That claim was made at IFSEC 2009 on Monday by Dedicated Micros at the launch of its “revolutionary” Integrated Camera Recorder, a decentralised concept combining a megapixel or standard IP camera with a video server.
Said Pauline Norstrom, director of worldwide marketing: “There are also underlying large scale network upgrade costs which involve the installation of high performance IT servers.
“None of this is revealed to the users when they choose the IP NVR solution.
“Without the network upgrade, many of these systems do not achieve the performance promised.
“Dedicated Micros is not against IP CCTV. In fact the product line DVIP stands for distributed video over IP and that’s been our philosophy, but in reality for recording and transmission and storage of CCTV, the IP environment is not ideal and we advocate a decentralised server model.
“End users should not be placed in a position where they have to upgrade their network to employ an IP system.”
Norstrom said that network downtime was a major problem.
“Network downtime has a detrimental impact on the ability to record vital evidence. If the network goes down you’re not recording your evidence.”
Another flaw in the IP NVR model is that it cannot redisplay multiple streams of D1 video without a huge upgrade, she said.
To overcome all these problems and to challenge the centralised IP concept – a “failsafe” solution.
The ICR is a compact package that delivers “robust, failsafe, recording at the edge of a customer’s network.”
Available with megapixel, VGA or analogue resolution, the ICR offers 12pps (megapixel) and 30pps (standard IP camera) frame rates with one day of recording at 2048 Mb/s thanks to its 32GB of onboard solid state storage provided by a microSD card or similar.
The ICR supports the transmission of multiple, simultaneous video streams in MPEG-4 and JPEG for live viewing and recording.
