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MOBOTIX ... The HiRes Video Company • World's No.1 in Megapixel by Dr. Ralf Hinkel

The Market Demands Better Image Quality

When it comes to future-proof video surveillance systems, it’s not a matter of analog or digital; it’s a question of high-resolution or not.

Since HiRes video can only be implemented cost efficient (and even less expensive than any other kind of video surveillance) when decentralized network camera technology is deployed, centralized, analog, low-resolution systems will gradually
disappear from the market during the next few years.

Central Storage As A Bottleneck

It’s a fact: high-resolution video produces more data and requires a powerful storage concept. These days, video data is normally preprocessed and stored centrally on a PC with video management software or on a DVR.

Video and audio streams from all installed cameras are directed to this central device. This system is comparable to a highway at rush hour: the more cameras there are, the quicker there will be a data overflow on the PC or DVR. This means that despite HiRes cameras, the data is generally not stored in high-resolution format.

MOBOTIX Stores HiRes Cost Efficiently

MOBOTIX solves the storage bottleneck problem in a way that is currently unique yet amazingly obvious: high-resolution video images, including sound, are stored decentralized in or at the camera on flash memory media (normal 16 GB SD or CF cards, USB mass storage).

Flash memory is mature semiconductor technology without any mechanical moving parts. Thanks to its reliability, ease of use and low cost, it is the storage medium of the future.