เทคนิคการทำกล้องวงจรปิดออนไลน์อย่างง่ายด้วยสไคพ์

ระบบรักษาความปลอดภัยด้วยกล้องวงจรปิด เป็นระบบที่ช้ามายาวนานและแพร่หลาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นสถานที่สำคัญต่างๆ หรือที่ต้องการความปลอดภัยสูง เช่น ธนาคาร หรือห้างสรรพสินค้า เป็นต้น แต่ปัจจุบันระบบนี้ได้พัฒนามากว่าแต่ก่อนมาก อาทิ การบันทึกภาพในที่มืด หรือดูภาพผ่านทางอินเทอร์เน็ตได้

แต่ก็อย่างว่าแหละครับ ของดีก็มักจะต้องมีราคาแพงควบคู่กันไป ดังนั้น ในบทความนี้ผมจึงมีวิธีในการทำกล้องวงจรปิดอย่าง ง่ายที่สามารถดูออนไลน์ผ่านอินเทอร์เน็ตได้โดยการนำความสามารถของโปรแกรม Skye ที่เป็นโปรแกรมสำหรับโทรศัพท์ผ่านอินเทอร์เน็ตมาประยุกต์ใช้งานร่วมกับกล้อง เว็บแคม

ขั้นตอนแรกก็ต้องเริ่มจากไปดาวน์โหลดโปรแกรม Skye ที่ http://download.skype.com/SkypeSetup.exe หรือ http://www.skype.com/download/skype/winsows/ ขนาดไฟล์ 19 เมกะไบต์ (Freeware)

เมื่อดาว์นโหลดไฟล์ติดตั้งเรียบร้อยแล้ว ให้ติดตั้งโปรแกรม Skye ไว้ในเครื่องที่มีกล้องเว็บแคมอยู่ การติดตั้งก็ไม่ยาก อันดับแรกเลือกภาษาและคลิ้กเลือก Yes I have read and accept the คลิ้ก Install และคลิ้กที่ Next

เมื่อติดตั้งโปรแกรมเรียบร้อย โปรแกรมก็จะเปิดขึ้นมา จากนั้นก็จะมาสร้างบัญชีผู้ใช้งานก็ป้อนรายละเอียดให้ครบทุกช่าง ในช่อง Skye Name คุณสามารถตั้งชื่ออะไรก็ได้เป็นภาษาอังกฤษห้ามมีช่องว่าง แต่ก็ควรหาชื่อที่คิดว่าไม่ซ้ำกันกับคนอื่น จากนั้นก็คลิ้กที่ Next ป้อนอีเมล์และเลือกประเทศ กดคลิ้กที่ปุ่ม Sign In เพื่อเข้าระบบ

เมื่อเข้าโปรแกรมได้แล้วก็ต้องไปกำหนด Options ของโปรแกรมโดยเข้าไปที่เมนู Tool –> Options คลิ้กที่รายการ Privacy จากนั้นไปกำหนด Allow calls form เป็น only people from my Contacts เพื่อให้โปรแกรมตอบรับเฉพาะบัญชีที่อยู่รายการที่ได้เพิ่มไว้เท่านั้น (คนอื่นจะได้เข้ามาดูกล้องของเราไม่ได้)

จากนั้นเข้าไปที่รายการ video (BATA) คลิ้กเลือก Start my video automatically เพื่อทำให้เวลาที่เราเรียกเข้ามาแล้วให้แสดงวิดีโอโดยอัตโนมัติ

ต่อมากำหนดที่รายการ Advanced คลิ้กเลือก Automatically answer incoming calls เพื่อให้โปกรแกรมตอบรับอัตโนมัติเมื่อเราเรียกเข้ามา เสร็จเรียบร้อยแล้วอย่าลืมคลิ้ก Save และก็เปิดโปรแกรมออนไลน์ไว้ แต่อย่างเพิ่งปิดเครื่อง

จากนั้นให้โปรแกรม Skye ไปติดตั้งที่เครื่องอื่น (เครื่องที่จะเรียกยกเข้ามาดูวิดีโอ) และก็สร้างบัญชีผู้ใช้ใหม่ให้เรียบร้อย

ต่อมา Sign In เข้าโปรแกรม จากนั้นไปที่เมนู Contacts -> Add a Contact พิมพ์ชื่อ Skye Name ของเครื่องที่เราได้ติดตั้งเว็บแคมไว้ แล้วคลิ้กที่ปุ่ม Find รอสักครู่ก็จะเห็นรายการแสดงขึ้นมา จากนั้นให้หาชื่อที่ถูกต้อง

