How to Find a Breakthrough in Video Surveillance Platform Software

When it comes to security monitoring systems, many people focus their attention on cameras (cameras, Bolts), hard disk recorders, video servers or video walls, or they may also think of a wide variety of matrix products. The core and most important video monitoring platform software has been missed by people and may not even mention it. However, with the development of security monitoring systems, and the trends of digital, networked, and intelligent monitoring are moving forward steadily, the video surveillance management platform is under conditions of many front-end headcounts, complex business structures, and high management and integration. It also attracts more and more people's attention, and it is gradually applied in important security business systems and relatively large-scale systems. From an objective point of view, the current video surveillance platform products on the market are still immature and lack quality products.

Based on this, domestic platform vendors still have a lot of room for development and significant opportunities.

A video surveillance platform will be vigorously developed in the mid-long term and is in an important position:

(1) As the system scale becomes larger and larger, the video surveillance system presents a strong networking demand, and it is necessary to integrate the video surveillance platform: In the past, video surveillance systems usually had only dozens of points or dozens of independent points; The application of video surveillance systems in the industry is growing. There is a need to cover one city and even cover the whole country. Typical safe cities, such as public security, must achieve network coverage of key video surveillance information points in a city, and even cascade and share in multiple cities. Rail transit will set several or dozens of camera spots at each railway station, several railway stations will be linked together, and several hundred railway lines will be brought together to the Ministry of Railways. This is a very large system. The bank also gradually put forward the need to link multiple branch offices' video networks to the city's branches and multiple cities and bring them back to the head office. In the recent successful implementation of a national headquarters-level railway video surveillance project, Ruihu Technology requested the integration of video surveillance systems of different railway sub-stations, and it should implement integrated management and control of both video and video streams. Security, privacy, and flexibility have high requirements. It is the general trend of development of video surveillance platforms that some large platforms and large networks are visible.

(2) The business and management requirements are becoming more and more complex. In the past, mainly for security precautions, video surveillance software applications in various industries can now pay more and more attention to management. For example, the government-built Safe City project not only hopes to provide the basis for the investigation of public security. It also hopes to be used for government's emergency command, rescue and disaster relief, and other business applications; the banking system not only protects the bank's security on the one hand, but also records the financial operation process of business personnel on the other. It can help track down the mistakes in the financial disputes such as the wrong money and the discovery of counterfeit coins. In addition to campus security, the education industry also hopes to use the system to realize the functions of electronic examination room management and distance education. The transportation industry is not only used for traffic violations. , It can also be used for live traffic jams and traffic flow monitoring. These complex business application models cannot be realized by purely stand-alone devices. They must be integrated and shared to meet the management requirements.

(3) The division of labor in the industrial chain will become more and more detailed. The platform will be responsible for the interface and value-added services: The development of each industry will go toward division of labor, and video surveillance will be the same. There will be some later: Some manufacturers specialize in cameras, some manufacturers specialize in DVRs, some manufacturers specialize in matrices, and some manufacturers do monitors. At this time, special software vendors are required to make video monitoring platform software, and then integrate them through integrators to provide them to end customers. The platform will be responsible for the integration and value-adding of the equipment; it will then form a value-added service.

(4) Domestic platform manufacturers have local advantages The Chinese market is huge, and the monitoring projects are much larger than those of foreign countries. Compared to the scale of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of points in a Chinese city, foreign systems lack such a large-scale actual combat environment; Second, the foreign monitoring system does not have such complex user management, equipment management, and rights management modes in China. The system is often simple in structure. The sharp eye intelligent video monitoring platform software independently developed by Ruihu Technology, with its powerful hierarchical authorization management function and professional video surveillance technology, has formed industry solutions in banks, coal mines, electric power, public security and safe cities, and has played a role in local manufacturers. The advantages.

