SECURITY: How important is software in the overall scheme of remote monitoring? Why?
PAYDAVOUSI: Software is what makes remote video monitoring possible to the masses. The cost of remote monitoring of analog video with no geography boundaries is extremely high, as it requires very high bandwidth networks. With digital video, manufacturers can use various software programs to manage digital video with regard to transmission, display and analysis of the contents in the video and index video files in industry standard database systems for future uses such as generating management reports with hyperlinks to video clips.