Disqus - Latest Comments for cuiterwyk

Re: Top 5 Reasons Analog Cameras are Easier to Install than IP

Chris Uiterwyk — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:34:12 -0000

Hi John,

Six months ago I would have agreed with you but I don’t believe it's the case today. Between the ‘auto discovery’ feature offered by many VMS solutions and the ‘auto focus’ capability now offered in IP cameras makes the installation process easy. For arguments sake let’s agree IP cameras require a bit more effort and knowledge to install and setup. Wouldn’t you agree that image quality, megapixel resolutions, and built-in intelligence are just a few advantages that outweigh the increased level of effort required to install IP cameras?

Cheers,
Christopher S. Uiterwyk
Co-Founder / CEO
www.ipConfigure.com

Re: How Importance is Easy to Use VMS Systems?

Chris Uiterwyk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:19:24 -0000

Great comments... UI design is as important as the core features of a product and does not come easy. Steve Jobs had a design team spend six months "refining the scrollbars" in OS X.

Cheers,
Chris

Re: How Importance is Easy to Use VMS Systems?

Chris Uiterwyk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:29:10 -0000

Thanks John.

Re: How Importance is Easy to Use VMS Systems?

Chris Uiterwyk — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:22:55 -0000

John,

ipConfigure in known for being very simple and intuitive to use and setup. In fact it was a key feature in the US Postal Systems decision to select ipConfigure. I'd be happy to provide full access to both the user and admin via our popular browser interface. For access please email me direct at Christopher@ipConfigure.com.

Thanks,
Chris Uiterwyk
Co-founder & CEO

Re: ISC West 2009 Announcement Directory

Chris Uiterwyk — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:45:39 -0000

John,

1. I tell customers daily that IP Video Surveillance is not for every application. DVR’s absolutely have a fit in smaller applications. Above 16 cameras I believe IP is the better choice assuming the customer has the technical resources to support it. Are you pro IP video surveillance these days?

2. I’m afraid some of the content you reference from IP and Analog companies is contaminated by their corporate agenda's. If you spent a week with me on the road visiting end-users I believe you would hear a story that is more in alignment with my previous comments.

3. SAAS is less than 5 years away. My reference to Moore's law applies to the technology (integrated circuits) required inside devices used to move data (switches, routers, etc.). ipConfigure spent over a year with AT&T, Sun Microsystems, and Accenture on a SAAS proof of concept. I can tell you the infrastructure and technology required for success is here today.

Cheers!

Chris Uiterwyk
ipConfigure CEO

http://www.ipconfigure.com

Re: ISC West 2009 Announcement Directory

Chris Uiterwyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:14:09 -0000

Hello John & Severin,

ISC-W was a good show for ipConfigure this year. The lead scans were down about 15% but quality was up significantly. The customer base was much more educated over last year..

Three comments:

1. "Lack of innovation this year" Statistics say less than 20% of all new surveillance projects are IP today which I translate to mean that "less than 20% of the security industry understands IP". To date I believe innovation has out paced adoption over the past 5 years and manufactures are going to limit the valuable resources required to develop new technologies as long as the industry is slow to adopt.

2. "Business is Dead" For the traditional manufactures this is true because they failed to embrace change and when the economy dipped they were crushed. However, it couldn't be further from the truth for ipConfigure and many other manufacturers, particularly manufactures focused on IP based solutions. I would suggest that consultants stop basing their information on their old guard contacts and start listening to the smaller successful companies.

3. “SAAS has no future” Severin and I have spoken at great length about this topic. I can tell you that it’s just a matter of time and bandwidth, Moore’s Law says this will happen sooner rather than later.

Regards,
Chris

ipConfigure CEO
www.ipconfigure.com

Re: Top 5 Problems in Video Surveillance Storage

Chris Uiterwyk — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:20:56 -0000

Hi John,

30 fps via an interlaced analog camera is equal to a 15fps progressive scan IP camera. If the consumer is educated on this fact it could help to reduce FPS requirements and drive down storage costs.

http://www.axis.com/product...

