The notion that video can be something other than data is a foremost consideration.  Today, we think of pumping video through a pipe – more video, more stuff.  The IT intelligence calls that stuff data.  However, when we assemble and analyze data, it becomes information.  Information creates value for our organizations.  In the future, video becomes something more than bits through a pipe – something more than video.  It becomes “intelligence” just like any business application enriching productivity and profit.

In a distributed IP video surveillance scenario, the ability to view, share and distribute video, is linked to statistical and integrated information with other applications and systems such as access control and intrusion detection systems.