3VR MAKES SURVEILLANCE VIDEO STORAGE SMARTER

3VR Security claims its SmartStorage technology can reduce video storage requirements by as much 10x over traditional DVRs, while making investigations across vast amounts of video information faster and more accurate.

3VR says traditional video recorders treat essential video evidence the same way they do useless video footage: Security professionals are often forced to degrade video quality through compression to reduce storage requirements, "a compromise that reduces costs but destroys important video evidence." And even if the investment is made in large storage arrays, no one can find critical evidence in a "staggering amount of unstructured video," the company says.

3VR claims it SmartStorage leverages its analytics to intelligently identify and catalog the best images from within video and then save these images in "Event Cards" -- 3VR's video management technique that shows high-resolution images of faces, text, objects and motion that are identified by the 3VR system and indexed before they are stored.
The overall approach saves only important video: it automatically finds the best representative images from within surveillance video to create lightweight, easily catalogued and stored Event Cards.

The result makes it possible to store higher-quality video evidence for much longer periods of time, the company says, while at the same time dramatically reducing storage requirements and costs.

7/13/2007
Paul Worthington