เมื่อเลือกรายชื่อได้แล้วให้คลิ้กปุ่ม Add Skye Contact ก็จะมีหน้าต่างให้เราส่งคำขอไปที่เครื่องที่เราได้ติดตั้งเว็บแคมไว้ ก็คลิ้ก OK ตอบรับได้เลย จากนั้นก็คลิ้กที่ปุ่ม Call (ปุ่มสีเขียว) หากมีข้อความว่า Only calls from Contacts accepted ก็แสดงว่าคุณยังไม่ได้เพิ่ม Contact ให้กับเครื่องที่เราติดตั้งเว็บแคม ก็กลับไปที่เครื่องจากนั้นก็ Add contact ที่เราสร้างใหม่เข้าไปในโปรแกรม

ให้ลองเรียกเข้าไปใหม่ ถ้าไม่มีปัญหาอะไรเราก็จะเป็นภาพและได้ยินเสียงจากเครื่องที่เราได้ติดตั้ง เว็บแคมไว้แสดงขึ้นมา ถ้าต้องการดูหน้าต่างใหญ่ขึ้นก็คลิ้กที่ Video In Window หรือถ้าต้องการภาพแบบเต็มจอก็คลิ้กที่ Full Screen Video

เมื่อได้ติดตั้งเรียบร้อยหมดแล้ว เครื่องที่คุณทำเป็นกล้องวงจรปิด ก็จำเป็นต้องเปิดเครื่องและเชื่อมต่อกับอินเทอร์เน็ตไว้ตลอดเวลาด้วย เราก็จะสามารถเรียกเข้ามาดูกล้องวงจรปิดของ เราได้จากทั่วโลกโดยใช้โปรแกรม Skye และต้องล็อกอินด้วย Skye Name ที่เราได้เพิ่มไว้ในรายการของเครื่องที่ติดตั้งกล้องเท่านั้นจึงจะสามารถ เข้ามาดูภาพจากกล้องได้

ความรู้เบื้องต้น CCTV: กล้องรับภาพ (CAMERA)

ความรู้เบื้องต้น CCTV

กล้องรับภาพ (CAMERA)

โดยทั่วไปแล้วจะถูกแบ่งง่ายๆ ออกเป็นสองชนิดคือ กล้องสี และกล้องขาวดำซึ่งขึ้นอยู่กับ ความต้องการ ของผู้ใช้และสถานที่ในการ ติดตั้งซึ่งต้องประกอบไปด้วย ลักษณะ ของการใช้งานจริง ยกตัวอย่างเช่น

กล้องสี ควรใช้งานกับสถานที่ที่มีแสงสม่ำเสมอ เช่น ซูปเปอร์มาเก็ต, มินิมาร์ท, ร้านทอง ฯลฯ เป็นต้น จากกลุ่มที่ยกตัวอย่างให้เห็นนั้นมีความ เหมาะสมกล่าวคือกล้องสีสามารถแยกแยะรายละเอียดหรือสีของสิ่งของ ได้ดี และในสถานที่ที่ยกตัวอย่างดังกล่าวก็มีการใช้แสงสว่างค่อนข้างมาก และสม่ำเสมอภาพที่มา ปรากฎบนหน้าจอมอนิเตอร์ ก็จะมีความชัดเจน

กล้องขาวดำ กล้องชนิดนี้เป็นกล้องที่ใช้แสงในการรับภาพต่ำมาก (LUX) เหมาะอย่างยิ่งที่จะใช้งานในด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยเนื่องจาก สามารถดูในเวลากลางคืนได้ ดีกว่ากล้องสีเหมาะสำหรับโรงงานอุตสาหกรรม เช่น ในอาคาร, คลังสินค้า, โรงงาน, กระบวนการผลิต, พื้นที่อันตราย, เคาเตอร์เก็บเงิน, ลานจอดรถ, ปั๊มน้ำมัน หรือสถานที่ที่ใช้อุปกรณ์ดูแลรักษาความปลอดภัย

หมายเหตุ ปัจจุบันกล้องโทรทัศน์วงจรปิดจะใช้แผงรับภาพแบบ CCD (CHARGE COUPLE DEVICE) ซึ่งเป็นอุปกรณ์เซมิคอนดัคเตอร์ประเภทหนึ่ง ในกล้องราคาถูกจะไม่มีหน่วยประมวลผลภาพ และหน่วยความจำ ซึ่งเรียกว่าส่วนประมวลผลภาพดิจิตอล (DSP : Didital Image Signal Processing) ซึ่งจะทำให้กล้องที่ไม่มีหน่วยประมวลผล DSP อยู่จะซีดจาง และความคมชัดลดลง เมื่อใช้งาน ผ่านไปช่วงหนึ่ง

