UK company’s video compression system claims to use 60% less bandwidth than industry standard technologies.
Digital Barriers already provides mobile video streaming to the security and defence sectors, but the power of the company’s technology has much more significant potential across wider commercial and consumer applications.
Mobile video streaming requires significant cellular bandwidth, which is both costly and results in network delays that prevent the zero latency required for video to be streamed and viewed in real time. For consumers, the result of such bandwidth constraints is significant buffering, hampering instant communication. This will become an increasing issue as these apps gain popularity. Digital Barriers’ TVI software solves this problem. Recent trials have shown that the company’s class-leading video compression technology typically uses at least 60% less bandwidth than the industry’s standard technologies, such as H.264, the video compression used in almost all mobile video applications, blu-ray players and commercial CCTV. With mobile data costs at current levels, this reduction in data usage will help keep phone bills of avid social media users under control.
Now, after several months of developing its new Cloud Video Platform (CVP) to deliver the advantages of TVI to a much wider market, Digital Barriers is preparing it for launch. CVP will enable existing video to be viewed anywhere in the world – to and from mobile and fixed devices. Additionally it will provide intelligent video analytics without any further software or infrastructure costs.
Ahead of the launch of Digital Barriers’ Cloud Video Platform, CEO Zak Doffman commented: “The growth in live video streaming from smart devices will put a real strain on mobile networks, with the result being latency, buffering, and often limited service. Our technology can solve this problem for consumers, just as we already do for the leading defence and security agencies around the world who rely on Digital Barriers to power their mobile surveillance applications.”
The Cloud Video Platform, due to be launched next month, is expected to significantly widen the market for the company’s video surveillance technology and capitalise on the major investments it has made in the technology. TVI can stream live video in and out of a cloud-based service more efficiently than any other technology on the market, delivering major cost and operational efficiencies, as well as improved usability – the same benefits that would significantly improve live consumer video streaming applications.
TVI has already been sold into more than thirty countries, and counts some of the most prominent defence and security organisations in the world as its customers. Digital Barriers also works with major cellular network operators and satellite communication providers in both the US and Europe, who are benefiting from the bandwidth savings achieved through the technology.
