Sony’s IP Based Monitoring Solution for CCTV Benefits

Story link: Sony’s IP Based Monitoring Solution for CCTV Benefits by Brian Turner

Sony’s Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) technology platform allows companies to benefit from high performance IP monitoring networks without the risk of overloading existing IT infrastructure.

The system has significant benefits over analogue CCTV systems, which are unable to alert security staff to potential threats. Sony’s new surveillance technologies include a new generation of intelligent cameras that can detect potential threats and pro-actively alert staff.

Sony has now extended the intelligent camera concept with DEPA architecture which supports a more logical and robust workflow. DEPA supports Sony’s intelligent cameras and also includes RealShot Manager – IP monitoring and management software. DEPA and RealShot Manager work together to provide a precise, real-time and co-ordinate based view of a potential threat.

The DEPA platform allows much of the pre-processing of data to take place in camera, reducing network communications and bandwidth requirements. It also minimises storage requirements.

Bandwidth requirements are lower for a DEPA-enabled surveillance system and storage requirements are consequently small. This facilitates faster searches of video material and ensures optimal picture quality.

The system’s enhanced image processing capabilities mean that false alarms caused by environmental noise can be minimised and abandoned objects can be identified based on metadata generated by the camera. These two features are known as Intelligent Motion Detection and Intelligent Object Detection.