Questions · Video software
How is a VMS licensed?
The normal way is paying per channel, that is, per connected camera, plus a base licence for the system. On top of that structure each manufacturer adds its own: product tiers with different functions, separate licences for redundancy, for integrations with other systems, for analytics or for each operator position.
There are two details that change the budget and do not appear in the first offer. One: what counts as a camera. A multisensor with several lenses usually consumes several licences, and on a project with many of them that can be a big difference. Two: what is paid for separately. A system that is cheap per channel with site federation, redundancy and the access module invoiced separately ends up somewhere else entirely.
That is why comparing platforms is done with the same scope written down: same cameras, same workstations, same integrations, same redundancy and the same horizon of years of maintenance. Comparing price per channel on its own is the easiest way to get it wrong.
Where it is set out in full.
All the questions.
Five hundred and forty-four, grouped by topic. Each with its own page.
Get started
See it working.
A written answer is enough to decide whether it interests you. To know whether it works at your site you have to see it on a real scene, with the image as it is and, on top of it, what the system understands from it. That is on the IRIS Neural website, which is the group's product.