Recording in camera’s Edge Storage

Advantages:

• Reduces or eliminates the need for a central recording server and storage solution

• The network is not burdened by video and audio being continuously transferred to a central recording server to be recorded

• Enables recording of video in higher quality than what the network connection to the camera can carry since video and audio retrieval can be limited to relevant sequences that can be retrieved later at a slower speed, instead of a constant stream of video and audio that may or may not be recorded

Disadvantages:

• Lower reliability since cameras are more likely to fail, be stolen or vandalized - in which case all recordings might be lost

• Edge Storage may not have the needed capacity to store video recordings in the desired quality for the desired period

• Users cannot view recorded video from the camera if the network connection to the camera is down

• Event-based video recording is more complicated to configure in Edge Storage-enabled cameras compared to a centrally configured VMS. For example, controlling when to record in multiple Edge Storage-enabled cameras based on events from third-party solutions, for access control, building management systems or other purposes

• Slow retrieval and playback of recordings stored in the camera during incident investigation, making the investigation process slower and more cumbersome