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VisorNET
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Video & Audio transmission equipment for security applications and
services "

MPEG4 streaming video: Since
2002, Telsec has been investing a considerable amount of its engineering
resources in developing and perfecting its own MPEG4 video compression
technology. MPEG4 provides the most efficient video compression ratio available
in the industry, offering unmatched performance both for low bandwidth (as low
as 4 Kbps) and high speed (ADSL or Cable) applications and telecommunication
lines. |
| MPEG4
performance chart |
| Bandwidth |
Communication line type |
Frames / Second
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9.6 Kbps |
Cell
phones |
0.5
- 0.8 fps |
| 54
Kbps |
Telephone
lines |
2
- 5 fps |
| 128
Kbps |
Basic ADSL line |
4
- 10 fps |
| 256
Kbps |
Premium ADSL line |
6 - 15 fps
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| 512
Kbps |
Cable |
12 - 25 fps
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| Note: Frames per second measured
transmitting one single camera, CIF format (352x288 pixels) with 30% image
variation. |
VisorNET's
MPEG4 codec offers a much higher efficiency than any other video standard both
for video transmission and video recording applications. As shown in the chart
below, MPEG4's compression ratios can be as much as 5 times more efficient than
traditional JPEG based solutions.
| Video
Transmission Comparison |
MJPEG |
Wavelets
/ JPEG2000 |
MPEG4 |
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9.6 Kbps |
0.15
- 0.2 fps |
0.2
- 0.35 fps |
0.5
- 0.8 fps |
| 54
Kbps |
0.6
- 0.8 fps |
0.9
- 1.2 fps |
2
- 5 fps |
| 128
Kbps |
1.5 - 2 fps |
1.8
- 3 fps |
4 - 10 fps |
| 256
Kbps |
3 - 4 fps |
4.5
- 6 fps |
6 - 15 fps |
| 512
Kbps |
6 - 8 fps |
9
- 12 fps |
12 - 25 fps |
To see how MPEG4 offers a much
higher performance than MJPEG under the same bandwidth and image/movement
conditions, click on the links below. As you'll be able to see, MPEG4 offers
between 4 and 6 time the performance in terms of frames per second and it uses
much less bandwidth.
Note:
Quicktime player 5.0 or higher is required to view the video files. Should you
need to install the cquicktime player, click here
to access Quicktime's download page.
Independent transmission and recording: The VisorNET is capable of
compressing each video stream from every camera two times so that every camera
can be simultaneously used for recording and transmission. This means that each
camera is going to be treated differently for recording and for transmission
purposes, allowing for the best possible quality for local recordings and
optimized performance through the internet (with dynamic bandwidth conditions).
| Independent
transmission and recording video streams |
| Independent
bitrates and qualities for recording and transmission |
YES |
| Recording
format |
MJPEG
or MPEG4 |
| Transmission
format |
MJPEG
or MPEG4 |
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Maximum recording images per second |
25
(NTSC), 30 (PAL) |
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Maximum transmission images per second |
25
(NTSC), 30 (PAL) |
Video alarms with pre and post
alarm images: Upon the activation of one of its alarm inputs, the
VisorNET equipment can be programmed to capture a video sequence and send it to
the monitoring central station. The video sequence length ranges from 4 seconds
to up to 6 minutes per camera (depending on the equipment version - regular
configurations support up to 14 seconds).
| Video
Alarms |
| Minimum
video sequence length per camera |
4
seconds |
| Maximum
video sequence length per camera |
6
minutes (14 seconds on normal configurations) |
| Automatic
transmission to monitoring station |
YES
(programmable) |
| Pre
and post alarm programming |
YES
(programmable pre-alarm length from 5% to 95%) |
| Video
alarms video compression format |
MJPEG
(aprox. 10 - 12 KB per frame) |
| Frame
rate used for video alarm recording |
2
fps (not programmable) |
Networked and local recording
capabilities: VisorNET is Telsec's basic video transmission unit for video
alarm verification and video monitoring but as there are a number of
applications that, as well as a high performance in video transmission, also
require local recording capabilities, Telsec has developed the concept of "Network
Videol Recorder", known as NVR, and endowed the VisorNET
unit with the capability to make both local and remote recordings using this
technology.
Each VisorNET camera can be
programmed to make continuous, day, night or event driven recordings to any
VisorDISK unit accessible either through the LAN (local recording) or, in fact,
accessible anywhere on the internet (remote recording). The VisorDISK unit is
Telsec's NVR equipment and is capable of holding up to 2 standard hard drives
(500GB with nowadays hard drive sizes).
One of the advantages of NVR
recordings is that the video transmission unit is independent of the recording
media, which allows for independent maintenance of both units (hard drives do
have more maintenance problems: fragmentation, drive failures...) and thus, it
provides a more reliable system with less downtime periods. For more information
about the VisorDISK NVR solution, click here
or go to the documentation
area of this website for brochures, manuals and technical
specification.

Networked video and audio: The VisorNET 4C
units, in its three versions: desktop, wall-mount and rack mount, is a network
video transmission unit designed to work over almost any kind of IP network.
Several VisorNET 4C units can be installed in one same local area network (LAN),
all of them working together as one single logical unit and transmitting video
and audio through the same telecommunication line: telephone, ISDN, ADSL,
Cable.... In fact, one of the VisorNET units will be designated as the
"master unit" and will be the one routing all the video and audio
streams to the central monitoring station or to an authorized internet user.
Master/Slave configurations for up to 16 cameras: In those
installations where more than 4 cameras are needed, the VisorNET units can be
stacked and work and programmed to work as one single 16 channel unit. This
modular architecture present the following advantages:
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» Modular configuration supports 4, 8, 12 and 16 cameras. |
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» All cameras are part of the same "logical unit" so from the
Central Station side they all belong to one same site. |
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» Only one communication line or public IP address is needed. The
master unit acts as the router or gateway for all the other slaves
units. |
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» Each of the 4 cameras VisorNET offers the same level of performance
than the master unit, so the system doesn't loose performance when
adding new modules. |
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» Each VisorNET slave unit can be anywhere in the same LAN as the
master VisorNET (i.e. : one on each floor in the same building or
covering different areas of a large area like a campus, airport, etc...) |

Modular VisorNET installation for up to 16 cameras working
together as one single logical unit
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