Cisco Cisco Video Surveillance 4000 IP Camera Prospecto
Solution Overview
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Cisco
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Wireless Video Surveillance: Improving Operations
and Security
What You Will Learn
Today’s organizations need flexible, intelligent systems to help protect people and assets as well
as streamline business operations. The Cisco
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Wireless Video Surveillance solution allows
organizations to utilize their mobility infrastructure to install surveillance tools, such as wireless
video surveillance cameras, on demand wherever there is wireless coverage.
The flexibility provided by the Cisco
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Wireless Video Surveillance Solution provides
organizations with:
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Improved video surveillance coverage where cable placement is difficult
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Support for ad-hoc or temporary monitoring of locations
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Support for integration with specialized video surveillance and mobility services applications
for improved operations and intelligence.
Challenge
Organizations face a variety of physical security challenges. They must address liability obligations
for the people within their organization, including employees, contractors, customers, and guests.
They must work to prevent loss of property and limit the cost of asset loss to the organization.
They must also be able to respond to threats and emergencies, whether these events manifest as
campus crime or a medical crisis.
Traditionally, organizations have employed video surveillance as a tool to help address their
security challenges. Analog surveillance systems provided a base level of functionality to monitor
large areas from a central location without the need to maintain a personal presence. These
systems could also use recorded video as an historical account of events that occurred.
While analog systems delivered surveillance coverage, they came with the additional capital and
operational expense of maintaining a separate physical cabling plant (generally coaxial cable) and
recording system. Costs also increased because this infrastructure was often available only
through single-vendor solutions. Also, these systems didn’t support using video analytics to add
intelligence to the surveillance.
Today, organizations are moving to IP-based video systems to deliver video surveillance over a
common infrastructure (IP networks) in a low-cost, interoperable manner. These IP-based
solutions support using analytics software to add intelligence to the video surveillance system.
They also deliver lower capital and operational expenses by consolidating in a unified cabling
plant. IP-based solutions also allow video to be more flexibly delivered, not only to surveillance
applications but any application that is based on an IP platform.
The challenges associated with both analog and IP-based video surveillance solutions include
the following:
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Lack of pervasive coverage: Analog and IP video surveillance systems rely solely on wired
cameras, which requires either CCTV or Ethernet cabling to be run to each camera. This