Convert your Analog System into IP based system
No need to discard existing cameras and wiring !
enVigil Networked Video Server ( CCTV) Solution
Linux based server, Java based client, simultaneous local and remote viewing and archiving, built in VPN, automated detection of video loss or tampering, sensor integration, PDA phone support, video analytics and
ability to centrally administer distributed multi-location video
Surveillance system "enVigil"
enVigil CCTV ( Video Server) operates on regular bandwidth. Even using a data card ( Verizon or Reliance) one can access 32 channels live with smooth
viewing experience offered by enVigil's bandwidth adaptablity feature.
Using enVigil CCTV it is easy to access multiple locations from
anywhere, anytime. Just upgrade your old DVR system to enVigil (reuse
existing wiring,cameras) & make your CCTV system Modern & full
featured. You get real time pre set SMS & email Alerts &
capability to access property by iPhone, Blackberry or PDA real time.
View Forensic Recording remotely & fully manage enVigil CCTV
remotely. You can use enVigil CCTV (video server) to access your
property, location for security & also go beyond security to
monitor business processes & staff resulting in increased profits.
enVigil transfers all Video Data over VPN ( virtual Private network)
securely while traveling over Internet so nobody can snoop in your
property. Large 2 TB storage can be built in the system, add extended
storage via Networked Attached Storage ( NAS).
Fully networked compact enVigil CCTVs users can access from LAN, WAN, Mobile Phones.
* Designed to survive disasters & malicious attacks
Surveillance system continues to operate even if control room is destroyed. Compact size video servers distributed throughout the facility. Full access
from desktop, laptop and PDA mobile phones.
* End to end secure encrypted communication
Built in VPN for secure encrypted communication over LAN and WAN. Multi level password protection and user verification.
* Complete Multi-location Remote Surveillance Solution
High quality live remote monitoring using LAN, WAN, WiFi, WiMax networks, and GSM and CDMA wireless broadband available from cell phone
operators.
* Automated diagnostics to prevent down time
Supports 24 X 7 X 365 days operation. Automated self diagnostics of video servers, cameras and storage. The central monitoring server reports
un-intended shutdown of enVigil system.
* Integrated sophisticated video analytics
Object left behind, face capture, loitering detection, intrusion detection, wrong way entry etc. Distributed sensor integration (fire alarm sensor,
temperature sensor, water sensor)
* Delivering alerts and alarms through SMS and Emails
* Multi-tier storage and continuous remote archiving for data protection
* Rugged Hardware with Linux operating system
* US based technology and US and India based Engineering and support center
enVigil DataSheet
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Retail Survey Shows Crime Increases Tied to Economy: Is this the time to add security?
Retail Survey Shows Crime Increases Tied to Economy:
Is this the time to add security?
-The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) today released the Current Crime Trends Survey, revealing evidence that crimes against retailers are trending upward in correlation with the down economy.
The survey examines the observations from 52 of the largest and fastest growing retailers in the US, ranging from grocery, drugstore, and mass merchant to specialty apparel, electronics and appliances, and fabric and craft retail. Focusing on the time period associated with the current economic downturn, the survey seeks to identify corresponding trends in unlawful activity.
The report concludes that crimes of opportunity as well as more sophisticated organized retail crime (ORC) are on the rise across all retail segments.
Key findings include:
84% report an increase in theft/amateur shoplifting
76% report an increase in financial fraud
80% report increases in organized retail crime
77% of specialty retailers report increases in ORC
If you need a security system for your retail shop and also can view your shop remotely live or also view recorded video on regular bandwidth then contact us
contact@cradle.com
Is this the time to add security?
-The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) today released the Current Crime Trends Survey, revealing evidence that crimes against retailers are trending upward in correlation with the down economy.
The survey examines the observations from 52 of the largest and fastest growing retailers in the US, ranging from grocery, drugstore, and mass merchant to specialty apparel, electronics and appliances, and fabric and craft retail. Focusing on the time period associated with the current economic downturn, the survey seeks to identify corresponding trends in unlawful activity.
The report concludes that crimes of opportunity as well as more sophisticated organized retail crime (ORC) are on the rise across all retail segments.
