The banking, retail, commercial, institutional and industrial sectors have all adopted digital video security systems at a breakneck pace. Traditional, analog video recorders have been superseded by DVRs offering greater flexibility and functionality. Unfortunately, these advancements have also created a misperception that because the system is in place that the video data will be there and will be useable.

   
The responsibility of assuring that all system components are operating properly at all times has, until now, been overlooked primarily due to a lack of a comprehensive diagnostic tool.
 

DSD™ ‘s patented multi-platform technology is a centralized control system that brings a level of automation that has been missing until now by verifying the health of a video-security network on a scheduled basis. It alerts you of failures with speed and precision to help you maintain total security coverage. By offering performance analysis functions and a new level of control to the operators of large systems, it ensures that all components are running correctly, and acts as a “system operator”.

 
Life, safety, and other mission-critical applications depend upon video security systems operating at peak performance. Bottom line dollars also depend on video security operating at peak performance. Moreover, a properly functioning system provides a wealth of data that can be used for analysis and make better business decisions.
   

In many organizations, DVRs continue to operate as isolated components and not as an integrated system. It is impractical and costly to manually monitor thousands of DVRs and tens of thousands of cameras in enterprise-scale video-security systems. This is especially true when dealing with multiple brands within the system. In no situation can operators be expected to manually verify each individual component to determine the health of the system or recognize if a camera image has changed, either by equipment failure or by intent. Some functions can only be accessed through software, and failures are often only discovered when attempting to retrieve data from the defective device.

   

Existing applications are limited to monitoring basic operating parameters and are more concerned with ensuring network health rather than good image rendition. A systems-based solution, like DSD™, scales to support tens of thousands of components and provides system-wide visibility.  DSD™ not only provides the overall status and trends of the system, but also indicates if the image quality is acceptable or if the camera has been displaced from its original position, or has been obstructed.