Applications

Video Surveillance Trends

The new breed of surveillance systems use IP-based networking in combination with advanced codecs and video analytics to improve situational awareness, manage business processes, and handle increasing amounts of storage and bandwidth.

This drives ever higher computational demands, with analytics deployed at the edge and/or backend, integrated with content-adaptive compression and improved event management such as video search indexing.

This increasing diversity pose a challenge to systems designers. Traditional DSPs or processors can't keep up with the performance requirements, and fixed-function ASICs can't keep up either, due to their limited flexibility to support new feature demands and the new wave of analytics.

SPI's Technology Benefits

Storm-1 solves the performance and flexibility problem by bridging the gap between ASIC efficiency and DSP flexibility. Compared to a traditional DSP, SPI delivers more than 10X the compute performance without increasing parts cost, allowing manufacturers to adopt a software-driven model and enjoy time-to-market and differentiation advantages.

Standards-based C development with embedded Linux provides a common software platform suitable for a wide range of video surveillance applications, from smart IP Cameras, to high-end DVRs and video search appliances. Available SPI and 3rd party partner software libraries, framework, and evaluation boards assist customers to quickly get to market.

DVR/NVR/Video Server Example:

Feature Highlights:

• Single-chip Linux-based solution for pre-processing, codec, analytics, display and network processing
• C code implementation without hardwired dependencies provides flexibility
• Ample processing power minimizes cost per channel and support differentiating features, such as analytics and search indexing
• 8 channels of D1 encode plus offering processing headroom
• H.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG codecs tuned for video surveillance with clarity of motion and dynamic compression depending on content
• Multi-media framework with rich API for simple system integration
• Software codecs provide guaranteed interoperability for IP Cameras
• Spot monitor preview and playback with image tiling and overlays supporting 1920x1080 and UXGA displays.
• Webserver and RTP/RTSP streaming for remote management, viewing and IP Camera support
  

IP Camera Example:

• Single-chip Linux-based solution for CMOS/CCD sensor, encode, analytics, and network processing
• Storm-1 G30 or G80 for lower cost, lower power design.
• H.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG codecs tuned for video surveillance with clarity of motion and dynamic compression depending on content
• Multiple simultaneous streams and codecs
• Ample processor headroom to support robust analytics
• Smart encoding based on dynamic ROI, e.g. faces and motion detection
• Webserver and RTP/RTSP streaming for remote management and viewing

Contact SPI or your local reseller for more details on the video surveillance solutions, applicable benchmarks and demonstrations.