What is VSaaS and Why is it Important for Users, Resellers, and Integrators?
Understanding the concept of VSaaS and its importance
VSaaS, short for Video Surveillance as a Service, enables users to remotely access live & recorded video, store, play, forward, manage and monitor surveillance video footage in the cloud. In other words, videos are not kept on an onsite server, NAS, NVR or computer hard drive but save in the cloud.
The adoption and growth of Video Surveillance in the cloud has exploded in recent years.
VSaaS Market Growth and Driving Factors
The VSaaS market is projected to reach $6 billion dollars by 2026 with a compound annual growth rate of 16.0% from 2022 through 2026.
What’s driving this tremendous growth? In large part it's due to the universal need for increased physical security COMBINED with desire to reach videos remotely and the ability to get valuable customer insights and other business analytics from the videos in the cloud.
Beyond Video Surveillance: AI and Analytics in VSaaS
In fact, Video Surveillance is a bit of a misnomer. These days Artificial Intelligence and video analytics can automatically analyze video to detect events and trigger subsequent actions - thus greatly enhancing the capabilities of VSaaS. One of the most important aspects of today's market leader are proactive alerts that alert users when specific things happen, ideally ahead of time so that preventive action can be taken. Active deterrent systems with audible alerts and light controls combined with phone notifications and two way audio capabilities are the features most desired.
Benefits of VSaaS for Businesses
Like most cloud services, VSaaS provides businesses with several key benefits including:
Significant cost savings over on prem deployments and maintenance.
For example a cloud video management system facilitates:
- Easy Low Cost REMOTE Installation
- No Maintenance
- No Upgrade Costs and;
- You only pay for what you or your customers use.
VSaaS is incredibly flexible and scalable. It’s compatible with most legacy systems and can be scaled FAST with just a click of a mouse.
Choosing the Right VSaaS Solution: Key Considerations
There are different solutions sold as VSaaS and not all are the same. Some of the more important things to watch out for are:
Server-less versus bridge device solutions
Today's smart devices do not need a bridge device to connect securely to the cloud. Servers and bridges add both fixed and variable costs and technically become a single point of failure. Servers need a clean and adequate climatized space and consume a lot of electricity since they run 24/7. They also require maintenance, updates, firmware, and security patches.
A "pure cloud" solution is serverless and has no moving parts. Each camera authenticates securely and connects to the cloud under the customer's account under tight privacy rules and with granular privilege that goes to the camera level.
Small projects with maybe only one or two cameras therefore are a lot cheaper since they omit a server. Larger project are also simpler to design since it is not important to evaluate and dimension a server. All the functions done by the server are done internally in each camera enabling such a system to scale dynamically with no real limits.
The difference between Consumer, Small Business and Enterprise
Some cloud solutions are designed for consumers and will have very little configuration and almost no user management features. They are designed more for private usage. Best know example here would be RING door bells and similar.
Next there are hosted small business solutions that are often sold along with small business alarm systems. These tend to offer very few configuration options, and are usually limited
In features and usually single brand offers by the alarm system vendor. Examples ADT.
Enterprise systems are designed to offer multi branch access to different privilege levels of employees. The better solutions will offer single-sign-on and integration to ActiveDirectory.
Multi-Vendor versus Single-Vendor Lock-in
It is difficult to find a single vendor that is the best at everything. That is why we believe its is important to choose a solution that is multi-vendor.
If you’re still wondering whether a VSaaS solution is right for you…ask yourself:
- Are you getting the most value out of your existing Video system?
- Are you only paying for what you use?
- Do you pay one simple, consistent, and predictable monthly payment to oversee, monitor and manage your existing video system?
- Is your system easily scalable with the click of a mouse?
- Are you able to easily and conveniently extract valuable business analytics and intelligence from your current surveillance system / solution?
If you answered ‘no’ to ANY of these questions you should consider VSaaS.
Conclusion
Learn more about IPTECHVIEW SURVEILLANCE a VSaaS platform that was created for smart cameras and other intelligent edge devices. The objective was to make accessing these devices and the information to be gained from them as easy as possible for all the stakeholders by using the principle of the least complex user interface to get to the information.
In addition to the User Interface IPTECHVIEW also invested a lot into making networking communications as simple and secure as possible. No more port forwarding on routers needed, more secure connectivity protocols, and encryption during data transfer and at rest make IPTECHVIEW’s VSaaS is SECURE, RELIABLE and PRIVACY PROTECTED.
Find a partner to discuss your needs or give us a call today at 972-222-1110.