What form of products are used by the second platform? Currently, many platforms in China are pure software platforms, and some platforms may be based on desktop-level operating system development and design, such as Windows systems. Of course, some vendors are also based on Linux. This situation arises because the current platform is heavily dependent on vendor hardware. Can not get rid of the package form of the hardware manufacturer SDK, resulting in what kind of SDK provided by the hardware vendor, can only be corresponding to it; otherwise it may not be achieved. Of course, there are also some soft and hard integrated platforms in China, but they are all in their infancy.

(1) In the end, we use pure software, hardware integration, or embedded hardware to develop products. In fact, these should all be based on the user's level and needs, and not contradictory. Product development and design are generally divided into the following levels according to the level of reliability: Civil-grade reliability: Low-reliability, low-cost design level, to meet the daily consumer demand, usually the equipment operates in accordance with the stability and reliability of 7*8 hours, the system often There are phenomena such as downtime, reset, and service interruption. The products are usually implemented with pure software. Commercial-grade reliability: The medium-reliable, medium-cost design level, the stability of the equipment can meet reliable operation for many consecutive days, but the system will fail. , reset and other phenomena, the business occasionally interrupted, the product is usually implemented with hardware and software; carrier-class reliability: the system is designed continuously and continuously for 7*24 hours, and the reliability is extremely high. The system rarely experiences downtime and resetting. There should be no interruption. If a service interruption occurs, it is regarded as a product accident. The product is usually implemented by pure hardware. The hardware is designed to perform reliability design measures such as redundant backup and load balancing; the aerospace-grade reliability: the system is designed with no errors. There should not be any downtime or reset phenomenon on the machine. The reliability is extremely high. The product is usually pure hardware or Implemented in hardware, the hardware will be multi-level redundancy, high redundancy design business.

(2) The separation of the basic platform and value-added services. On the one hand, security must support more and more business application features. On the other hand, it must provide more capacity and more stable functions. The stability and the complexity of the business are sometimes contradictory. The solution is that the video surveillance platform technology will be divided and divided into a basic platform for basic video services and a value-added feature platform for value-added service features. This combination is like the basic business of operators and the value-added services of ISP value-added service providers. The equipment provided by a certain platform vendor provides basic services. Then the ISP partners of various industries develop value-added services for the industry on the basic platform. Is a very viable model. The sharp eye intelligent security operation platform independently developed by Ruihu Technology fully realizes the separation of the basic business platform and the value-added service platform, which enables the platform to provide a large-scale video surveillance operation service platform specifically for carrier-grade operators such as telecommunications, China Unicom, and mobile. , And can provide e-commerce website customers OEM video applications, such as remote shopping guides, real-time customer service, remote enterprise display. Ruiying Intelligent Video Surveillance Operating Edition adopts standard Internet protocols, and is developed according to the carrier-class network video surveillance technology specification. It also has a platform operation plan for millions of video accesses to ensure the stability and reliability of platforms under ultra-large scale. The platform supports client, mobile phone and other methods of monitoring to meet the needs of customers in various industries. The function is as follows:

(3) Open platform architecture, standard interface. The platform should provide a standardized interface protocol for application development by various partners. With a layered and open architecture, it provides platform-level interfaces that shield the upper-layer services from the underlying monitoring device management and service scheduling details. End-to-end vertical and full integration does not conform to the specialization and scale of economic development. In any mature industry, the provision of its business is layered. For example, in the IT industry, basic hardware facilities, equipment management software/operating systems, middleware/databases, and application software have formed a stable layered architecture. The closer to the bottom layer, the more obvious the advantage of standardization and scale, and the closer to the upper level, The more distinctive the characteristics of specialization and personalization, the stronger the corresponding value-added ability. In order to better integrate industry resources and realize multi-party industry partners, Ruihu Technology adopts a brand-new open architecture to provide cross-domain interfaces from the platform to the platform in the design of the Intelligent Video Monitoring Platform V3.0. Convergence media to the streaming media forwarding interface, basic video application services and e-commerce website interface, device access VDI interface.

In order to achieve the advantages and disadvantages of different manufacturers in the industry chain, sharing resources.

