Highlights of the three major security markets after the High Definition era

Currently, high-definition monitoring is mainly based on networking, and network monitoring currently lacks mature and unified standards. This brings about compatibility issues between cameras and platforms and NVRs from different vendors.

1, the cost is too high to lead to expensive first is the cost problem. This problem is manifested in several aspects: First, due to the inconvenience caused by the high cost of the product in the early days, especially the high-definition camera is much more expensive than the previous standard definition camera, even though there are hundreds of dollars on the market. HD network cameras, but such products are at the expense of quality and effectiveness. In the long run, they are not conducive to high-definition. Second, they are limited by the development of video processing technology and the same encoding and decoding technologies as before. The video brings higher bitstreams, which leads to a rise in both network transmission costs and video storage costs. Thirdly, the cost of the central platform equipment and display equipment also increases accordingly. These several factors combine to make the same monitoring system use HD much higher than SD. This makes high-definition applications are still concentrated in industries such as safe cities and other relatively abundant funds. Of course, as the market continues to expand, planning becomes more rational and more efficient video processing technologies (such as H.264 High Profile) become popular, cost issues will be gradually resolved.

2. The compatibility issue is the challenge of the division of labor model, followed by the compatibility issue. High-definition reflects the overall solution, from the front-end to the center management and storage, and then to the back-end display, every link of the product must be high-definition. These products must be organized into a system that necessarily involves interconnection issues. Currently, high-definition monitoring is mainly based on networking, and network monitoring currently lacks mature and unified standards. This brings about compatibility issues between cameras and platforms and NVRs from different vendors. This problem has brought great challenges to the previous model of division of labor in the security industry. It is not enough for a company to produce products for only one link. He needs to do products in multiple links at the same time. In this context, the standardization of network monitoring has received more and more attention in the past two years. The progress of some standards and specifications (such as ONVIF and HDcctv, etc.) has also progressed smoothly.

3, improve the industrial chain, enrich the product form and species The third is the product category. As mentioned above, every link in a system is a true high-definition in every stage. IP cameras, platforms/NVRs, storage, and video wall decoding are required in IP HD. SDI cameras, optical transceivers, and HD-SDI HD are required. DVR and matrix. Due to the short development time, compared with the traditional standard definition monitoring, the high-definition products are not very rich in types and forms, and the user's choice is limited to some extent. It is encouraging that as more and more manufacturers enter the high-definition field, the industrial chain will become more and more perfect, and the product forms and product categories will also become more and more abundant. In addition, with the popularity of high-definition, more and more high-definition applications in the industry. In the past, standard-definition monitoring has accumulated more industry practices. Therefore, SD still occupies a large market share. The current accumulation of high-definition surveillance is not very large, and many customers still maintain a wait-and-see attitude, which also determines that the popularity of HD will be hindered. However, we firmly believe that as long as we continue to pay attention to it, continue to improve, the popularity of high-definition, just around the corner.