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Storage Rentention Time
The storage rentention time indicates the number of days to archive camera image and audio data. Use the slider below to select the required period of time and to compute the associated storage.
Allows you to see details of previous bandwidth estimates.
Your name for each job or estimation.
Scene Type is a general measure of how complex an image is.
Low Activity - A quiet room or hallway with an occasional occupant or traffic. Virtually no motion or change due to wind, camera motion, or camera noise.
Med Activity - A room or hallway with a couple of occupants or fairly frequent traffic. A sidewalk or street with some traffic and little motion due to wind, light, or camera noise.
High Activity - A busy room or hallway with several moving occupants at a time. A street or sidewalk with moderate traffic and/or moderate motion of trees and bushes due to wind.
On or off, if supported by the model you select.
American Dynamics part number.
Frame Rate specifies how many frames are recorded each second by the camera. Note that the maximum record rate of any single camera is limited to 30 IPS for NTSC and 25 IPS for PAL. This is known as “frames per second” (fps) or “images per second” (ips).
Resolution indicates the image size being recorded. Larger image sizes provide better resolution, while smaller image sizes save on storage space.
Resolution can be referred to in several different ways. Standard resolution cameras are described in terms of the number of TV lines they produce in the horizontal and vertical. These numbers, such as 352 x 240 also have terms associated with them, such as CIF. 720 x 576 may be referred to as D1, or Full D1.
Megapixel resolution is described in terms of the lines of pixels in the image. 1280×1024 is referred to as 1.3 Megapixels (MP).
On our calculator, each resolution will have both the numeric reference (352x240 or 1280x1024) and the term for the resolution (CIF or 1.3MP).
The compression the model or edge device will use.
Quality indicates the image quality, as determined by how much compression is applied to the image as it is sent from the edge device to the recording and viewing device.
Values range from 1-99 for MJPEG and higher values in this case means better quality and higher bandwidth consumption. 99=Highest Quality (least compression/largest file size) and 1 Lowest Quality (Most compression, smallest file size).
Values range from 1-31 for MPEG4 but in this case lower values mean higher quality and higher bandwidth. 1=Highest Quality (least compression/largest file size) and 31 Lowest Quality (Most compression, smallest file size).
Bit rate output of the edge device, based on the variables you’ve selected.
Select the desired number of hours recording per day. The calculator will automatically update bandwidth required to acheive the desired record duration for various conditions.
