APRIL 1--The Imaging Solutions Group (ISG Rochester, NY; www.isgchips.com) has announced the availability of cameras with on-board JPEG/Motion-JPEG compression to reduce bandwidth in the Internet-monitoring, security & surveillance industries, and military applications.
The security & surveillance industry is asking for higher and higher resolution images. The need for JPEG/Motion-JPEG compression is growing rapidly. Individual frame data are preferred to MPEG-based algorithms because of ease of use in reconstructing individual frame data for law-enforcement purposes. The existing infrastructure for the security & surveillance industry is based on CCTV standards. They are now beginning to migrate toward 10/100 Ethernet solutions. Both of these standards have limited bandwidth for today's higher-resolution video cameras. While elaborate video systems exist, they are primarily proprietary in nature and very costly.
"The industry needs solutions that fit within the constraints of existing and near term technologies that are low-cost and easily integrated into today's infrastructure," says ISG's Kerry Van Iseghem. The Imaging Solutions Group is designing and manufacturing solutions that target these markets. The ISG LightWise Camera series is becoming popular in the security & surveillance industries.