Key findings include:
84% report an increase in theft/amateur shoplifting
76% report an increase in financial fraud
80% report increases in organized retail crime
77% of specialty retailers report increases in ORC
If you need a security system for your retail shop and also can view your shop remotely live or also view recorded video on regular bandwidth then contact us
contact@cradle.com
Monday, January 4, 2010
Is frame rate important for 24/7 monitoring and surveillance
Is frame rate important for 24/7 monitoring and surveillance
Looking at all these IP cameras and VMS software and finding out that because of either network bandwidth or storage capacity or both, frame rate is frequently capped at 7.5 or 10 or 15 fps, I sometimes wonder:
1) Does frame rate really matter.... Who really needs 30 fps full time 24/7?
2) What about operators used to analog CCTV. What is their perception when their console is converted to IP and now they monitor video at half the frame rate they did before
3) What are the benefit of full frame rate video for, and who is ready to pay for it? .... City surveillance, port authority, airports, casinos, prisons?????
Looking at all these IP cameras and VMS software and finding out that because of either network bandwidth or storage capacity or both, frame rate is frequently capped at 7.5 or 10 or 15 fps, I sometimes wonder:
1) Does frame rate really matter.... Who really needs 30 fps full time 24/7?
2) What about operators used to analog CCTV. What is their perception when their console is converted to IP and now they monitor video at half the frame rate they did before
3) What are the benefit of full frame rate video for, and who is ready to pay for it? .... City surveillance, port authority, airports, casinos, prisons?????
Sunday, December 6, 2009
storage, bandwidth and access issues in security field
It makes sense to use a Networked Video Server that can use Analog Cameras and compress the maga data and make it digital and then send it across to the client. I would suggest to have a look at enVigil video server
The topic of this discussion is "Network Video Storage and Megapixel Camera Technology" not IP Camera's!
The reason people are so hooked on doing Camera based storage and analytics is due to the premise that IP is the solution for moving SD/HD Video between a Camera and a storage solution be it DVR, NVR, NAS. IP has severe bandwidth, QoS and cost per channel issues when trying to move realtime HD Video across a network.
D1/VGA Camera's are causing performance issues with 720p and 1080p having 4 to 8x more data, the problems of network design and infrastructure become even more apparent.
1) Centralised Video Storage and Image Analytics will ALWAYS be cheaper than Camera based storage and analytics due to Moore's Law.
2) IP transport between a Camera and DVR has limitations that are directly impacting Video quality in terms of both Frame rate and Compression, to meet bandwidth, QoS and cost per channel targets.
3) IP Video Transport is perfect for DVR to Client, as latency and packet loss is not a real issue when reviewing a single stream of Video for review.
4) IP has a hard distance limitation of 100M, and High Frame rate, High Quality HD Video will require GB Ethernet with Cat6 Cable. Distances beyond 100M require Repeater, Routers or Fibre Optic Convertors
The traditional DVR/Camera model with point to point Analogue DVR/Camera transport and IP based Client control and review still offers the best price/performance ratio in the market today. For 16 Camera or less systems with less than 4000 sq/ft, there is simply no need to incur extra costs for an IP Camera architecture, that a) Costs more b) Is harder to Install c) Slower Frame Rates d) Poor picture quality.
NTSC/PAL in D1 is successfully servicing 98% of the installed based and over 90% of new installations. HD Camera's represent less than 150K per year world wide and technologies such as HDcctv (www.highdefcctv.org) will embrace the proven SD DVR/Camera architecture and offer better, cheaper, faster and easier solutions for deploying HD CCTV systems to 85% plus of the market.
IP is great transport and when used correctly offers many benefits but other technologies such as SDi exist for a reason as they offer inherent advantages over IP for certain applications (Uncompressed, Realtime, QoS, Cost per Channel, Low Latency, Distance, Ease of Install). SDi in particular is the backbone of the Broadcast Industries move to HD Video and the investments being made in R&D are an order of magnitude higher than IP Video for CCTV.
SDi makes sense for Camera to DVR
IP makes sense for DVR to Client
www.cradle.com
The topic of this discussion is "Network Video Storage and Megapixel Camera Technology" not IP Camera's!
The reason people are so hooked on doing Camera based storage and analytics is due to the premise that IP is the solution for moving SD/HD Video between a Camera and a storage solution be it DVR, NVR, NAS. IP has severe bandwidth, QoS and cost per channel issues when trying to move realtime HD Video across a network.