 

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Access Control for Manufacturing Sites

A manufacturing facility is a changing environment in which the constant flow of goods, materials and people creates opportunities for and provides attractions to thieves. Access control systems are designed to allow access only to those with the necessary authorization.
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Electronic access control systems generally comprise three components: the physical barrier, the identification device, and the door controller and software. The identification device uses one or more of a number of different technologies, such as a proximity card and reader using RFID; a smart card and reader; a swipe card and reader; PIN pads; or a biometric solution. The door controller and software are at the heart of the system and are used to decide who can gain access through which access point at what time of the day. These can vary depending on the size of the system and on how many readers or sites one is trying to control from one point. Some of the options include a stand-alone door controller linked to a single door with no software; a number of door controllers all linked together to a single PC to control one site; or a number of sites all interlinked together over a wide-area network (WAN).
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Within a manufacturing setting which sees large numbers of people entering and leaving the building at particular shifts, time and attendance systems using badge/token technology can be used to record employee hours. These can be processed against shift patterns and working rules in real time to feed transactions through to the company’s payroll. Fast, accurate and easy-to-use time and attendance systems also help keep employers on the right side of the European Working Time regulations, and help them plan holidays, absences and manpower rosters. Hardware links can also be connected to a fire alarm panel to produce an automatic fire roll call report.
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To monitor the entrance of vehicles, surveillance cameras can be used to identify license plates of vehicles. Some systems can also store photographs of the driver and vehicle for subsequent analysis. Automated number plate recognition software allows critical information to be passed onto the police to assist in the pursuit, identification and capture of offenders. Visual proof of parking offences with the corresponding time and date information is provided as evidence and to avoid disputes.
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With a range of valuable assets being kept on site, asset tagging can prove beneficial. Asset tags are used to identify, locate and track physical assets and discourage fraud within a business at specific points or within broad coverage zones. Tag identification and location information is instantly forwarded over a network to a host computer running the software to provide real-time management solutions via powerful reporting, display, and decision and control functions. Alert signals can also be tied into existing alarm, access control and surveillance systems. Linked assets and people can be tracked and located within close proximity, thus providing an automatic, non-invasive asset protection solution while enabling freedom of movement.
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The outcome of a risk assessment for a manufacturing site will determine the level of security required, and in turn influence one’s choice of access control system to be used. BSIA access control members and the Association’s professional security consultancies can assist with this. In the United Kingdom, BSIA members go through rigorous checks before they are admitted into membership, meaning only quality companies are selected. BSIA members are independently inspected to the quality standard ISO 9001:2000 with a UKAS-accredited (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) inspectorate; are compliant with relevant British Standards and Codes of Practice; are financially sound and professional; conduct staff vetting where appropriate; are technically proficient; are committed to quality training and development; and are up-to-date with the latest developments in British and European policy and legislation.
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Lastly, be aware of relevant legislation. In Britain, for example, the Disability Discrimination Act was amended in 2005 and has significant impact not only in terms of the design of new systems, but also means that many systems may need to be upgraded to ensure compliance. The BSIA has created a guide to help design access control systems following the introduction of the revisions.
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Surviving the Storm

Continuous R&D was the one thing that most of the exhibitors at SecuTech Expo 2009, ISC West and IFSEC could agree on and requires unwavering support. Axis Communications, for example, has planned to release 30 new models this year along, while many Asian manufacturers have targeted the second half of this year for full IP releases. And with more people becoming more resource-conscious, continuous R&D ensures that solutions like video analytics and management software continue to improve in accuracy and openness. This game-changing economic downturn came at a critical juncture in the evolution of electronic security. It remains to be seen what the rise of Asia will bring and who will be left standing at the end of this race to strike a balance between price and performance.

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New Methods Enhance Sunell's Manufacturing Efficiency