-Chris

Re: Impact of Recession Starts to Hit Video Surveillance

Chris Uiterwyk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:00:41 -0000

John,

I think the economy is just one factor in this reshuffling of the deck. The fact that IP is brining new and cheaper alternatives to the industry is the other big factor. The days of a monopoly based surveillance industry are over. Firms like March need to reinvent their business model or cut their losses and find an exit strategy.

I can tell you that the IP camera manufactures indicate their growth is at exponential rates over last year, this is also true for ipConfigure. If the economy were in better shape then the exponential number would be higher?

Chris Uiterwyk
ipConfigure Co-founder

Re: Top 3 Problems with Choosing Open Systems : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:10:30 -0000

Sure, the term 'Open' can have many meanings but generally speaking when a company sells a decoupled software solution that leverage off-the-shelf hardware they are considered open. Going further there are different levels of openness that ipConfigure, Milestone/ONSSI, and Genetec offer.

Re: Top 3 Problems with Choosing Open Systems : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:01:32 -0000

John,

Readers can replace every reference of 'Milestone' in the above content with ipConfigure or ONSSI for that matter. That is the great thing about IP based video is when solution leverage off-the-shelf servers, switches, software and cameras they are generally considered open.

Cheers,
Chris

Re: Top 3 Problems with Choosing Open Systems : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:51:23 -0000

Infomercial?

Re: IP vs CCTV : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:05:32 -0000

I am mistaken on the understanding of your product and I apologize. Can you confirm that the VideoRouter supports Milestone/ONSSI, Genetec, Broadware/CISCO?

Re: IP vs CCTV : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:36:08 -0000

The basis of IP video surveillance is interoperability and open standards. A device that only works with the same manufacturers products is not a good solution. Any manufacturer can create product that works only with their equipment (see Pelco), the real winners are those who offer interoperability. (no apology necessary, your point was well made)

Re: IP vs CCTV : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:22:53 -0000

Shame on you John!!! You know what I meant!

Re: IP vs CCTV : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:10:38 -0000

The VideoRouter is proprietary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... to the VideoProtein product line and not open to other surveillance software vendors. I would avoid proprietary hardware at all costs.

Re: Top 5 IP Camera Problems : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:02:43 -0000

CPU resources are typically the bottleneck for IP based surveillance systems. Storage and network speeds are a function of architecture and $. Example: The Sun Microsystems x4500 supports a network -> disk I/O of up to 8 gigabits or 1 gigabyte per second. That translates to 18,000 frames of 640x480 JPG frames per second or 1,800 cameras recording 640x480 resolution @ 10fps in MJPEG.

The primary role of the CPU is to detect / evaluate motion in video streams. Some software has a hard limit of 64 cameras per server (ONSSI) while others (ipConfigure) are only limited by CPU resources. The $64k question is how is it calculated? I will answer the $64k question in a IPVideoMarket report this next week.

Re: Top 5 IP Camera Problems : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:51:35 -0000

While I do agree with 'CameraMan' about storage being cheap I don’t agree with the use of the 'consumer' grade storage (Drobo drives) which leverage slow Firewire or USB connectivity.

His point would have been better made with a 'commercial' grade solution like the Sun x4500 which offers a storage capacity of up to 48TB, 8GB network to disk I/O, in a 4U chassis for less than $1/GB.

http://www.sun.com/servers/...

Re: Examining Axis NVR Software (Cam Station) : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:50:07 -0000

Axis continues to loose focus in the interest of greed. The move to expand camera station to include up to 50 cameras encroaches on their Video Management Software partners (Milestone, ipConfigure, Cisco, etc) who are the same companies responsible for generating more than ½ of the annual demand for Axis product. Because of this and IP camera commoditization Axis will loose market share in 2008-2009.

Re: Why Centralized NVR Recording Won't Happen : IP Video Market Info

Chris Uiterwyk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:56:37 -0000

Camera based storage is effective as a redundant medium to server based recording, ultimately camera based storage is vulnerable to camera theft.