What other new products or technologies are impacting the development and implementation of video surveillance systems?
DEFINA: First it’s important to define the basic system configurations that form the foundation for all systems today: analog, hybrid and IP. Panasonic addresses all of these systems models to support both legacy and new system installations. The fact is that 80 to 85 percent of all video systems sold today are analog. We recently visited a large healthcare site with remote campuses that is presently using a hybrid system and replacing its IP cameras with analog models as a result of overburdened network infrastructure. In this case, they can yield higher performance more efficiently by supplementing their system with analog satellite systems that are then networked to their central command station. In this instance, newly developed DVRs and video servers provide the cross-platform capabilities to effectively integrate these satellite analog sub-systems with existing IP video surveillance systems for centralized control via a network backbone. It’s an innovative solution that exemplifi
