Edge Storage with flexible retrieval

In video surveillance, Edge Storage is a technology that stores video and audio recordings in onboard storage media inside cameras. An onboard storage consists of memory cards, built-in flash memory, or hard drives.

Milestone XProtect Corporate, XProtect Expert and XProtect Professional+ support retrieving recordings from the camera’s Edge Storage media after system failures, on events, by time schedules, or by manual requests from users of the XProtect Smart Client. Using Edge Storage, cameras can function as failover/redundancy devices and increase the overall availability of the video system. Cameras can also function as the primary recording device where the XProtect VMS’ recording server only retrieves the recordings per configured settings, defined rules, or when manually requested by the users of the system.

In this document, the three XProtect products that support Edge Storage (XProtect Corporate, XProtect Expert and XProtect Professional+) are referred to as “XProtect VMS products”.