Future HD video surveillance standard alliance market will determine the standard

In 2009, several chip and system vendors officially announced a new standard, HDcctv, developed for high-definition surveillance systems. It is hoped that the adoption of the new standard could lead to a more easily deployed, lower-cost Internet. Protocol (IP) system alternatives. HDcctv, as one of the standard alliances for video surveillance, has promoted interoperability and compatibility among HDTV cameras, digital video recorders, and monitors from different vendors to some extent.

With the security system gradually becoming integrated, standardization has become one of the topics that have attracted much attention. As the voice of the video surveillance system standards continues, the controversy is also surging.

With the arrival of the era of millions of high-definition surveillance cameras, the standards for video surveillance systems are concentrated on “high-definition”. What impact will the HD standards have on the industry? When is the HD standard most suitable? What is the basis for development? Who will formulate it? There are many opinions in the industry and there are considerable disputes. This article will consider this series of issues slightly.

The implementation of standards: the same pros and cons

HD is the mainstream trend of future video surveillance. The future HD standards will have a profound impact on the entire video surveillance field. From the current point of view, the impact of this unified standard on the security industry is the coexistence of advantages and disadvantages.

Prior to the formation of HD standards, due to the compatibility of front-end products and back-end equipment, if the products of HD manufacturers are relatively simple, it is difficult to apply them to actual security projects. This forced HD manufacturers to develop a full range of front-end cameras, such as high-definition infrared, high-definition low-definition, high-definition wide-dynamic, high-definition camera and HD dome, etc., and also need to develop a corresponding series of back-end ancillary equipment , such as: PDVR (PureDigitalVideoRecorder) or high-definition NVR, hybrid DVR, high-definition video wall decoder and so on.

In addition, manufacturers can't just be simple product manufacturers, they must also provide high-definition total solutions. Because the interaction and collaboration between upstream semiconductor manufacturers and high-definition manufacturers will be limited before the unified standards are not formed, it is inconvenient for semiconductor manufacturers to assist HD manufacturers to provide a full range of high-definition front-end and back-end device solutions, which makes the technical threshold of high-definition video surveillance more effective. High, manufacturers must have more powerful overall strength.

This shows that the temporary lack of high-definition standards, such as "burdock" to stimulate the role of domestic security companies change from the analog monitoring era of electronic processing and manufacturers into high-tech R & D manufacturers, and ultimately promote the Chinese security industry reshuffle. It is not difficult to predict that after high-tech high-tech baptism, domestic security monitoring equipment manufacturers will gradually move toward high concentration from the numerous, uneven, orderly spreads in the past, and the overall strength will increase. This is beneficial to the development of China's security industry.

If the unified standards are formed early, it will lead to a substantial reduction in the technical barriers of the entire industry. Even if an electronic processing factory does not have a strong core technology R&D capability, it has the opportunity to enter the digital million HD competition. Because there is a unified standard, there is no compatibility issue, and camera manufacturers and video recorder manufacturers can even "go old and do not contact each other" and go each way. At the same time, there will be a large number of high-definition camera and high-definition video recorders on the market. At the same time, chip companies and IT digital camera companies will inevitably be involved in the production of high-definition security products. The trade unions will be more detailed.

As the product compatibility between manufacturers is stronger, this seems to be beneficial to the engineering firm, but it is also unfavorable. There are many high-definition technologies with low thresholds and high-definition manufacturers, which will inevitably lead to severe homogenization of HD products. Homogeneity will inevitably lead to price wars, and price warfare will inevitably lead to cutting corners and quality risks. This creates a vicious chain reaction, which may cause future security digital high-definition markets to be as chaotic as the analog era. Through the foregoing analysis, the formation of a unified standard, although beneficial to the chip and the camera manufacturers, a single high-definition product manufacturers and weak security research and development strength of electronic processing plants, but not conducive to China's security out of "Made in China", to "created in China "It is also not conducive to the maturity of the security industry and market norms."