Full Motion Video

HiPER WATCH™

Pixia's software enables the storage and retrieval of hundreds of simultaneous video feeds. Users have instant access to archived or live video even as resolutions evolve to high definition and beyond.

The use of video cameras has increased dramatically over the past few years. Not only is the number of sensors growing astronomically but the individual sensor resolutions and frame rates are increasing rapidly as well. There is currently a major transition occurring from standard definition video feeds (640 x 480) to high definition video (1920 x 1080). In addition to the increased bandwidth requirements, additional metadata is provided by these sensors that needs to be maintained and searchable.

Pixia's HiPER WATCH™ solution allows users to stream hundreds of simultaneous video feeds to disk. The software fully supports Motion Imagery Standards Profile (MISP) compliant video streams with embedded KLV metadata. The data is served to clients via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). At the lowest level, video data is streamed to clients as a series of GOP's (Group of Pictures). The server is extremely scalable as the number of concurrent users increases. Because the interface to the server is well defined, this capability can be embedded behind third party tools that focus on video dissemination and exploitation.

Next generation tools are performing automated metadata creation from video streams to improve the actual information or knowledge generated from the videos. As these automated metadata algorithms increase in functionality, the access to the stored video data will need to increase dramatically without affecting the current dissemination or ingest pipelines. With HiPER WATCH™ these automated analytic tools will run in the background without affecting the overall performance of the video server. Users will soon be able to make advanced queries and receive exactly the GOP's from the various video streams that match their request.