Published on 01 June, 2022
Video management middleware solution is a software system that lies between various brands front-end video devices and the applications running on it. Essentially functioning as hidden video translation layer, middleware enables video communication and video data management for distributed applications. It’s sometimes called video plumbing, as it connects two ends together so video data and databases can be easily passed between the “pipe” for various applications.
Easy deployment and saving cost
With the progress of the security technology, some old security infrastructures need to be upgraded as well, such as community security project, school security projects. If replacing all the front-end cameras, it will cost a lot. The most economical and efficient way is to add new functional cameras at most important monitoring spot, while still keep some old cameras. Thus the video management middleware is needed. Users only need to install middleware software on the computer. By the video management middleware, users can aggregate and manage the video resources from various brands front-end video device without replacing the original monitoring equipment and deployment, thus making full use of old devices and greatly reduce the cost of video integration and application.
Aggregates all the video resources from front-end video devices, then transport standard video data to the application system
What’s more, nowadays many application system focus more on practical applications based on different fields, providing more value beyond security. Set chain store security project for example, besides products assets security, health and safety of employees and customers, application system will also provide marketing figures of most favorite products, crowd statistic figures, analyze the change of passenger flow etc to help manager to know the situation of each stores, adjust the sales strategy according to market changes. Therefore instead of investing a lot of energy in video aggregation by their own, application system companies prefer to focus more energy on application-level development. Thus video management middleware place as key part to aggregate all the video resources from front-end video devices, then transport standard video data to the application system for incorporation as part of their own video solution.
As video management middleware mainly act as plumbing, it acquires, gathers and manages the video data from external devices (IP cameras and encoders), stores video in a video archive, re-streams video to the application system or clients in live mode as well as on demand. Set Daxun video management middleware platform SVMS as an example, it provide following features:
It can easily acquire the video data from various brands of IP cameras and encoders. Up till now it has supported thousands of devices from a large number of manufactures, such as Axis, Sony, Bosch,Hikvision, Dahua, Huawei,Uniview etc.
At the same time It offers standard video protocols and media formats for the third-party seamlessly integration. For example, GB/T28181, RTSP,RTMP, HTTP-FLV,HLS, Web Socket etc are provided to push to the upper application platform.
It supports all kinds of clouds, such as Aliyun Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu AI Cloud, JingDong Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Kingsoft etc. For more details, please take a look: middleware for video surveillance.
Following is the picture to help you understand more about how security video management middleware works.