A product's success relies on stable quality, and manufacturing is the key to providing stable quality. In a previous article in A&S China Best Buys, we presented a general picture of how Sunell plans to refine its manufacturing procedure. In this issue, A&S China Best Buys unveils how far the company has come to achieve its goal.
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A happy working environment is essential to a manufacturing base and to acknowledge its understanding of this belief, every employee at Sunell has a smiley faced pin on his or her uniform. Gary Du, Vice Director of Manufacturing Center at Sunell, organized this event. Through the event, Du emphasized how a happy working environment can increase staff's efficiency. “There are plenty of measures to increase people's efficiency,” said Du. “This is merely for the people's mentality. Right now, I am conducting many other reformations.”
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Since the closure of 2007, Sunell adopted several approaches to reform its manufacturing management, such as 5S, production lines reform and 3T management. Taking 3T for example — Total Quality Management, Total Productive Maintenance and Toyota Production System — the company has well established the first phase and is now moving toward the second. Du pointed out that it still requires two years to fully complete the 3T management. “Afterwards, we have plans to relocate the company's resources for other purposes,” Du said.
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However, change comes with resistance. Though the company has adopted these new management approaches, they were difficult to implement at the beginning, especially in manufacturing center. “The most crucial is talent and training makes people to be a talent. Training is perhaps the most important challenge to overcome,“ said Du. “In order to meet different markets' requirements, our staffs, hence, have to be capable of working independently. Therefore, we will establish skill improvement workshop (SIW) to keep our staffs staying ahead.“
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"At the beginning, rather than lecturing them about the method's theories, I showed our employees how these new methods can help them become more efficient workers,” Du explained. “This is the only way to make them believe that you are helping.” At the manufacturing front, the company started to abandon the traditional production line in order to facilitate the production procedure. “The Cell- and Uline production have been customized for Sunell,” said Du. “The company offers a wide range of surveillance products. Therefore, we need to enhance our manufacturing capacity and efficiency.”
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The new production line has proved its success, with higher efficiency and more product capacity. Du compared previous statistics with current ones, after production reformation was adopted. The results showed that overall efficiency increased from 45 percent to 80 percent.
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Quality Assurance


Du plans to bring Sunell to another stage. Most video surveillance manufacturers in China still use physical testing via staff's eyesight in regards to image resolution, S/N ratio and distortion. With only a basic resolution chart and testers' experience however, a product's quality cannot be guaranteed one hundred percent. Du plans to introduce software based testing for products.
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"I have purchased a capture card from an US-based company,” Du said. “After capturing the image, the software analyzes the image, turns i t into f igures and processes it with specific software to examine resolution, S/N ratio and so on more precisely. This solution has a long way to go but I would say that it yields much opportunity in China.”
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Moreover, Sunell has a strict quality control procedure. There are several tests involved in the various stages of the production line. From the initial PCB boards, to the finished products, to packaging, Sunell conducts process quality control (IPQC), housing testing, aging testing, out quality control (OQC) and open box audit (OBA). With these quality control measures, Du is proud to say that Sunell's product performance can meet or even exceed customers' requirements.
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In today's recession period, buyers are becoming ever more critical about quality. Sunell's new method of manufacturing and management has only one goal — to provide the market stable and quality products.

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Fine-Tuning Traffic

To run safe and efficient cities on a daily basis, traffic control systems and operators must be in tune with public surveillance systems and first responders to gather and share information.
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We see city surveillance projects in Asia revolving around traffic monitoring and road safety. In China especially, video surveillance solutions for safety and requirements are accommodating for growing traffic,” said Peter McKee, Global Marketing Director of Mobotix. While Asia might be a chief purveyor of traffic monitoring, cities elsewhere in the world in the United States, Latin America and Europe are seeing public surveillance tied to traffic monitoring systems. Keeping track of highways and junctions, import and export of goods and daily movement of people going to and from work or leisure are all part of helping society run smoothly, said Lars Thinggaard, CEO of Milestone Systems, and IP video surveillance is the monitoring tool that helps do the job better.
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With 360 degree view cameras and intelligent analytics like license plate recognition, tracking, identifying traffic density and motion detection, the capabilities of traffic monitoring stretch far and wide. Integrated with city surveillance, first responders can strengthen their practice, catching perpetrators and tracking their vehicle's movements.
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Junction Monitoring
Multigated junctions, with several entry and exit points see accidents, collisions, fights and eventually law suits as frequent occurrences. It is therefore essential for junctions to be properly monitored.
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Small and light megapixel cameras can be mounted on a pole, wall or harness to give operators a 360 degree view to monitor cars; with license plate recognition, cameras effectively record plates and the system can even recognize, through quick database searches, if cars in the junction have unpaid tickets, said McKee. License plate recognition systems integrated with public surveillance systems are more likely to catch a stolen car via recognition of its license plate.
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Using event management metadata, cameras positioned high above large junctions can track and classify types of vehicle (bus, bicycle, van, car), and monitor their average speed and direction of travel. This information can be used to do a number of useful things; traffic monitoring authorities can model the data to redesign a better junction, or alter traffic signals to reduce flow, said Michael Wilks, CEO of Scyron.
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Highway Surveillance
For safer traffic management on highways, behavioral analytics can notify traffic managers when traffic is heaviest. “You want to maximize the effectiveness of high occupancy vehicle lanes so you can make sure these and any extra lanes are open to traffic at times they're most needed,” said Ed Troha, MD of Global Marketing, ObjectVideo.
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Traffic surveillance extended to highways also pushes people to abide by speed limits; “people act differently when they think they are being monitored and it is often impractical and sometimes dangerous to put officers on site for these types of traffic violations,” Lee Caswell, Cofounder and CMO of Pivot3.

