The end of DVR in Video Surveillance

The end of DVR in Video Surveillance 

People are moving away from outdated DVRs in analog CCTV world to a more standardized and scalable IP video storage environment. The trends which are paving way for the demise of DVR in video surveillance field are as follows-

Edge Storage significance- People are nowadays going with the best available technology for their surveillance needs and are showing a lot of interest on edge based surveillance cameras. For this reason, IP camera vendors are getting busy in increasing the storage capacity of their SD/MicroSD Card driven network cameras. In next five years, there is a possibility that IP cameras with 1TB on-board video storage will be available to serve the purpose of Edge based video surveillance. There is a leeway that these edge storage enabled cameras can be used as standalone surveillance devices or in conjugation with a centrally located video storage solution, in order to achieve failover redundancy.

Network Attached Storage high availability will also play a vital role in the demise of the DVR. Interestingly, this deployment can be used in conjugation as a standalone archiving solution or in conjugation with an edge based network device. In case of small surveillance projects, both SD card and NAS storage systems will be good deployment solutions. Usually, these solutions will be a perfect match to analog technology deployment standards employed in retail stores or in offices.

Lower cost per Gigabyte of storage drives is the next trend which may pave way for the death of DVR. IT sector will find a strong focus from big data manufacturers on physical security and its associated video management system plus video analytics. The need for longer video storage periods and higher quality of video will also increase the need of higher storage capacity devices. People will then have the flexibility to just dump the appliance and go with reference architecture from the server manufacture. Again this centralized storage approach will also pair up with edge or intermediary secondary storage such as decentralized cameras, which are a perfect solution in environments where failover and bandwidth issues remain as main criterion.

Migration to cloud by IT sector will also pave way for the demise of DVR, as hosted video surveillance services will be on high demand. With existing partnerships in between software, camera hardware and cloud service providers getting strong; a fast, easily accessible and scalable solution for network video will be on high demand. Multi-location gas stations, retail sectors and quick server organizations have already become patrons of cloud based video surveillance storage. Seeing the secure central access enabled video approach, many large and mid-range organizations which have operations in geographically separated environments will go for cloud approach. As cloud based video surveillance cuts down the number of IT staff, its craze will double up by end of 2021.

So, presently for the above said reasons, the demise of DVR can predicted for sure. Feel free to speak up your mind on the said trends and let us know your opinion on DVRs existence in future of video surveillance.