Video Surveillance in the Cloud?
This addresses cost and scalability issues for organizations implementing video surveillance, but it is incremental as it primarily reviews existing cloud services without introducing new methods.
The research tackled the problem of high costs and complexity in managing high-resolution video surveillance systems by exploring cloud computing solutions, concluding that while it is possible to architect such a system using cloud technologies, it is more expensive and requires further review of legal and security issues.
A high-resolution video surveillance management system incurs huge amounts of storage and network bandwidth. The current infrastructure required to support a high resolution video surveillance management system (VMS) is expensive and time consuming to plan, implement and maintain. With the recent advances in cloud technologies, opportunity for the utilization of virtualization and the opportunity for distributed computing techniques of cloud storage have been pursued on the basis to find out if the various cloud computing services that are available can support the current requirements to a high resolution video surveillance management system. The research concludes, after investigating and comparing various Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing provides what is possible to architect a VMS using cloud technologies; however, it is more expensive and it will require additional reviews for legal implications, as well as emerging threats and countermeasures associated with using cloud technologies for a video surveillance management system