Cloud CCTV
Cloud CCTV is a monitoring and recording service, augmented with AI technology to respond to threats faster, and generate actionable insights on your business.
Cloud CCTV is a simple and modern video surveillance solution that adds cloud-based video recording, AI analytics, and an open marketplace of integrations to turn your existing camera estate into a smart security and business intelligence tool.
All you need is a suite of IP ready cameras, an internet connection, and a cloud subscription service. The solution is flexible, scaling up and down monthly as required. The cameras are immediately available for viewing over the internet in a single pane of glass – including on iOS & Android devices.
AI tools allow you to track events such as slips, trips and falls, loitering, line crossing, vandalism, and many more – notifying you in real-time.
What is Cloud CCTV?
Cloud CCTV is a video surveillance system that stores and manages CCTV footage in the cloud rather than relying solely on local DVR or NVR hardware. Your IP cameras send footage to a secure cloud platform, where it is recorded, encrypted, and made available for viewing and management from any location.
A Cloud CCTV solution typically includes IP cameras, a local bridge or recorder for bandwidth management, and a cloud-based Video Management System (VMS). This architecture ensures that footage is protected off-site, removes the risk of recorder failure, and allows you to access live or recorded video through a web browser or iOS/Android app.
Unlike traditional CCTV, Cloud CCTV provides centralised access across all your sites, automatic updates, elastic storage, and AI-powered analytics. It enables you to search footage instantly, share evidence securely with law enforcement, control permissions remotely, and scale your camera estate without additional on-premise hardware.
Cloud CCTV systems are designed to meet UK, EU, and US compliance standards, with footage stored in-country according to your location. Because the cloud platform is updated several times per year, your CCTV infrastructure continually improves without any on-site maintenance.
Cloud CCTV Features
Unified Pane of Glass
All camera footage and recorded events across your national or global estate is unified under one online portal, accessible on web or smartphone interfaces. Pair with compatible Access Control systems to provide video and smartcard authentication.
Open Platform
entrustIT’s Cloud CCTV utilises an open platform with integrations from third party vendors that resolve specific use cases – connect your cameras to your EPOS terminals, your parking management, access control, or room bookings to add functionality.
Built for the future
Your subscription entitles you to free over-the-air updates to your infrastructure, ensuring your camera estate gets smarter over time.
Find footage with Smart Search
Comb through hours of footage in seconds using natural language search. A search for parameters such as ‘man in black jacket’ will provide all frames that meet such parameters.
Enhance Situational Awareness with AI
Artificial intelligence tools provide proactive notifications of noteworthy events such as personal injuries, loitering or suspicious behaviour, vandalism, or venue capacity, reducing your reliance on human guards.
How does Cloud CCTV Recording work?
How does Cloud IP Camera storage work? This is the technical explanation.
Your camera(s) capture footage in the form of a video file. That footage is sent to a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) which is kept on-site at your premises. The DVR stores your footage locally and then uploads to the Cloud using intelligent bandwidth management to ensure your internet links are never overwhelmed. The footage is stored on a ISO27001/GDPR compliant cloud environment.
You should store your footage in multiple locations, since that will protect it from loss. Storing your footage in the DVR as well as the cloud resolves this.
entrustIT will provide you with a subscription to our cloud storage service. This subscription service provides you with access to the online portal, over-the-air updates, AI functionality, and an open integration marketplace. Your subscriptions scale based on your usage and are billed monthly.
Artificial Intelligence in Cloud CCTV
entrustIT’s Cloud CCTV is augmented with cutting edge artificial intelligence systems. Edge AI provides on-device processing at speed, and then defers to powerful cloud-based models to undertake additional processing. The impact is faster access to strategic insights on your business.
AI Analytics
Detect activity at your global locations using insights such as line crossing to report on footfall and busy times, as well as security monitoring such as intrusion detection, camera tampering and loitering.
Smart Video Search
Search your entire database of footage using natural language search, simply type in the search field and the VMS uses AI to feed back to you all images associated with that search. For example, ‘red car’.
Automatic Number
Plate Recognition (ANPR)
AI records car number plates, make and model, and colour and stores the data in your VMS. Get insights on how frequently cars visit your premises, or pair with your access control to provide ANPR gate entry – all without the need for specialised cameras.
Open Platform adds partner integrations for just about any use
Use third-party integration to add functionality to fit your requirements, including smart parking management, alarm monitoring, EPOS integration, automated privacy pixelation, and many more.
Cloud CCTV Outcomes
- Reduced on-site guard costs
- Improved compliance reporting
- Faster investigations
- Reduced camera downtime
- Multi-site standardisation
- Improved conviction rates
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FAQs
Q: Why is there a monthly subscription for Cloud CCTV?
Q: Can I roll the hardware costs into my subscription costs?
Q: Do I need to purchase specific cameras?
Q: Can you install cameras and cabling for us?
Q: Do you also provide ongoing support and maintenance?
Q: Will AI be able to monitor my cameras for me, triggering actions on my behalf?
Q: What is the quality like?
Q: What about bandwidth?
Q: How do I know where to place my cameras?
Q: Will it work with Single Sign On (SSO)
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Read moreWhich package is right for me?
The difference between VideoIT Essentials and VideoIT Advanced is, in short, in their bandwidth management. VideoIT Essentials directly uploads from your cameras to the Cloud. There is no DVR and therefore your cameras are working your bandwidth at all times.
On the other hand, VideoIT Advanced uses an on-site DVR to first store your camera footage during the working day. Your scheduled upload begins as your working day ends. The overnight period is where your internet network is not working (as nobody is in the office). Therefore, your upload occurs at the most efficient part of the day. When you arrive in the office the next morning, your previous day’s footage is safely stored in the cloud and your bandwidth is unaffected – no more interruptions!
Learn more about Cloud CCTV
You can read more about how entrustIT CCTV can work for your business in our detailed blog.
Which Cloud IP Camera is right for me?
With so many to choose from, it can be hard to ensure you choose correctly.
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You can read more about how entrustIT CCTV can work for your business in our detailed blog:
CASE STUDY
Nestle Health Science
The legacy CCTV system in place at Nestlé was out of date and needed a VPN to access, we set up a cloud CCTV system to get them up to date and functioning as they should.
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To put it simply, our team absolutely love our new Cloud CCTV system. Our warehouse management team can now access footage remotely without it crashing their laptop, and it has made running our warehouse and keeping it secure so much easier”.
Simon Foxwell, IT Analyst
Nestle Health Science
