askALICE

THE PROBLEM

Traditional hard-disk only video storage solutions (even with the prices of those very hard drives continuing to decline) become extremely expensive as the amount of video retention (video surveillance storage) is needed. Being able to provide six-months or one-year [or more] of video retention – with today’s larger camera count and high-resolution quality cameras – becomes cost-prohibitive.

Many of today’s larger organizations such as hospitals, airports, university campuses, and casinos find themselves needing a video surveillance system as either a replacement for an aging CCTV system or as a brand-new installation. Often, this is in response to a growing expectation that video evidence will be available in the event of a crime, accident, or other incident.

In today’s society, the first thing a law enforcement agency or legal representative of either party in a dispute will ask for is a copy of any available video footage of the incident in question. The ability to quickly and easily provide high resolution video evidence of the incident in question will be important in narrowing down suspects in case of a crime. The same video evidence can limit the liability of an organization in case of a lawsuit.

In other cases, the need for a video surveillance system may be driven by regulatory requirements, such as in the health care industry, tort liabilities, or new cannabis laws. These requirements can be national, statewide, or local.

THE SOLUTION

Cozaint has taken the requirements of an ideal network video recording system and put together the multi-tiered video retention storage system –askALICE– to fulfill the needs of most medium to large (and very large) installations. Combining ideal specified server hardware -with innovative and professional-grade surveillance software- Cozaint has developed the most affordable, flexible, long-term video retention solution on the market that is both easy to use and maintain.

askALICE consists of a first tier of RAID-5 based hard-disk drive network attached storage (NAS) unit plus a LTO-based library.

To keep the overall costs to a minimum, once the needed video retention is calculated (submit your details below to get a custom video storage calculation), we recommend just 10% of that needed retention to be in first-tier hard disk capacity.

This will provide the video operator with the ability to have immediate access to the most recently recorded video. (Watch the 3-min demo video here.)

All of the surveillance camera video will be stored on second-tier LTO storage. The video operator will also be able to simply move the video management software (VMS) timeline scrubber bar to access any recorded video.

AskALICE comes complete with the BOBBYvms professional VMS Software, Tier-1 NAS storage, Tier-2 Storage, cables, and a 1-year warranty. — Let Cozaint provide you with a custom quote.