Purpose of video compression in your security system

Surveillance industry has given us several options to keep our property safe. All of us know about CCTV cameras and video door phone. But, very less people are aware of some hidden technologies. These technologies are meant to enhance the quality of the data that is being saved and are known as video compression. Also, these tools are meant to transform the data into the size that increases their convenience of storage.

You guys must be wondering that what is a video compression and what role does it play in our surveillance systems. In easy words this system compresses the recorded video. The experts would describe this technology in technical terms. They would describe video compression technology as the mode that is largely used to reduce and remove the redundant video data. The basic purpose of this device is to reduce the size of the video, as this would help in sending them conveniently over the network to be stored on computer disk.

Now most of you must be thinking that this would damage the video quality but it would actually not happen. This problem was already sensed by the experts so they came up with tools and solutions to keep the video quality intact. While video compression two methods are typically used to reduce the size of video

·         Lossy compression:

Lossy compression focuses on reducing the size by identifying and removing unnecessary features. But, it takes care that this loss is undetectable.

·         Lossless compression:

This is another method of reducing the size of data that is transmitted to the storage unit. A good thing here is that it doesn’t involve the loss of any data.

These two basic techniques are extremely important as it is impossible to transmit and store the video in its original size. Compression is considered to be a very useful technique. By reducing the size of data to be stored, it enhances the efficiency of the storage unit and this is the basic purpose of this technique.  

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