SECURITY talks with systems integrator, North American Video, Brick, N.J., about the essentials of systems integration. The following is a Q & A session with Cynthia Freschi, president of North American Video.
Q: What types of standards, platforms and protocols do you recommend for your customer?
A: At North American Video, our system design parameters are dedicated by the user’s specific needs and applications. Every customer has different needs that are based on a number of factors, which are limited to current CCTV equipment and specified platforms required by the IT departments. Today, network compatibility and available bandwidth are increasingly recurring concerns as users are starting to look at IP-based systems. This is the direction that the security industry seems to be headed in at this current time.
Q: Similarly, what type of camera equipment and compression schemes do you recommend? Or does each particular application demand a unique setup specific to that project?