South African companies are embracing SerVision`s low bit-rate video monitoring systems as an affordable and practical solution for remote and centralised video surveillance.
That`s according to Mark Chertkow, managing director of Graphic Image Technologies (GIT), the local distributor of the SerVision product range. He says the SerVision product is a narrowband solution capable of delivering video at rates from 6Kbps to 2Mbps.
SerVision systems allow operators to deliver up to 10 live video feeds over a standard 64Kbps link, finally making centralised and remote monitoring affordable to a cross-section of organisations.
Traditional video monitoring is usually analogue, based on hard-wires and is complex and expensive to use. SerVision uses the latest advancements in broadband, IP video streaming and cellular networks to enable affordable video monitoring to be delivered directly to mobile users as well as to operators in centralised control rooms.
In the past, CCTV surveillance video was usually run on a separate network or over ISDN, as it tends to interfere with normal data traffic by causing data and transaction loss. The SerVision solution allows companies to leverage their existing WAN infrastructure without the historical drawbacks of such an approach, which means there are no additional monthly costs for remote surveillance, Chertkow says.
"These state-of-the art mobile video CCTV monitoring solutions really do take the security industry into its next phase. Apart from standard Diginet links, companies that use this technology can access remote CCTV video monitoring over cellphone (GPRS or 3G), ADSL, MyWireless, or any other IP-based WAN link," says Chertkow.
The benefits of remote monitoring include alarm verification, higher productivity, better security management as well as improved management of armed response services. By allowing management to access remote sites on alarm, CCTV becomes a proactive response tool instead of a post event investigative solution.
Soltrack is one example of a local company that has reaped significant benefits from the SerVision system. The vehicle tracking company has established a business partnership with SerVision and GIT as part of its strategy to offer clients remote CCTV monitoring services and products that complement its fleet management solutions.
Soltrack opened a 24-hour monitoring control room to monitor vehicles on behalf of its clients and saw an obvious opportunity to use this infrastructure to expand into the CCTV offsite monitoring business.
It is using the SerVision video monitoring system to provide a 24-hour monitoring service that is able to advise clients of security alerts, break-ins, fires and other incidents that demand a reaction. In addition, Soltrack will resell SerVision product to its clients as one of the best-of-breed monitoring solutions it has in its portfolio.
Says Clifford Solarsh, CEO of Soltrack: "We conducted an extensive search of the market, comparing functionality, cost and after-sales support across a range of products. We chose SerVision because it meets all of our needs with a high quality product that could be monitored off site on a low bandwidth connection, resulting in good quality pictures at low prices."
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