Kodak NVR Becomes Focus of Shanghai Security

As technology becomes more mature and product costs continue to decline, IP high-definition surveillance is increasingly expanding from the early large-scale industrial markets to general-purpose and commercial markets. High-definition surveillance has gradually entered the stage of universal adoption.

Unlike large-scale industries, general-purpose industrial markets and commercial markets, users are more concerned with the cost performance of basic monitoring applications and the products themselves. Such changes have led to the shift of high-definition monitoring from the large-scale industrial market to the general-purpose industrial and commercial markets. The center of the product has gradually shifted from the platform to the NVR. The more popular the high-definition monitoring, the more important the NVR.

In Shanghai where new landmarks have been released, NVR will no doubt become the protagonist of the Shanghai HD surveillance market.

At the 8th Global Digital Monitoring Development Forum (GDSF), Kodak made in-depth exchanges with the audience on the above trends. In response to the impact of the launch of the Shanghai digital surveillance new landmark, Kodak proposed: NVR will undoubtedly be a universal HD surveillance. The protagonist of the market, for Shanghai's engineers, integrators, only actively concerned about NVR technology, products and related brands, rapid transition to digital surveillance in order to meet the new challenges of digital security.

Kodak recently released new SAFE series NVR also coincides with the new landmark in Shanghai. This series of products not only satisfies the new landmark requirements of Shanghai, but also reflects the next technological development trend of NVR and high-definition monitoring.

The first is openness. With the rapid popularity of high-definition network cameras and the increasing number of camera manufacturers, the compatibility of different brands of high-definition network cameras will become one of the most important characteristics of NVR in the general market. The emergence of the Onvif standard has played a very significant role in promoting the openness of the NVR. Kodak NVR is currently able to access more than 500 network camera products from more than 30 mainstream brands through Onvif, which is currently the most compatible NVR in third-party cameras in China. Unlike other manufacturers' NVR compatibility, which only differs from basic video access and browsing, Kodak NVR can also provide third-party brand cameras with deep-level applications such as alarm parameter setting, video parameter adjustment, 3D fixed focus, and remote upgrade.

The second trend is the development of smart applications. Take NVR video search as an example here. Retrieval of stored videos is one of the most basic functions of the NVR. In the past, tracing incidents through video playback was a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. It was easy to get tired of staring at the screen for a long time. If you use fast-forward operations, it is easy to miss important information. Using human-sea tactics to find videos is often seen by everyone. Scene. The Kodak NVR integrates advanced intelligent analysis and retrieval technology. The video carries an event tag. When playing back video, it can use the event tag to quickly search, find the target video, and present it to the user in the form of a timeline.

The third trend is higher storage reliability. In the past, people would think NVRs had no reliable DVRs in video storage. In fact, as more and more storage reliability technologies such as ANR technology, N+1 backup technology, and hard disk rotation technology are applied in NVRs, NVRs have already Can provide more reliable video storage performance than DVR.

The fourth trend is ease of use. Easy to use is very important for the general monitoring market. In recent years, NVR has made great innovations in ease of use. Second-stage playback, visual disk control, floating menu bar, video window drag and drop, floating device list, etc., each feature has been simplified. The user's operation makes the user more convenient to use, all operations can be completed by the left mouse button, there is no progressive menu, convenient and simple, at one go.

The fifth trend is more efficient HD video coding technology. HD monitoring usually requires more storage space, and NVR storage costs are high. Nowadays, H.264 High Profile technology is applied more and more widely. The technology can achieve 30fps 720p HD effect in 1M bandwidth and 30fps 1080p HD performance in 2M, using traditional coding standards. Compared with HD cameras, the average bandwidth can save 30%-40% of the encoding bandwidth, which can significantly reduce the network transmission costs and video storage costs for users deploying high-definition monitoring.

The sixth trend is the construction of low-cost monitoring centers. Many users have the need to build monitoring centers when deploying monitoring systems. When it comes to monitoring centers, everyone's impressions are more complicated. KODAK SAFE Series HD NVR supports one-machine three-screen function. It requires only one computer to quickly build a low-cost three-screen display monitoring center to display hierarchical electronic maps, panoramic monitoring images, multi-screen monitoring images or video playback. In the image, users can associate three screens at the same time. This kind of monitoring center not only has the lowest deployment cost, but also has a very intuitive and convenient operation.

The seventh trend is to simplify the platform features. The NVR's simplified platform features call streams across NVRs. Utilizing this feature, in a system with multiple NVRs, users do not need to reconfigure the platform, and they can also achieve unified management of monitor streams and video wall decoding display through the coordination of these NVRs. Even in some occasions where the video wall is not demanding, users can directly use the local decoding of each NVR to compose a virtual video wall decoder and implement video wall management through the client without using a video wall decoder. This feature can effectively save users' deployment costs. The eighth trend is application expansion. With the proliferation of NVRs, the development of various applications based on NVRs will become an inevitable trend. Kodak NVR provides an open interface that enables rich application expansion such as visual control, intelligent tracking, and comprehensive security.

Under the background of network, high-definition and intelligence, driven by a series of new technologies, NVR will achieve more rapid development. This is especially true for Shanghai Security. The new landmark will undoubtedly promote the full popularization of NVR in Shanghai security market.