D1/VGA Camera's are causing performance issues with 720p and 1080p having 4 to 8x more data, the problems of network design and infrastructure become even more apparent.
1) Centralised Video Storage and Image Analytics will ALWAYS be cheaper than Camera based storage and analytics due to Moore's Law.
2) IP transport between a Camera and DVR has limitations that are directly impacting Video quality in terms of both Frame rate and Compression, to meet bandwidth, QoS and cost per channel targets.
3) IP Video Transport is perfect for DVR to Client, as latency and packet loss is not a real issue when reviewing a single stream of Video for review.
4) IP has a hard distance limitation of 100M, and High Frame rate, High Quality HD Video will require GB Ethernet with Cat6 Cable. Distances beyond 100M require Repeater, Routers or Fibre Optic Convertors
The traditional DVR/Camera model with point to point Analogue DVR/Camera transport and IP based Client control and review still offers the best price/performance ratio in the market today. For 16 Camera or less systems with less than 4000 sq/ft, there is simply no need to incur extra costs for an IP Camera architecture, that a) Costs more b) Is harder to Install c) Slower Frame Rates d) Poor picture quality.
NTSC/PAL in D1 is successfully servicing 98% of the installed based and over 90% of new installations. HD Camera's represent less than 150K per year world wide and technologies such as HDcctv (www.highdefcctv.org) will embrace the proven SD DVR/Camera architecture and offer better, cheaper, faster and easier solutions for deploying HD CCTV systems to 85% plus of the market.
IP is great transport and when used correctly offers many benefits but other technologies such as SDi exist for a reason as they offer inherent advantages over IP for certain applications (Uncompressed, Realtime, QoS, Cost per Channel, Low Latency, Distance, Ease of Install). SDi in particular is the backbone of the Broadcast Industries move to HD Video and the investments being made in R&D are an order of magnitude higher than IP Video for CCTV.
SDi makes sense for Camera to DVR
IP makes sense for DVR to Client
www.cradle.com
Monday, November 9, 2009
How can one avoid video jacking?
The article ( http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/ ) on how a malicious intruder in a LAN can hijack an IP camera and insert his/her own IP feed into the system. The intruder uses a simple but effective technique called ARP cache poisoning / ARP spoofing. ARP cache poisoning is a technique that uses a host computer (the intruder) to position itself between an IP camera and an NVR, making the NVR believe that it is talking to the IP camera, but in fact it is talking to the intruder. This way, the intruder can inject any video feed that it wants into the NVR.
This is a fundamental problem with NVRs and IP cameras. Since LAN is a trusted environment, and ARP is a technique that was developed assuming trust between computers on a LAN, this problem will not easily go away unless the underlying protocols are changed.
Even if the video is encrypted on the LAN, the main communication between the client and the server is not. This can help an attacker disable the NVR/DVR in question, even if he is not able to inject video.
How can one avoid video-jacking? One way is entirely avoid using IP cameras and use only Analog cameras. Since tampering of analog cameras require physical access to the infrastructure, this may be a bit more secure. One can argue that even with analog cameras in place, IP streams still do flow through the LAN from the DVR/NVR to any connected clients.
A more complete way to prevent video injection is by using a peer-to-peer VPN connection along with Analog cameras. Cradle's enVigil products come with peer-to-peer VPN pre-installed. Thus, all access on the LAN to the enVigil server is through a peer-to-peer VPN connection. Thus, even if a computer is hijacked with APR spoofing techniques, it will be nearly impossible to inject/hijack the video streams, since that requires cracking the VPN networking layer.
Please visit www.cradle.com for more information on the enVigil product.
This is a fundamental problem with NVRs and IP cameras. Since LAN is a trusted environment, and ARP is a technique that was developed assuming trust between computers on a LAN, this problem will not easily go away unless the underlying protocols are changed.
Even if the video is encrypted on the LAN, the main communication between the client and the server is not. This can help an attacker disable the NVR/DVR in question, even if he is not able to inject video.
How can one avoid video-jacking? One way is entirely avoid using IP cameras and use only Analog cameras. Since tampering of analog cameras require physical access to the infrastructure, this may be a bit more secure. One can argue that even with analog cameras in place, IP streams still do flow through the LAN from the DVR/NVR to any connected clients.