The three platforms should find new ways to find breakthroughs from those areas.

The market always tends to be rational in the turmoil. The video terminal products that have been popular in the past have gradually entered the stage of fierce price war. While the security industry is still developing at a high speed, the driving force and focus of development will soon return to the rational recognition of platform products. It is very likely that the market will reshuffle the layout of monitoring terminals and platform products. It is believed that all manufacturers will measure their respective future security markets. After a certain period of monitoring network and business development, the monitoring system management and monitoring business operations must be gradually separated to form an independent monitoring system management platform, including equipment management, user management, security strategy management and business management, and the management platform will continue to Professional development. In the future development, the platform can start from the following aspects:

(1) The intelligentization of the platform The access of a smart device and the intelligent development of the two platforms themselves. The future video surveillance platform will help people remove a lot of spam information and make users more relaxed in the effectiveness of video information. With regard to the extension method of smart technology, general data exchange can be performed in XML or the like. Depth intelligent analysis of the front-end devices for networking. General intelligent video surveillance equipment has entered a mature stage of development, but the level of intelligence in high-precision, high-end applications such as facial recognition remains to be improved. At the same time, the intelligent development of software platforms is a trend. For example, in the Safe City project, the input of the suspect's facial image and the automatic comparison and analysis of video files through the software platform can quickly analyze the time and route of the suspect's case, thus greatly saving the time for manual screening. Sharp eye intelligent video monitoring platform is currently trying and efforts in the direction of platform intelligence, such as license plate recognition, flow statistics, fatigue driving protection are not subject to hardware, and intelligent analysis through pure software platform.

(2) Upper-level business management capabilities This is a platform-based architectural capability. To separate and seamlessly connect the basic platform and the value-added platform. The platform can provide an open interface. Whether it is SDK or API, each bank's partner can develop value-added services based on the basic platform. End-to-end vertical and full integration does not conform to the specialization and scale of economic development. In any mature industry, the provision of its business is layered. For example, in the IT industry, basic hardware facilities, equipment management software/operating systems, middleware/databases, and application software have formed a stable layered architecture. The closer to the bottom layer, the more obvious the advantage of standardization and scale, and the closer to the upper level, The more distinctive the characteristics of specialization and personalization, the stronger the corresponding value-added ability.

(3) The network/bandwidth communication network guarantees interconnection and interoperability, for example, it will be used for 3G, future 4G, wireless, and microwave. Not only has the ability to penetrate network communications, but also has its own solution to bandwidth management or network bottlenecks. Can be considered in load balancing and distributed streaming media setup, CDN technology applications. Of course, in video recompression technology, you can find more breakthroughs. Ruimei intelligent security operation platform is currently being applied to a remote video surveillance operating platform built by a carrier-grade carrier in Zhejiang. In particular, it has achieved initial results in video transmission over 3G networks and video viewing on 3G mobile phones. At the same time, a really good video surveillance software should adapt to extremely bad network bandwidth, including satellite, microwave, dialing, and other video transmission in the case of only 2M narrowband. Ruihu Technology recently implemented a successful national video surveillance project for the coastal army (units). The network environment is a hybrid network of satellites, microwaves, and scattering. There is only 1.5M bandwidth. Under such extremely harsh bandwidth conditions, the intelligent eye video surveillance platform implements three-level forwarding of streaming media (including browsing and control of images), video rotation, and remote dual CMS server synchronization (one server is broken, Another quickly takes over such advanced application functions.

(4) The stability of the platform for performance and energy saving is crucial. As for networking capabilities and concurrent capabilities, no further explanation will be given here. With the gradual development of the platform, energy-saving links also need to be considered. Hardware vendors will gradually start to consider ways to save energy, and platforms will gradually follow suit. In short, the video surveillance platform has great development space and opportunities, but if it is limited to a software approach, it is bound to be at a competitive disadvantage. In the future, there will be more room for carrier-class distributed processing.