Video Security for Smart Cities

Unreliable Security Infrastructure

Smart cities are built on interconnected, data-driven systems that thrive on consistent uptime. Failures in these systems, including security, can have immediate and potentially catastrophic consequences for economic activity, public safety and quality of life.

With trusted, guaranteed performance, our solutions ensure video security infrastructure in smart cities operates continuously and reliably. It provides continuous surveillance and data, proactively securing physical areas and maintaining the smooth, ongoing operations of many linked smart city services.

Difficulty in Managing Petabyte-Scale Data Growth

Video footage is one of the largest contributors to the petabyte-scale data growth in smart cities. The challenge is not just collecting this data, but efficiently storing, transmitting, processing and making sense of it in real time or near real-time. Additionally, with data growth comes rising costs of storing video for longer, often mandated retention periods.

Our purpose-built hardware is designed to handle the specific demands of video processing and storage more efficiently than general-purpose IT infrastructure. It’s a scalable video infrastructure that empowers smart cities to handle massive workloads without dropping frames.

This efficiency is further enhanced by software solutions like Harmonize Bridge, which offers a hybrid cloud archiving strategy. With Harmonize Bridge, smart cities can store sensitive, active data on-premises for immediate access while archiving long-term footage to cost-effective public or private cloud storage. This approach ensures scalability as the number of cameras and retention periods increase without sacrificing performance or data integrity.

Long Forensic Review Cycles

The volume of video data generated by the expansive sensor networks of smart cities makes traditional review methods unsustainable and inefficient for critical incident response. When major incidents occur, key evidence is often buried in petabytes of footage, which can take too long to review. These delays can disrupt investigations and hamper public safety response.

This hurdle highlights the need for advanced analytics and solutions designed with rapid review capabilities. Modern video infrastructure solutions for smart cities reduce review time from days to minutes, showcasing a clear return on investment through faster case resolution. Another advantage of such infrastructure is that it significantly frees up valuable human resources, allowing security personnel and analysts to focus on analysis and strategy rather than tedious reviews.