Video Management Systems (VMS) serve as the user-interface for commanding and controlling Video Surveillance Systems. These systems are comprised of imagers, recording devices, extended storage, intelligent analytics, and user display and control interfaces (monitors, video walls, and keyboards). Today, there are two different ways to deploy VMS: hardware and software.
Software solutions were developed to be deployed on a customer’s hardware, and require significant expertise and technical resources to install and implement. To simplify this process and provide more purpose-based systems, hardware-based VMS appliances are now available and gaining in popularity. These special purpose-built appliances have high-end video rendering hardware and extended I/O capabilities for sub system integrations.
