OAAP Spotlight: CoVi Technologies delivers high-definition video without straining the network

A member of the OnGuard OpenAccess Alliance Program, CoVi Technologies of Austin, Texas offers a new twist on achieving the benefits of high-definition video. Consumers are familiar with high-definition televisions and have bought them in droves. Why is that? Because the picture quality is miles ahead of traditional TVs, and programming is now crystal clear. CoVi has harnessed the power of high-definition in their line of cameras, and has leveraged their video capture by offering video streams in six different resolutions. This gives users a choice ranging from CIF to HD on each camera. More importantly, though, customers now have the ability to monitor regular cameras in CIF, and to specifically identify on screen those areas that require high definition. By drawing a simple box around an area of interest, video within the box is now transmitted in HD, with the rest of the view in CIF, or whichever resolution was previously selected. This stands to significantly reduce bandwidth constraints that are inherent in many businesses and amplified by the prospects of Megapixel+ video.

It wasn’t long before a growing team of systems engineers set out to change the video surveillance industry. Their vision laid the groundwork for CoVi’s Total Video Qualtiy™ (TVQ) concept. TVQ integrates every component within a video surveillance system so that an image can maintain a consistently high resolution as it is transmitted, recorded, stored and shared.

Today, after extensive research, development and testing, CoVi is the first to offer a systems-based approach to high-definition video surveillance. If you compare images captured on CoVi systems to those based on older technologies, you’ll see that CoVi images remain clear at every point of contact, while others lose integrity after being transferred, downloaded and recorded, resulting in grainy images and a loss of information.

CoVi’ system-wide TVQ applications provide crisp, accurate high-definition imagery when and where it’s needed. This revolutionary improvement has changed the way security professionals plan, execute and manage information. Now, businesses, governments and individuals have a better set of tools to safeguard valuable assets, deter crime, monitor facilities, respond to security issues and provide crucial evidentiary material, resulting in a safer environment in which to live and work.

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