The soul of digital video surveillance systems is software, unlike the hardware of older analog system video recorders. This software, better known as Video Management Software (VMS), performs all the tasks that the digital video recorder provides to the user as a service.
Many such software are commercially available, by installing which the computer can be made suitable for recording and analyzing camera images. However, few people know that there are free software that can compete with the most expensive ones.
This is ZoneMinder, the most popular open source video surveillance software. It runs on Linux and supports analog, USB and network cameras. It also supports camera control (PTZ). It includes a web browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) and mobile phone access for configuration, viewing and playback of video streams. It supports multiple users and user access levels in multiple different languages.
ZoneMinder is written in C + +, Perl and the PHP program. It uses MySQL databases and the graphical user interface (GUI) is accessed through Apache. It can be configured in many ways to achieve maximum performance on all hardware.
Recently, the developers released the latest version 1.27 of ZoneMinder, which contains significant changes in terms of system stability and memory usage, and even added new functions. It is worth reviewing the basic features and services of the program.
- Runs on Linux!
- Supports analog video, USB and network cameras.
- Supports PTZ cameras, can be expanded with new protocols.
- C + +, Perl and PHP are standard applications.
- Uses a powerful MySQL database.
- High-performance independent video processing and analysis daemons ensure high fault tolerance.
- Several zones (ROIs) can be defined for one camera. Each may have a different sensitivity or be completely ignored.
- A large number of configuration options allow maximum performance on any hardware.
- A user-friendly web interface allows you to fully monitor the system or view cameras and live images and replay events.
- Supports viewing of live images in mpeg video, multipart jpeg and still image formats.
- Supports playback of events in mpeg video, multi-part jpeg, still image formats, with statistical detail.
- User-defined filters can be applied to any number of events in any order.
- Notifications about events can be sent by e-mail or SMS, attaching still images or video recordings using event filters.
- Automatic upload of events to external FTP storage.
- Bidirectional X.10 (Home Automation Protocol) integration allows receiving and sending X.10 signals when video is recorded and motion detection activates X.10 devices.
- Highly partitioned design allows for easy addition of other hardware interface protocols, alarms, etc. to support.
- Multiple users and user access levels Multilingual support. Full control script support allows most tasks to be automated or handed over to other applications.
- Support for external control by third-party applications or equipment.
- xHTML mobile phone access allows access to common functions.
- iPhone and Android app available.
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