Questions · Video software
Is the cloud any good for video?
It is, and what decides it is the upload and the number of cameras. Uploading continuous video from many cameras over an ordinary line is not realistic, so cloud systems work in one of two ways: recording on a local unit and uploading only what matters, or uploading everything but at very modest rates. The first is what you see in large installations; the second, in small, spread-out sites.
Where the cloud clearly wins is with many small identical sites: shops, offices, branches. There is no server to maintain at each one, the manufacturer does the updates and remote access comes solved without opening anything on each site's network. Where it loses is in large single-site installations with many cameras and many days of retention, where local storage works out far cheaper.
Before deciding there are four questions worth getting answered in writing: which countries the servers are in and what that means for data protection, what exactly happens when the line goes down, how much upload bandwidth really gets used at peak, and what you take with you —and in what format— the day you want to change supplier.
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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.