Simplifying 3rd party DVR/NVR integration: PSIM and access control manufacturers will clearly find these standards advantageous.

Recorder standards depend on the voluntary adoption by manufacturers.

If some sites are better served by other manufacturers (specific features needed or lower price points for different camera configurations), it's hard to choose them.

If better quality (or less expensive) alternatives arise over time, it's hard to switch.However, the costs and penalties of 'locking in' to a single vendor is also high: The limitations are serious. Operators would have to switch back and forth to view different cameras, could get confused about what cameras are associated with which manufacturer's recorders and would not be able to display all cameras on a single monitor.įinancial Penalties from Having to Use a Single Vendorīecause of these drawbacks, the pressures to use a single recording vendor is high. Because of this, if security managers used multiple recorders, operators would be forced to use multiple applications. The main practical issue is that each manufacturer has their own proprietary viewing software that almost never supports viewing video from other manufacturer's recorders. Operational Constraints from Poor Interoperability Even large organizations with thousands of cameras and hundreds of sites rarely use more than 1 or 2 manufacturer's recorders (even if they use more than a dozen manufacturer's cameras).Įmerging interoperability specifications from PSIA and ONVIF aim to eliminate this problem. Security managers suffer from no standards for surveillance recorders.

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