Adding Video Surveillance Thwarts Theft, Secures Business
Today’s business means doing more with less. For businesses, large or small, maximizing profits with less expenditure means there are more resources available to invest in future growth. VoIP has hands down delivered on its promise that networked voice and data improves communication and productivity, simplifies maintenance, and reduces equipment/monthly recurring costs.
However, a truly converged IP network also supports applications like wireless and video over IP (videoconferencing and video surveillance). How? Today, the majority of VoIP equipment is based on open standards like SIP, the application layer protocol that has emerged as the standard for controlling multimedia communication sessions like voice and video over IP. Open standards provide the flexibility to interoperate with multiple vendor equipment allowing small and medium businesses to future proof and extend the existing IP network by converging other critical business applications onto the infrastructure to increase ROI.
SIP-compatible devices today are everywhere. That includes telephone handsets, IP PBXs, IP multimedia phones, smartphones such asApple’s ( News – Alert) IPhone, and now IP surveillance cameras.Now that SIP can carry real-time video signals together with audio to enable face-to-face communications, SMBs have access to a whole new set of tools to monitor business activities, thwart theft, and ensure security and protection. According to MarketsandMarkets, a U.S.-based global market research and consulting company,tower crane, the video surveillance market is expected to grow from $11.5 billion in 2008 to $37.7 billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 20.4 percent from 2010 to 2015.