A more complete way to prevent video injection is by using a peer-to-peer VPN connection along with Analog cameras. Cradle's enVigil products come with peer-to-peer VPN pre-installed. Thus, all access on the LAN to the enVigil server is through a peer-to-peer VPN connection. Thus, even if a computer is hijacked with APR spoofing techniques, it will be nearly impossible to inject/hijack the video streams, since that requires cracking the VPN networking layer.
Please visit www.cradle.com for more information on the enVigil product.
Spoofing IP based CCTV systems
This is reply to the video security over the internet by Tom
Tom Medlicott
Owner, cctvengineer.com
yes i think hybid system will be around for a long time. and infact hybrids will only get better. each month we are starting to see major problems that exist along side the ip systems. end users (the customers) just finding out they have very expensive yearly licence fees to run there ip systems and another problem that has just been released is the following artical from america.
(I HAVE REMOVED LINK TO THE SOFTWARE) if you wish the link please email me.
Spoofing IP based CCTV systems
The case against the security of IP based CCTV systems was recently highlighted with the release of a new web tool shown at the hacker conference in Las Vegas. A security assessment tool, Videojak has the ability to both intercept Internet video feeds and eject false 'looped' images.
Similar in concept to Hollywood's "Mission Impossible" where the attacker can hack, monitor and record a CCTV feed (when nothing is happening), then play this back in a loop to hide the actual live feed (presumably while Tom Cruise is lowered down on a black rope).
This tool also provides the ability to intercept video conferencing.
To be on the safe side, if you are using any kind of conferencing facility you should assume that the information can be intercepted. With the popularity of IP streamed video systems we are not sure if our network is compromised or not.
so another reason why hybrid is better. i.e use analog in the top security places and ip in not so high places. have the best of both worlds with a hybrid system
Tom Medlicott
Owner, cctvengineer.com
yes i think hybid system will be around for a long time. and infact hybrids will only get better. each month we are starting to see major problems that exist along side the ip systems. end users (the customers) just finding out they have very expensive yearly licence fees to run there ip systems and another problem that has just been released is the following artical from america.
(I HAVE REMOVED LINK TO THE SOFTWARE) if you wish the link please email me.
Spoofing IP based CCTV systems
The case against the security of IP based CCTV systems was recently highlighted with the release of a new web tool shown at the hacker conference in Las Vegas. A security assessment tool, Videojak has the ability to both intercept Internet video feeds and eject false 'looped' images.
Similar in concept to Hollywood's "Mission Impossible" where the attacker can hack, monitor and record a CCTV feed (when nothing is happening), then play this back in a loop to hide the actual live feed (presumably while Tom Cruise is lowered down on a black rope).
This tool also provides the ability to intercept video conferencing.
To be on the safe side, if you are using any kind of conferencing facility you should assume that the information can be intercepted. With the popularity of IP streamed video systems we are not sure if our network is compromised or not.
so another reason why hybrid is better. i.e use analog in the top security places and ip in not so high places. have the best of both worlds with a hybrid system
The importance of encrypting video over Internet
The importance of encrypting video over IP
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
How important it is to send video encripted and over the VPN?
The importance of encrypting video over IP
How important it is to send video over encrypted video VPN?
Read this article
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
1. The attackers are able to view video being streamed across a network, and
2. The attackers are able to use a man-in-the-middle attack to insert video controlled by the attacker to a video decoder somewhere on the network.
The linked video shows viscerally how an attacker could foil a security/surveillance video system – a modern-day Thomas Crown Affair. But the underlying problem goes beyond the surveillance market and could conceivably affect a wide range of industries using video over IP. This is a big deal, and vendors of any form of network-connected IP video device – whether a camera, encoder, or decoder – should take note.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
How important it is to send video encripted and over the VPN?
The importance of encrypting video over IP
How important it is to send video over encrypted video VPN?
Read this article
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
1. The attackers are able to view video being streamed across a network, and
2. The attackers are able to use a man-in-the-middle attack to insert video controlled by the attacker to a video decoder somewhere on the network.
The linked video shows viscerally how an attacker could foil a security/surveillance video system – a modern-day Thomas Crown Affair. But the underlying problem goes beyond the surveillance market and could conceivably affect a wide range of industries using video over IP. This is a big deal, and vendors of any form of network-connected IP video device – whether a camera, encoder, or decoder – should take note.
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