With SMAVIA, the CCTV manufacturer Dallmeier says it’s taking one more critical step closer to the IT industry.
SMAVIA is technology for the recording of video images and streams in a variety of image compression and transmission codecs (H.264, MPEG-4, MJPEG). Besides standard definitions, SMAVIA also supports Full HD (1080p) and up to 8 megapixel. Company founder Dieter Dallmeier says: “For the first time in our company’s history, we are in a position to market our expertise in the realm of recording technology uncoupled from any given hardware platform: SMAVIA is available for purchase in a “software only” variant. As the name suggests, customers only buy the software – this includes both the recording and the management software – and can then install it on their own servers. In addition, there are special appliances, that is to say Dallmeier hardware platforms, on which the software has already been preloaded.” The SMAVIA Recording Server Software can be used on a range of hardware platforms; on special video recording servers made by Dallmeier, or as a stand-alone software on standard servers or PCs. The product is compatible both Linux and Windows. The corresponding management software SMAVIA Viewing Client offers an interface for the processing of live pictures and recorded pictures. With the company’s Security Management System SeMSy, SMAVIA supports cascaded recording systems with 2,000 video channels and more. ONVIF-compliant cameras can be configured and recorded with SMAVIA.
SMAVIA also supports the proven PRemote-HD function. PRemote-HD is a method developed by Dallmeier that uses transcoding to enable the transmission of HD and megapixel streams even at low bandwidths the company says. PRemote-HD is particularly useful the makers say for locations where images need to be recorded at high quality but have only a low-bandwidth network available, for example DSL networks with a 128 kbit upload. As opposed to standard transmission methods such as Dual Streaming that allow users to only change quality settings for the transmission of live images, PRemote-HD also offers a bandwidth-saving transmission of recorded images. Therefore, it is not only possible to view live images, but also to evaluate recordings over great distances in highest resolution. No license is required for the Viewing Client. The entire handling of software variants and license dongle is eliminated. The licensing is based centrally on the Recording Server.