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H.264 Facts and Fiction

It seems everyone in the security industry is talking about the use of the H.264 compression standard for digital video, which produces high-quality video using less bandwidth than the commonly used JPEG compression. But how does H.264 differ from JPEG, and are the proposed benefits of H.264 compression too good to be true? Are there any hidden costs to using H.264 in security applications? Let us focus on the basics of the H.264 compression technology to separate facts from fiction and dispel a few myths and misconceptions.


H.264 and JPEG: How They Are Alike
H.264 and JPEG are two closely related standards: computationally they belong to the same family of compression methods. Both use similar or identical techniques to compress the video, such as transforming the video signal into frequency domain, applying quantization to the frequency-transformed signal, using variable length coding, and many other similar or identical techniques. Because the compression methods are similar, the distortion introduced into the video in the process of compression is also similar. The degree of video distortion is proportional to the degree of compression: both standards support a wide range of compression levels and, accordingly, a wide range of achievable video quality (the inverse of video distortion).


There are many metrics of video quality, some objective and some subjective. Using any measure, one can precisely demonstrate that when the compression parameters of the two standards are matched, the video quality of the same scene under like conditions is indistinguishable across a wide range of settings, with the possible exception of the extreme high-compression limit. In particular, this is easy to demonstrate using Arecont Vision's megapixel IP cameras that feature instant switching of the on-camera encoder between JPEG and H.264. In fact, if video quality was the only measure for choosing one compression standard over another it would be very difficult to make the choice.

So, if the video quality of the two standards is very much alike, then how are they different?


H.264 and JPEG: How They Are Different
The main difference between H.264 and JPEG is the consumed bandwidth per given video quality — H.264 offers a major reduction in bandwidth relative to JPEG.  Bandwidth reduction translates to a major reduction in cost of security installations: the requirements for networking equipment and disk storage are accordingly reduced.


Reduction of bandwidth is achieved at the cost of high computational complexity of the H.264 encoder. Put simply, the more computation there is, the more efficiently the data is organized and “packed.” Decoding the compressed video stream is an entirely different matter, the H.264 standard is asymmetrical: all of its computational complexity is on the encoder side while the H.264 decoder is similar in complexity to a JPEG decoder. Arecont Vision's megapixel IP cameras use a patent-pending massively parallel H.264 hardware encoder that achieves 80 billion operations per second. The high computational capacity is needed to process a large number of computational add-ons used in H.264 relative to JPEG, some of which were introduced in the earlier standards of the MPEG family to which H.264 belongs. A major departure from JPEG is that instead of encoding the video signal itself, only the inter-frame signal differences are encoded. The smaller the difference, the more economically it can be encoded into the video stream. There are two sources of inter-frame signal differences: motion in the scene and random noise.


Noise is always present, and it is notoriously difficult to compress due to its random nature. High levels of noise are typically caused by low-light conditions — they require larger bandwidth and larger disk storage space to archive.


Signal differences due to motion are much easier to compress — the majority of computational effort is typically concentrated in estimating motion. The goal of motion estimation is to locate blocks of pixels in the current video frame that closely match blocks of pixels in the previous frame corresponding to the portions of the scene that may have moved during the interval between frames. Because the direction and the distance of such movement are unknown in advance, the motion estimator must search over hundreds of possible positions to find the best match. The closer the match, the smaller is the signal difference to be encoded, and accordingly the smaller is the resultant video stream. Computational power of the motion estimator often determines the quality of the entire H.264 encoder: the larger the search area, the higher is the chance to find the best possible match. While many motion estimators conduct only an approximate non-exhaustive search to reduce the amount of computation, Arecont Vision's motion estimator conducts an exhaustive search over a large search area to find the best possible match.


Motion estimation and other computational components of H.264 compression explain its amazing ability to compress video into a low-bandwidth stream while maintaining high video quality. It is also the reason why H.264 is being embraced by broadcast television, by distributors of movies on DVD, and by many other industries including the professional security and surveillance market.
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H.264 Has No Hidden Cost
A common myth about H.264 is its so-called “hidden cost”, an erroneous belief that because the computational complexity of the H.264 encoder is very high, the required decoder resources must be high as well, many times higher than required for JPEG. The “hidden cost”, as the theory goes, is in the additional computer server power needed to decompress multiple H.264 video streams in a multi-camera security installation in order to display live video from multiple cameras. This “hidden cost” is alleged to be especially high for megapixel cameras.

