Do you have an Internet connection in your home? Is your office computer connected to the company LAN, or to a corporate-wide VPN? Do students at the schools and universities in your community have access to the world wide web? If you answered no to just one of these questions, then you must be from Mars! Our networked world not only seems smaller than it was just 10 years ago, but enterprises, organizations, and individuals can use network technology to reap the benefits of efficiency, cost-savings, and remote access. Video surveillance systems have been in use for many years as a major component of high tech security systems. Due to the prevalence of Ethernet and the Internet, it only seems natural to connect surveillance cameras to a LAN, and then configure and monitor the cameras from a network host. MOXA offers customers an affordable solution for connecting analog surveillance cameras to form an advanced video networking system.
MOXA Distributed Video Networking Solution
Moxa's distributed video networking solution provides users with many useful benefits:
- Access anywhere, anytime
Networked systems give you the ability to access, control, and monitor your devices from any networked host, any time of the day or night. - Reduced cabling cost
Since many areas of the world are already networked, you can make use of existing entry points to the network to connect your surveillance equipment, and avoid the cost of hiring an electrician to install new wiring. - More versatility
Networked systems make the system administrator's job easier and more convenient. Regular maintenance tasks, the occasional repair or reconfiguration, and upgrades to surveillance equipment will take less time and effort. - High scalability
Easily expand your system by adding cameras, application servers, storage servers, or other devices to your surveillance system. - Complete digitization
Even though your surveillance system uses analog cameras, the video images are digitized before being transmitted over the network. Digitized images are easy to edit, store, and then retransmit when needed. - Easy integration
Since your distributed video networking solution works over an IP-based network, integrating your system with other surveillance systems, and even with other applications, is easy and straightforward.
Video capture with VPort
Moxa provides three video-over-Ethernet products that can be used as part of a modern, high tech, distributed video networking system. The VPort series of video servers come with the following features:
- Reliable Compression Technology
VPort adopts the most mature/efficient compression technology—Motion JPEG/MPEG4—which is the standard IP surveillance system in use today, and the one with the best performance for total cost of ownership. - Instant and Stable Digitization Operation
With the help of an industrially-enhanced RTOS and powerful DSP, Moxa VPort video servers provide a quicker, extremely stable digitization operation. - Full Video Image Operability
MOXA VPort video servers have a built-in, user-friendly web server for capturing video, and operating the PTZ control of cameras. In addition, MOXA SofgDVR? IP Surveillance Software provides a more intelligent and easy-to-use GUI for advanced functions, such as Video Motion Detection (VMD) and I/O sensor and alarm control.
Record & Manage, with MOXA SoftDVR? IP Surveillance Software
MOXA provides users with two software options. SoftDVR? Lite (bundled free with Moxa's video servers) and SoftDVR? Pro. The SoftDVR? option gives you:
- Client/Server-based network system
MOXA SoftDVR? IP Surveillance Software is designed for distributed video surveillance systems. SoftDVR's Client/Server-based network infrastructure makes it easy to use and easy to integrate with other security systems, such as I/O sensors and alarms, over an Ethernet network or the Internet. - Realistic viewing and full recording system
Users get realistic viewing and full recording functions from MOXA SoftDVR? IP Surveillance Software. Area-selectable video motion detection, event monitoring, sequential recording, and historical video playback, are just a few of the functions that make this possible. In addition, you can use a storage server, such as PC, NAS, RAID, etc., to store your video images. You can manage the storage space manually, or let the system delete the oldest video images automatically to free up storage space when the hard drive is full.
Remote Access
View from any popular web browser—Both VPort Series Video Servers, and SoftDVR? IP Surveillance Software (Pro version) are provided with remote accessibility via the Ethernet/Internet. Users can use the IP address of VPort of SoftDVR? as the web URL address in any popular web browser, such as IE or Netscape, to see video images, or use management functions.
Efficient Bandwidth Management—Bandwidth is an important issue for video transmission via IP networks. We can suggest three ways to manage the bandwidth of MOXA distributed networking solutions:
- Network Switch: MOXA markets a complete series of Industrial Ethernet Switches that feature the advanced Turbo Ring technology (recover time < 300 ms), and cutting-edge network functions, such as VLAN, QoS, and IGMP Snooping for your bandwidth management requirements.
- VMD, I/O Control & Schedule Mode: Users can set up Video Motion Detection (VMD), event triggering by I/O sensors & alarms, or Weekly Schedule mode when using VPort and SoftDVR to transmit video images at specific, preset times. This frees up bandwidth for other network applications when there is no need to view and record.
- Bandwidth Limitation: VPort 2100 Series Video Server gives users the option of setting the bandwidth limit manually for video transmissions, so as not to overload the IP network.
Applications
- Centralized management of restricted areas