RE: Surveillance Videos and Security Cameras on the System i ? ? ? ? ?

The key to any Surveillance system is the data base that keeps track of
the individual recorded video files, and storage of those video files.
The next step is an interface to the data base that will use a video
player on the local client. Gee a web interface can do that to a
windows or Linux or Unix system. There is no reason for the iSeries not
to be that server. And IP cameras just write there video stream to an
IP enabled server somewhere on your network. No the old analog camera's
that need a special card to attach coax cameras is another story. There
I would prefer a hardened appliance to capture the video and write to
the IP server for storage/retrieval.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:58 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Surveillance Videos and Security Cameras on the System i ?
? ? ? ?

Forgive my ignorance...but how would you host a video surveillance
system on
a text-based system that has no GUI?

At best you would get a java front end on it, which would be unbearably
slow, and you'd still need a PC or MAC to run it on, and on the other
end,
you'd have to go with an xServer or a stand-a-lone windows system that
did
all the GUI work and handled the DirectX (assuming Windows) calls for
interfacing with the cameras and displaying the images. The only thing
the
iSeries would get you for something like this is the ability to store
information about the images captured or video stored in a secure
database.

I make a living from the iSeries but I would not recommend it to a
client
for solutions where it was not suited.