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In reality, the exact opposite is true: H.264 streams encoded by Arecont Vision cameras require less computational power to decompress than JPEG streams, a fact that has been demonstrated on brand-name and open-source H.264 software decoders, such as Intel IPP and FFMPEG used by all major NVR manufacturers.
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In order to understand how this is achieved, consider that the H.264 compression standard consists of a large number of optional encoder components, each targeting its own facet of compression. Each of these optional components is capable of improving the compression by a certain amount, but every increment of improvement comes with a computational cost attached. The computational cost is incurred mainly on the encoder side, but may affect the decoder side as well, in varying degrees. Some of these components have better cost-to-effect ratio than others. By carefully choosing the subset of optional encoder components, Arecont Vision has optimized its encoder to avoid the increase in computational load on the decoder side compared to JPEG decoder. At the same time, the H.264 video stream remains fully compliant with the standard and compatible with all compliant H.264 decoders.

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As an example of computational load reduction in the decoder, consider the major computational component of the encoder — its motion estimator. According to the H.264 standard, motion estimation could be conducted at up to quarter-pixel resolution. This means that if the encoder found the best match “in-between” the original pixels, the decoder (software running on the server) has to interpolate all the intermediate pixel values and generate 16 times more pixels than there are in the original image. This operation alone would raise the computational load of the H.264 decoder way beyond the JPEG decoder level. The question is: How much benefit does it provide in terms of bandwidth reduction? In sub-megapixel low-resolution cameras, such as D1 format, this might be a valuable technique — there are relatively few pixels per foot of the scene, and accordingly the quarter-pixel precision of motion estimation makes a difference when motion is involved. However, when you consider a 5-megapixel camera, the number of pixels per foot is roughly 14 times higher than in D1 given identical optics and sensor size. It makes little sense to conduct quarter-pixel resolution search on top of the high resolution provided by the sensor itself. By avoiding the unnecessary computation both in the encoder and the decoder, Arecont Vision's cameras achieve lower cost on the camera side and maintain low computational load on the server side. Motion estimation is one example of a multitude of such strategies implemented in Arecont Vision's megapixel cameras.
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The Defacto Compression Standard
The benefits of H.264 in terms of bandwidth utilization per given video quality and the related reduction of disk storage are obvious, the incremental costs are low, and there are no “hidden” installation costs. It is safe to predict that H.264 will become the defacto compression standard for the security and surveillance market, especially for megapixel IP cameras where the benefits are even further multiplied. In fact, H.264 could be viewed as the silver bullet that has removed the earlier obstacles to mass penetration of megapixel IP cameras into the marketplace.

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Texas Instruments Demonstrates Eight Channels of H.264 Main Profile Encoding at D1 Resolution on a Single Processor

Developers benefit from lower cost per channel, system savings and simplified hardware design for NVRs, DVSs and DVRs.


Texas Instruments (TI) demonstrates eight channels of H.264 main profile encoding at D1 resolution (720 x 480 progressive at 30 frames per second (fps)) on a single processor solution. By offering this capability on a single processor, rather than current design solutions that require two or more processors, developers can reduce their bill of materials (BOM) costs. This will significantly lower the cost per D1 channel and developers can utilize a less complex hardware design to create smaller security system components such as digital video recorders (DVR) and digital video servers (DVS). This single processor offering also provides legacy codec support of MPEG-4 and JPEG encode and decode at the same density.


Developers can also combine this single processor with two of TI's new TVP5158 devices. The TVP5158 is a four-channel video decoder with flexible video outputs that removes the need for an external mux FPGA in applications requiring multiple channels, thus reducing system cost by several dollars. Additionally, a single processor solution requires less external memory and board space, providing further system savings. Developers can now benefit from these cost efficiencies and improved design flexibility for video surveillance applications such as network video recorders (NVR), DVSs, DVRs, hybrid DVRs and high-definition cameras for video conferencing.

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Great Outdoor Shootout Takes Stock of Detectors

A&S partnered with Australian remote monitoring service provider VideoControlRoom to test outdoor detectors. Michael Brown, MD of VideoControlRoom, discussed how the solutions that aim to eliminate false alarms while reliably detecting intruders fared in real life.


As VideoControlRoom moves toward “bill per event” services, it is important to prove to customers that we understand and use “world’s best practice” outdoor detection. Therefore, we decided to partner with A&S, the only trade publication with the reputation and global reach to engage the manufacturing community, and share the results for the betterment of the industry. The invitation was open to all manufacturers, and the only entry criterion was a willingness to have their products openly tested against peers.

