by Guest » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:02 am
Hi again, i have the link you suggested Doishi, thank you. you have opened my eyes to something we were thinking about, the issue of monitoring many cameras in the HQ, would surely require alot of WAN bandwith.storing the video locally is not a big deal as we can store on 320x240 with mpeg4 and either 10FPS, 5FPS or even 1FPS to limit the storing in every branch or higher if they have a big HDD space. but can we have the monitoring software (SMVMS) in the HQ get stills, rather than Video, from the Branches? in other words can it be programmed to get a single image from each camera every 3 seconds or 5 seconds? thus limiting the bandiwtdh usage. or we need the AVMS, or this is not possible at all? another work around would be to limit to a single camera per site viewing in the HQ, with 1 FPS and lowest bandwidth used, which would amount to roughly 31Kbps need per camera, and thus very feasible. the problem with getting stills or low FPS in the HQ would be if they choose to deploy a PTZ camera, but then they have the option of upgrading the bandwidth for such needs. another idea, if doable, is to have the SMVMS change the feed from branch to branch based on a time scale, for example show Branch 1 (3 cameras) for 20 seconds, then remove Brance 1, and goto Branch 2 with 2 IP Cameras, then remove Branch 2, goto Branch 3 for 1 IP Camera, and so on, then the viewer can simply click on the branch or camera he needs to monitor for more time and do the PTZ if needed, before going back to the rotating cycle. is this doable? looking forward to your proffsional answer(s) on the stills or rotating camera idea...
Hi again, i have the link you suggested Doishi, thank you. you have opened my eyes to something we were thinking about, the issue of monitoring many cameras in the HQ, would surely require alot of WAN bandwith.storing the video locally is not a big deal as we can store on 320x240 with mpeg4 and either 10FPS, 5FPS or even 1FPS to limit the storing in every branch or higher if they have a big HDD space. but can we have the monitoring software (SMVMS) in the HQ get stills, rather than Video, from the Branches? in other words can it be programmed to get a single image from each camera every 3 seconds or 5 seconds? thus limiting the bandiwtdh usage. or we need the AVMS, or this is not possible at all? another work around would be to limit to a single camera per site viewing in the HQ, with 1 FPS and lowest bandwidth used, which would amount to roughly 31Kbps need per camera, and thus very feasible. the problem with getting stills or low FPS in the HQ would be if they choose to deploy a PTZ camera, but then they have the option of upgrading the bandwidth for such needs. another idea, if doable, is to have the SMVMS change the feed from branch to branch based on a time scale, for example show Branch 1 (3 cameras) for 20 seconds, then remove Brance 1, and goto Branch 2 with 2 IP Cameras, then remove Branch 2, goto Branch 3 for 1 IP Camera, and so on, then the viewer can simply click on the branch or camera he needs to monitor for more time and do the PTZ if needed, before going back to the rotating cycle. is this doable? looking forward to your proffsional answer(s) on the stills or rotating camera idea...
