A leading supplier of MDVRs in the transit market,March Networks works with all of the major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America, as well as several U.K.-based manufacturers. In the assembly line environment in which OEMs operate, ease of installation, just-in-time delivery and timely technical support are critical.The big North American manufacturers are understandably margin-driven and focused on productivity, says Paul Colston,March Networks’OEM sales manager for transportation.

Video surveillance has never been used more extensively or strategically than in today’s marketplace. Organizations that have relied on video to help maintain effective security are now stepping up to exciting new capabilities. Networked video solutions for loss prevention, risk management, marketing, training, operations and other applications are helping organizations protect profits and deliver valuable business intelligence to a wider range of stakeholders across their enterprise.

VideoSphere™ network cameras combine high resolution, real-time video delivery with outstanding bandwidth and storage efficiency. The award-winning family of fixed and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras provides fully digital video for unmatched image quality, even in challenging lighting conditions. It supports a range of optional video analytics and other capabilities that lower total cost of ownership.

The VideoSphere™ Video Management System (VMS) is a powerful software application that runs on industry-standard servers and supports the recording, storage, retrieval and management of all video and audio evidence. It enables organizations to deploy an all-IP or hybrid analog/IP video network environment that is open, distributed and fully scalable, and to benefit from significant infrastructure and administrative cost-savings.

The VideoSphere™ family of encoders from March Networks integrates analog video cameras into an IP network as part of an industry-standard video management and storage environment. Available in 1, 4 and 16-channel models, they enable organizations to leverage existing investments in cameras and cabling and migrate to all-IP video networking cost-effectively.

VideoSphere™ Visual Intelligence is a scalable video surveillance software suite that delivers advanced management, investigation and reporting tools across all-IP and analog environments. The suite enables organizations to improve loss prevention, liability management, asset protection, and customer and employee safety. It is also compatible with all March Networks™ R5 video solutions.

Inventory shrinkage costs food retailers billions of dollars each year. Whether related to fraudulent returns, shoplifting, coupon abuse or other criminal activity, loss prevention has emerged as a key priority for most organizations.

The true cost of video surveillance technology is considerably more than the initial procurement costs. Operating, maintaining and replacing a system adds significantly to the total life cycle cost, and ultimately determines whether an investment is a sound one or not. System performance and reliability, which are generally reflected in the initial cost, directly impact life cycle costs. This paper will help decision-makers evaluate on-board CCTV systems objectively, and make recommendations to public authorities supported by cost-benefit comparisons of different products over the duration of their planned use.

Digital video recording has largely replaced analog methods for recording video in corporate security and transaction recording applications. This document outlines procedures to ensure the admissibility of digital video images captured with a March Networks NVR / DVR system when submitted in support of evidence in a court of law.

Many of the recommendations in this document follow both the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations document, "Definitions and Guidelines for the Use of Imaging Technologies in the Criminal Justice System" as well as the U.K. House of Lords, Science and Technology Select Committee "Digital Images as Evidence".

Like any data transmission over a digital network, digital video is encoded as binary 1's and 0's. It has a source and a destination, and it requires an end-user application to manage the data. Traditional data, like spreadsheets, is different from multimedia data, such as video and audio, in the quantity of information transmitted. Like most data, video can be transmitted as a single clip, however it can also be streamed with no apparent beginning or end. Being able to handle this data over local and wide area networks presents a new challenge to enterprise IT departments today. This paper introduces the various technologies and standards related to networked digital video.