With the growing trend towards replacing analogue CCTV with IP surveillance, users are become more aware of the value of the benefits of IP surveillance techology. Meanwhile, with the desire for high definition video, bandwidth, and storage capacity is becoming larger and larger. In large sites, such as shopping malls, factories, airports etc, customers require hundreds of HD IP cameras, sometime even thousands. They typically face the obstacles of efficiency, bandwidth, and storage to process enormous video streaming. They manage and monitor in different stations increasing the complexities and difficulties of deployment, which can also leads exposing them to unknown security risks.

The ISS solution supports up to 1,000 IP cameras, real time streaming, in 1080p resolution from multiple sites. Enormous amounts of megapixel recordings are streamed through 10G Ethernet to NVRs for intelligent analytics and event handling, and can be saved to a backend ISCSI storage system in a private cloud. Users utilise a central control platform to retrieve video from NVRs for live view, playback, and management. Simultaneously, all the data will be replicated to cloud storage for offsite backup.

In typical cases, such an overwhelming amount of recordings with high definition would certainly overload the efficiency of the video processing, bandwidth and storage, or could even leave the system unstable. Technical limitations push managers to give in and accept the structure in its current form, which could be leaving them weighed down with management and maintenance problems, on top of total cost of ownership.

The ISS solution supports remote management, health check and trouble-shooting of hardware and software. Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) features a remote management capability to support such a huge structure of connected devices. In case a hang or blue screen occurs, or if the update process is interrupted, or even the OS crashes, then AMT can reboot the system and operate remotely, and it secures the system in a protected environment as well. The hardware KVM function allows the administrator to retrieve details of device info and status without reconfiguration. The remote management facility allows enterprises to deal with maintenance more easily, and save more time, costs, and workforce.

The more IP cameras, the clearer resolution, the higher efficiency, the lower cost.