Finding the Right Technology to Unlock Cloud and Mobile Surveillance

Businesses have listened to staff and abandoned in-house developed tools in favor of consumer products and ubiquitous software-as-a-service (SaaS) capabilities. They want to exploit the benefits that extensive R&D and manufacturing can bring and are willing to trade off the minor compromises that come with standardized solutions. Also, security managers are starting to ask why sites can’t be secured in the time it takes to add a Dropcam to their home network…

The surveillance industry is yet to make a wholesale shift to adopt consumer technology, but more optimized, agile and cost-effective solutions will be hard to resist for long. Users are looking to “wireless video” to access the benefits of lower deployment costs, rapid rollout and redeployment. They also want to adopt cloud services to cut capital expenditure and scale operational costs up and down, as their surveillance needs change. But there are plenty of challenges to overcome.