Optimize your costs and enable zero footprint video surveillance by eliminating any extra hardware. Supported for all major camera brands it converts a standard IP camera into a smart, plug-&-play cloud camera connected directly to cloud services for streaming, recording, and analytics. Record video to a cloud storage of your choice and view recorded video on SD card, receive live events and analyze video using cloud AI.
Cameras are connected directly to the cloud without any on-premise bridges, appliances or servers. Eliminate on-site hardware and enable zero footprint video surveillance.
Minimize bandwidth consumption and keep video local by using camera SD cards for reliability and redundancy. This flexible, hybrid cloud approach alleviates a key customer concern by optimizing bandwidth and storage, while reducing infrastructure costs.
No vulnerable open ports and no firewall or network configuration. This guarantees your video surveillance solution and data is safe and secure.
The fastest and easiest solution when you need to add cloud recording to a new or existing deployment
Install the plug-in on a camera and get cloud recording without any service subscription or extra hardware
Add more services and generate significant recurring revenue by connecting IP cameras directly to your cloud ecosystem
There are 3 options for connecting cameras to the cloud:
A firmware plug-in or application is a software module that runs directly on the camera and connects it to the cloud. Once installed it makes the camera plug-&-play. There is no need to do any network configuration, like port forwarding or opening ports. VXG offers pre-built plug-ins for major camera brands and models. The plug-in source code is open and publicly available for integration with new cameras.
ONVIF Uplink is a new standard for connecting IP cameras to the cloud. VXG fully supports ONVIF Uplink and with more cameras coming to market supporting this protocol, the use of extra software modules will become unnecessary. VXG also helps camera vendors with implementation and testing of ONVIF Uplink on cameras.
VXG supports IPsec site-to-site VPN tunnel which makes connection to cameras as simple as if they were in your local network. IPsec VPN is supported by the majority of modern routers making the connection with the Cloud simple and secure, without additional hardware or software.
In the case of camera plug-ins and ONVIF Uplink, a camera is establishing a secure WebSocket connection with the cloud. This connection is used for tunneling commands and data. The connection is bi-directional and allows accessing the camera through the cloud.
Camera plug-ins allow direct Cloud recording to a cloud object storage of your choice, giving you the flexibility of selecting the lowest object storage cost or even using free tiers. The simple structure of the recorded video storage and standard MP4 and JPEG file formats allow viewing recorded data directly, even without a Cloud VMS.
VXG supports playback of recorded video from a camera SD card, as well as the backup of SD card video to the cloud storage. This provides reliability and redundancy, and resolves situations with insufficient network bandwidth or when there a network outage.
The camera plug-ins and ONVIF Uplink allow viewing camera Web UI remotely through the Cloud. This is particularly convenient for changing camera specific settings or remote maintenance of a camera.
VXG is integrated with major IP cameras brands including AXIS, Hikvision, Dahua, Vivotek, Hanwha, Bosch, Grandstream and i-PRO making a plug-&-play connection of these cameras directly to cloud storage and cloud analytics. Please note that due to a large variety of models and firmware versions, VXG doesn't automatically test each new camera model or firmware update, until requested by a customer.
Cloud cameras initiate a bi-directional connection to the Cloud which provides the Cloud with full access to the cameras.
There is no extra fee for camera plug-ins. They come as part of VXG Cloud VMS.