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China's Security Market Grows Dramatically

In 2008, China's security equipment manufacturing market turned from the chaotic phase to the orderly phase, which was attributable to market competition and improvement of market order on the one hand, and to the efforts made by strong players at independent innovation and brand building on the other hand. At the same time, Olympic economy added fuel to China's intelligent building industry. At present, the security industry is evolving towards energy conservation, environmental friendliness, networking, intelligent technology, system and alliances. Enterprises are generally striving to grow in size and strength and roll out branded products.


Video monitoring remains a hot market segment. "All-in-one card" is very popular. The real estate market and community security give a notable impetus to sales of building intercom and alarm systems. With the rapid development of the integration of access control and other security systems, security products' application fields are extending.


In the face of competitions as well as market changes and challenges, the 2008-2009 Annual Report on China's Intelligent Building Market released by us will help enterprises, investors and industry insiders grasp more accurately laws governing the market's development and comb the development track of application value.

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TeleEye and T-Com Collaborate to Launch Complete Remote Video Surveillance Solution

TeleEye Group has always been providing professional and efficient remote video monitoring services to users. TeleEye Hrvatska and T-Com Croatia collaborate to offer a complete and reliable solution in remote video surveillance for companies in Croatia.


T-Com Croatia as provider of telecommunication services, provides telephony, data transmission, broadband, IPTV and communication services. It shares a common goal with the TeleEye Group, which is offering complete, simple and high quality IP video surveillance solution to customers. Powered by T-Com MAXadsl Internet broadband service, TeleEye brings users reliable and trustworthy video of remote business operations.


The Remote Video Surveillance Solution includes TeleEye CX784 video recording server, and TeleEye DF103 color fixed dome. Incorporated with proprietary SMAC-M multi-stream coder technology, TeleEye CX Series records 29% longer and transmits 80% faster than H.264 systems.


Collaborating with T-Com Internet broadband service, MAXadsl, users can enjoy fast video monitoring experience. Other breathtaking features include multi-user access, telemetry control, schedule, alarm, motion detection and remote recording.

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Toshiba NVR Brings Versatility, Quality and Value to Megapixel Camera Recording

Toshiba Surveillance & IP Network Video, a business unit of Toshiba America Information Systems, announced the availability of its next generation of Internet-based NVR. With a feature-set highlighted by a space-saving 3U chassis and support for 32 network cameras, the new Toshiba IPS Series makes it amazingly simple to create a networked video surveillance environment by delivering the ease-of-use and reliability.


Toshiba IPS Series NVRs are fully compatible with Toshiba network cameras and third-party solutions. Cameras are recorded at their encoded resolution, including super high-resolution megapixel cameras, without degradation in video quality. On-board software provides security administrators with simultaneous recording, playback and remote streaming of live video images retrievable on their remote or local PC, along with comprehensive search capabilities of archives. Microsoft Windows XP is embedded as the operating system.


To save space for other critical peripherals Toshiba IPS Series NVRs feature a black 3U chassis that mounts into any standard rack. In addition to a 32-channel version, IPR Series NVRs are available in 16- and 8-channel versions with optional 500 GB, 1TB or 2TB hard-drive storage. Equipped with the Intel Core 2 Quad 2 GHz processor, IPS NVRs handle multiple megapixel cameras simultaneously, enabling the crystal-clear recording of these bandwidth-demanding devices.

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VIVOTEK Enhances Australia's Gallery Security

National Gallery of Australia (NGA), home to numerous exquisite and valuable artworks, is a thrilling work of art with subtle exterior and delicate interior design. Initially, a CCTV system was employed to protect gallery assets, but monitoring of the gigantic gallery remained difficult and inefficient. Because the interior of the gallery is frequently changed to accommodate a variety of exhibitions, the CCTV cameras must be redeployed every now and then. Due to cabling, the redeployment is time-consuming and labor-intensive, causing great pain to NGA. Due to the importance of maintaining the structural integrity of the building, NGA needs a solution that can fit in with the decor so as to achieve a balance of good visitor experience and maintain high security levels.


NGA wanted to replace the CCTV system with a flexible system that allows them to add or relocate cameras easily, and capable of providing high image quality for investigative purposes. The system should be able to blend into the interior design and the structure of the building. Zylotech, VIVOTEK's distributor in Australia helped NGA install VIVOTEK's network cameras.


To blend in with the decor, VIVOTEK SD6122s with their dome design were selected. The SD6122s' 10x zoom capability can provide close-up images of minute objects, allowing the operator to identify visitors with ease. Wrapped inside a vandal-proof housing, the SD6122s are firmly protected from burglars' damage.


