International. Viakoo, a provider of solutions for managing and securing distributed IoT devices, received a patent for its systems and methods for measuring the quality of video surveillance IoT infrastructure.
Viakoo's solution generates three key measures that together define the overall operational health of an IoT surveillance system. These measurements can be used to identify whether a video stream is working properly, can alert users when there are issues that could threaten the integrity of video recording, and can help point responsible individuals toward service and maintenance needs.
"Modern ioT video surveillance applications are larger and more complex than ever, and at the same time, the video recordings they capture are more important than ever," said Bud Broomhead, CEO of Viakoo. "This new measurement system is just what administrators need to help ensure their systems are working properly and, in the event of problems, where to focus their attention to solve them quickly and efficiently."
Viakoo highlights the fact that, so far, determining whether video streams are being recorded correctly has been a complex, time-consuming and laborious process. Existing network monitoring tools provide a large number of measurements, but do not accurately identify whether each video stream is working properly, whether it is being fully recorded, or whether it is being retained for the intended period of time. They can usually only identify more obvious situations where physical devices fail completely.
With the new patented measurement system, it is now possible to define the overall operational health of a video surveillance infrastructure at the desired level of complexity, from a single video stream to a more complete system measurement. That is, the company can create general measures for a single video stream, a single digital video recording server, a collection of servers, and the associated surveillance cameras on the site, a site collection, or an entire distributed organization. In addition, by regularly capturing these values, measures can be observed for trends at any level, revealing historical problems, systemic problems, or evidence of improvement in meeting organizational goals.
This invention effectively solves a major problem for video surveillance IoT operations and provides a comprehensive solution for any IoT application from devices that transmit data to recording systems.
