IPTV integration: the security view to the glue

Abstract

Introduction

IPTV is emerging as a disruptive technology that bridges a range of business concerns from site security to operational efficiency. It has the potential to transform several aspects of how a business operates, and alter supplier patterns.

Scope

Our research reports span the global software and IT services domain covering: strategic issues, technology and services, companies and markets.Ovum' s research has, for over 20 years been focused at the junction of the technical and commercial domains. Our strategic issues agenda addresses the major disruptions that are affecting both the software and IT services suppliers, and their customers that they serve.

Highlights

Ensuring that technology investments drive competitive advantage, and that technology spend is not all absorbed by routine and non-differentiating technology, is more important than ever. Developing repeatable assets, new approaches to service innovation and moving into adjacent segments are all being tried - as are many other approaches. What is clear is that selecting the right markets to focus on is more important than ever.

Table of Contents

Executive summary

• In a nutshell
• Key messages
• Managing expectations is the key to success
• IPTV is more than the next generation of cameras
• Take an imaginative, long-term view of the possibilities
• Differentiating IPTV products
• Synergies give vendors and service providers opportunities to move into the surveillance market
• The potential of IPTV surveillance
• Integration and remote monitoring
• Within the enterprise
• Beyond the enterprise
• Integration lies largely in the future
• Number plate recognition systems
• Some existing integration scenarios
• External alarms
• Crime prevention
• Investment decisions
• IPTV technology
• Image resolution and compression
• Standardisation initiatives
• Image compression standards
• Open Network Video Interface Forum
• IPTV is only slowly displacing analogue cameras
• Comparing TCO
• The technical infrastructure
• IPTV camera features
• The management system
• The analytics
• Understanding the limitations of all types of CCTV
• The relationship with identity management and information security
• Transforming the supplier landscape
• Vendors
• System integrators
• Service providers