VIVOTEK has launched its miniature H.264 1-CH video server VS8100. With its compact size and power sharing feature, the Taiwanese manufacturers say that the product is an option for front-end installations and discreet applications, such as homes, offices, retail stores, banks, and city surveillance, allowing for migration from analogue to digital.
With the evolution of networks and a rise in demand for high resolution images, the transition from analogue takes time when considering the legacy systems installed. Through the video servers, data received from analogue cameras can be encoded by the company’s self-developed codec system and broadcast via an IP network for monitoring and recording.
The product’s compact size, no larger than that of a human finger, means that minimal footprint is required to deploy the server in a variety of applications. The power sharing feature allows the unit to share power with an existing 12V DC power supply from an analogue camera. The H.264 compression format is able to reduce video file sizes, for bandwidth efficiency and best use of storage capacity. By supporting multiple simultaneous streams, the video streams can be transmitted in H.264 or MJPEG formats. With the ST7501 multi-lingual 32-channel recording software, an IP surveillance system can be set up with the makers say minimal difficulty.
Steve Ma, Executive VP at VIVOTEK, said: “In the past decade, we have witnessed a revolution in the video surveillance industry. With the increasing maturity of IP technology and the increasing readiness of new infrastructure, end users’ behavior has drastically changed, which has overwhelmingly driven the market towards the evolution of new technology. Despite the development of IP surveillance products, the transformation from existing analogue legacy systems to IP in the marketplace will not happen overnight. However, users with analog systems who wish to take advantage of the scalability and functionality that IP cameras are equipped with can use our new video server, VS8100, which is an ideal stepping stone to IP surveillance.”
For more about VIVOTEK and its product line, visit www.vivotek.com.
