3 Video Trends Integrators Need To Watch In 2016

By James Marcella, Director of Technical Services, Axis Communications

Whether you are a small business owner or a security professional working for a large corporation, your options for leveraging video surveillance solutions will increase in many ways in 2016, but in some others, it will actually decrease. Hopefully you will fall into both categories as each one will provide measureable return on investment, while moving video surveillance from a reactive technology into one that proactively mitigates risks as they unfold. 

1. Next generation video codecs will likely introduce the most return on your investment. H.265 is currently deployed in consumer electronics products, but has slowly been making its way into niche video surveillance cameras. The challenge is that the recording software needs to be re-coded to support the standard, which has recently become a licensed technology through the HEVC Advance. Another option is to use standard H.264, which has been optimized to save bandwidth in your typical surveillance scenes. By reducing compression on moving objects and increasing it on static ones, some video codecs can reduce the storage requirement by 50 percent or more while still maintaining support for existing recording applications. The result is video that retains forensics details in areas such as a person’s face, while compressing the non-pertinent parts of the scene at a higher factor therefore decreasing the overall storage requirement.

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