the strict sense, if traditional security or surveillance is to truly realize industrialized solutions, it is necessary to solve the problem of individualized differences in different industries. This is the first proposition. The second proposition is that industrial applications will inevitably require vertical networking, and even the establishment of a national wide area network, which requires a large amount of technical accumulation and technological innovation, and only those who have the strength of technological innovation, master the direction of technological innovation, and can maintain long-term investment Enterprises with organizational guarantees can use the relatively mature standardization technology of the IT industry to refer to the security industry. Only then can industry-oriented solutions be made.

Yan Xiaqing, vice president and product director of the H3C storage and multimedia business unit, believes that the domestic security industry has a large number of vendors, small scale, and narrow business coverage. It is difficult for vendors to provide a relatively complete basic platform for integrators to standardize. Value-added development. This makes the device-based SDK development model widely used in the traditional domestic monitoring industry value chain. In this mode, the integrator (ISV) conducts customized development for the customer's needs through vendor-supplied device SDK interfaces, develops basic management platforms and industry application platforms, and integrates storage devices while facing customers. However, this method can achieve some simple customized applications for small-scale monitoring projects. Once faced with complex large-scale monitoring projects, this method lacks a unified platform-level interface, weak system management capabilities, and development workload. The lack of large, heterogeneous shielding, and low level of interface abstraction is fully exposed. Integrators need to face front-end, mass storage, network, streaming media, value-added applications and other integrated development needs, because the various components in the monitoring program come from different vendors, lack of unified standards, open interfaces are different, in design time It is difficult to optimize the integration from the perspective of the overall solution, only passive adaptation.

On the other hand, due to the use of equipment from different vendors, it is necessary to coordinate the interests of all parties in the integration process. Problems may easily arise in positioning. This not only affects the efficiency of the processing problems, but also increases the implementation risks and implementation costs. From the perspective of the industry chain, build an infrastructure-based monitoring platform with sufficient compatibility, virtualize the basic equipment resources of front-end codec devices, networks, storage, platforms, and other monitoring systems, build a unified operating system on the underlying platform, and use modules. Standardization of interfaces and services to build their own business systems in the form of SDKs or IMOS middleware is important for the security industry. However, to complete the restructuring of the monitoring industry value chain, only one H3C is far from enough. It requires a group of powerful manufacturers willing to do basic work.