Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is the TimeSight product a video management system, or a storage management tool?

Actually, TimeSight's system is a video management system, which includes the industry's most advanced storage management for video surveillance data. As all video good video management systems, we collect data from dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of cameras; our users have an intuitive, flexible interface which can show multiple cameras on a screen, allow them to fast forward/rewind, zoom in, and find video from past times instantly, and can track 'events' such as motion or other business-related events.

However, only TimeSight has the ability to increasingly compress stored video over time as it gets older, less valuable, and less relevant, thereby saving up to 90% of the storage needed by other systems. In addition, TimeSight allows 100% capture of video from every second of every minute of every day, without needing to go to risky 'record-on-motion' modes, so that you are fully protected from any claim yet don't tie up storage with hours of non-motion video.

So the answer is: both. A state-of-the-art networked video management system, which embeds the leading storage management technology to allow the move to higher resolution and longer retention without having to pay the cost of additional servers/storage.

What is Motion Optimized Recording (MORe)?

Motion Optimized Recording (MORe): TimeSight's advanced motion detection applies specific resolution, frame rate, and retention policies to motion and non-motion events, enabling users to store all video on less storage than riskier record on motion only approaches.

What is Video Lifecycle Management?

Video Lifecycle Management (VLM) is the practice of reducing the cost of storing surveillance data over time based on risk, business rules and events. The fact is that Time mitigates Risk; as time passes and significant adverse events don't happen (violent crime, major theft, terrorist attack, etc.), the video declines in value as it is now protecting against lower cost/risk events, such as pilfering, or longer term events such as slip-and-fall claims and compliance breach.

Hence, if a user can reduce the size of video as it ages, and as that user moves from High Risk to Moderate Risk to Lower Risk time periods, they are marrying the COST with the RETURN much better.

What is dynamic H.264 compression? Have you altered the industry standard?

TimeSight Video Surveillance Appliances implement industry-standard H.264 compression. However, because our appliances are the industry's first to incorporate video lifecycle management, an emerging best-practice, we maximize the effectiveness of H.264 compression over time. Through a user-defined schedule, which can be configured separately for non-motion or motion-based video capture, we reapply increasing amounts of compression during the video retention period. This "dynamic" application of H.264 compression reduces video file sizes as risk diminishes over time - reducing storage usage.