Some of the SD6122s were added a weather-proof housing for installing outside the building, in the landscaped garden and the parking lots. The housings shield the cameras from rain and dust, enabling them to operate in extreme weather conditions. The SD6122s offer wide pan/tilt movement with continuous 720-degrees pan and 110-degrees tilt, making them suitable for monitoring wide open outdoor spaces.


The new installation solved the cabling problem of the CCTV system for NGA, significantly enhancing their system scalability. The manager can search, record or manage data in a more straightforward way and needs not worry about image quality degradation any more. Good image quality enables manager to make things out easily. Furthermore, the dome design of SD6122s perfectly matches the decor of the building, ensuring visitors best gallery experiences in maximum security.


"With this upgrade we have gone from the Stone Age to a state-of-the-art digital surveillance system and that's what this site should have given the value of what we're protecting.” said O'Sullivan, Manager for security at NGA.

Sony Professional Enhances Channel Support

Sony Professional reinforced its commitment to its reseller community through the expansion of its partner program. Sony believes that working more closely with its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community will encourage innovation in the security market and the uptake of new products, enabling partners to grow their businesses more effectively.


To date the support scheme has encouraged greater uptake of new security solutions, such as the H.264 codec and Intelligent Video Analysis, which in turn has had a significant impact on the expansion of IP technology. Sony’s Security Solution Portal Site provides technical information including Software Development Kit (SDK), live demonstrations and promotional materials to help its partners’ trial and implement new Sony technology. For example, Sony pioneered the adoption of H.264 compression in the security industry through the release of the first H.264 compatible security cameras line-up in 2006. It now boasts a line-up of eight H.264 compatible cameras and a group of ISVs in Europe that support the codec, or plan to by May 2009. As Wolfgang Baumgartner, CEO, NETAVIS Software said, “NETAVIS system integrators have chosen to use Sony H.264 cameras not only because of quality they offer but because Sony supports H.264 in PTZ cameras.”


Sony is also helping ISVs to realize the full benefits of Intelligent Video Analysis technology. One of the first manufacturers to embed intelligent video analysis technology into its cameras, Sony’s real-time Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) allows users to process content directly after image capture. Users also benefit from intelligent motion detection that helps to reduce false alarms, resulting in improved security and reduced costs. “Sony’s advanced security technology enables us to offer users autonomous, simple and powerful management of video analysis. Moreover, the standardization across the complete Sony range gives all Sony camera users access to the technology regardless of the size of their investment,” said José Savoye, CEO, VISEOX.


"We are also working with our ISVs to incorporate DEPA support into other video management software offerings on the market,” said Yu Kitamura, EMEA Product Manager, Video Security, Sony Professional. “Sony is committed to enabling new customers to benefit from product innovation in the security market. We continue to work closely with ISVs to encourage accessibility and adoption.”

Sony Professional Enhances Channel Support

Sony Professional reinforced its commitment to its reseller community through the expansion of its partner program. Sony believes that working more closely with its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community will encourage innovation in the security market and the uptake of new products, enabling partners to grow their businesses more effectively.


To date the support scheme has encouraged greater uptake of new security solutions, such as the H.264 codec and Intelligent Video Analysis, which in turn has had a significant impact on the expansion of IP technology. Sony’s Security Solution Portal Site provides technical information including Software Development Kit (SDK), live demonstrations and promotional materials to help its partners’ trial and implement new Sony technology. For example, Sony pioneered the adoption of H.264 compression in the security industry through the release of the first H.264 compatible security cameras line-up in 2006. It now boasts a line-up of eight H.264 compatible cameras and a group of ISVs in Europe that support the codec, or plan to by May 2009. As Wolfgang Baumgartner, CEO, NETAVIS Software said, “NETAVIS system integrators have chosen to use Sony H.264 cameras not only because of quality they offer but because Sony supports H.264 in PTZ cameras.”


Sony is also helping ISVs to realize the full benefits of Intelligent Video Analysis technology. One of the first manufacturers to embed intelligent video analysis technology into its cameras, Sony’s real-time Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) allows users to process content directly after image capture. Users also benefit from intelligent motion detection that helps to reduce false alarms, resulting in improved security and reduced costs. “Sony’s advanced security technology enables us to offer users autonomous, simple and powerful management of video analysis. Moreover, the standardization across the complete Sony range gives all Sony camera users access to the technology regardless of the size of their investment,” said José Savoye, CEO, VISEOX.


"We are also working with our ISVs to incorporate DEPA support into other video management software offerings on the market,” said Yu Kitamura, EMEA Product Manager, Video Security, Sony Professional. “Sony is committed to enabling new customers to benefit from product innovation in the security market. We continue to work closely with ISVs to encourage accessibility and adoption.”