From Veracity, Direct-to-Disk Video Storage

Veracity USA, Inc. will be promoting the benefits of Trinity and its simplified system architecture which records IP video directly from camera to Coldstore, a surveillance storage system, specifically designed for video surveillance.

Coldstore

The demonstration in the North American Pavilion at ISNR 2016 at The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, 15-17 March 2016 will showcase an increasing number of vendors that allow third-party software applications to be run inside their IP cameras. Examples include models from Samsung Techwin, Axis Communications, Inc., Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. , AMG Panogenics, ISD, and UDP with other manufacturers rapidly following suit.

These ‘open platform’ cameras are generally aimed at supporting video analytics applications but are, with the right software, capable of much more. The company has developed dedicated software for such cameras which writes video, audio and meta-data directly to a HDD array. This ‘direct-to-disk’ concept completely removes the need for NVR servers resulting in substantial savings on server hardware and NVR software licences whilst simultaneously reducing system complexity and increasing system resilience.

Coldstore Compact

“The front-end client system can be anything from a simple PC playback system to a full-blown, broadly-integrated PSIM operator workstation” says James Ritchie, EMEA manager, business development, Veracity. “We call this simple system architecture Trinity, and it’s an ideal solution for unmonitored or remote access systems. The storing of this video data is uniquely managed by Coldstore, solving one of the great misconceptions that IT storage solutions are equally suitable for IP Video storage – they’re critically different, and I’ll be explaining how this should be taken into consideration when choosing a CCTV storage solution in my presentation “Critical differences between IT Data and Video Data” at the ISNR Innovation Podium, 2.30pm on the 16th March.“

Typical view of Trinity Player
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Trinity is made possible by the combination of firm’s advanced camera code and the Coldstore surveillance storage system, specifically designed for video surveillance. The lifetime cost of system ownership is further reduced, thanks to the increased disk reliability of Coldstore by a factor of 20, and it’s very low power consumption at 0.5W per terabyte.

Trinity recordings can be played back by firm’s own Viewpoint Player utility or by any third-party PSIM or VMS front-end system which incorporates the simple Trinity Media SDK. Example PSIMs which are integrated with Trinity include ISM, Meyertech, Visual Management Systems, i-Comply and Synectics.

The result is a simplified, serverless, robust, scalable and cost-effective video management system with features such as camera-level fail-over, optional dual-stream or redundant recording, resilience to network interruptions via internal camera recording, and all the existing benefits of the Coldstore surveillance storage system.