64CH/720p IP Camera Surveillance Solution Description Feature Requirements: 64ch/720p IP cameras live view 64ch/720p IP cameras recording data centralized archiving Simultaneous 16ch/720p video decoding and output to public view Real-time response to alert and event from on-site device Centralized management of entire surveillance system System Planning: Allocate 3 switches based on 100Mbps and 1 switch based on 1000Mbps for 64 IP cameras. 64 IP cameras in groups connected to three 100M switches through 100M Ethernet ports; while three 100M switches connect to one 1000M switch through 1000M Ethernet ports. All servers for CMS connect to one 1000M switch through 1000M Ethernet network adapters. Required Unisight components: Data Center, Advanced Unit, Gateway, Digital Matrix, NVR, Client. Data Center: Provide data service and management based on a robust and versatile advanced database as a primary core component for the entire system Advanced Unit: Provide global time synchronization service for all on-site servers Gateway: Proxy to transmit command and video stream for bandwidth management (preventing an overload) Digital Matrix: Decoding compression video stream to output to public view for display NVR: Archive recording data through network, which optionally connects to SAN/NAS/RAID Alert-monitoring Client: Respond to alert, alarm and event from on-site server, and review status info and define various response modes Video-monitoring Client: Provide remote video live view, playback and parameters setup for IP cameras
Surveillance Topology
Interpretation: 1. Gateway Server utilizes three 1000Mbps Ethernet network adapters, which are individually distributed into 3 different subnets: Adapter 1 and NVR Server in the same subnet; Adapter 2 and IP camera in the same subnet; Adapter 3 and Datacenter/Time Sync Server/Clients in the same subnet 2. Data Center and Time Sync (Advanced Unit) server should run on the same physical server 3. Real-time monitoring and managing of IP cameras 4. Respond to and process alerts and events from on-site devices 5. TV video input directly connect to VGA/DVI interface of Digital Matrix Server 6. 100M switch must connect to 1000M switch through 1000M Ethernet port
Hardware Configuration Data Center and Advanced Unit (Time Sync) are recommended to be installed and run on the same physical server. Gateway, Digital Matrix, NVR, Alert-monitoring and Video-monitoring Client should be installed and run on different physical servers. Since the limitation of network bandwidth, in principle the number of network connections between on-site devices and CMS Client or Matrix server cannot be more than 64. Gateway Server needs to be setup on 3 network adapters based on 1000Mbps to distribute all data stream and control network bandwidth. Components Hardware Configurations Operation System Notes Datacenter Server Datacenter.exe Advanced Unit Server AdvancedUnit.exe Video Proxy Server Gateway.exe Digital Matrix Server DigitalMatrix.exe NVR Server NVR.exe Monitoring Clients Client.exe CPU: P4 3.0 or higher Memory: 1G or higher Video Card: Null Network Adapter: Null Memory: 4G Video Card: Null Network Adapter: 3 Ethernet Memory: 2G or higher Video Card: 2, based on GT220 chipset or higher Memory: 4G Video card: Null Memory: 2G or higher Video Card: 1, based on GT220 chipset or higher On the hardware configuration of these 2 components, stability is more important than performance. *Null means no special requirements, the same applies below 3 network adapters in different subnets separately exchange data into on-site IP cameras, NVR Server, Digital Matrix Server and Clients 4 VGA outputs using 2 video cards, connect to 4 monitor video inputs to display 16chs 720P video. To improve decoding performance, we suggest to use the video cards based on nvidia chipset Capable of connecting to NAS or IP SAN network archiving device, which is uniformly included and managed by CMS Capable of connecting up to 16chs 720P video on this configuration. The configuration of video clients is up to the amount of simultaneous video connections, on which more connections required, and higher hardware configuration. nvidia chipset based-on recommendation to improve display performance. Alert and video monitoring client uniformly use the same application, Client.exe, as well as IE mode is used to manage system Remote Clients IE or Client.exe User-defined The max amount of connections is up to the hardware performance and network bandwidth
*Video Network Bandwidth Calculation 100M Ethernet network flux expressed in 8Mbytes/s, and 1000M Ethernet network in 24Mbytes/s. Single channel of video bandwidth calculation below offered just as reference only. Actual bandwidth usage will be determined by stream settings (framerate/compression) and video complexity (how much motion/how many colors). Video Resolution Bandwidth Notes CIF 5 kilobytes/s 0.5Mbps upper limit 4CIF 15 kilobytes/s 1.5Mbps upper limit VGA 12 kilobytes/s 1.2Mbps upper limit 720P 30 kilobytes/s 3Mbps upper limit 1080P 40 kilobytes/s 4Mbps upper limit *Actually measure the video stream bandwidth: Playback the recorded files of current channel, and check the current value of video bandwidth parameters displayed in the Information Window, and add 10% for network overhead calculations as actual network bandwidth usage since there are control commands being transmitted along with video streams while connecting to live video.