Rapid Eye Storage Estimator - Honeywell rapid eye System Administrator Manual

Enhancing Video for Security

Rapid Eye Storage Estimator

The Storage Estimator is installed along with Rapid Eye Software.
1. Click Start.
2. Point to (or click) All Programs.
3. Point to Rapid Eye Multi-Media 8.1. A menu appears.
4. Click Storage Estimator.
Finding out how long recorded video will be stored
An operator may need to know how far back in time that video, audio and data can be obtained.
Honeywell provides a Storage Estimator to show the approximate length of a unit's video archive,
based on a unit's settings.
High settings in combination, for many cameras, can shorten a unit's video archive from
thousands of days to a few hours. See table 7–7, p. 128. If the archive is too short for your
needs, lower the resolution and frame rate of continuous video.
Storage Process: Video, Audio, Data
Recordings of video, audio and data are not permanent. When a unit's storage fills, the oldest
recorded video, audio and data are replaced with more recent recordings. The amount of time that
recordings are available is known as the length of the video archive. More cameras, high recording
rates, high-resolution and high quality settings, all contribute to shorten the video archive on a unit.
Scheduling can lengthen a video archive.
Fig. 7–16. Storage Estimator.
Tip
- Use the Rapid Eye Storage Estimator to forecast the length of a unit's video archive.
- Combinations of very high values be assigned only to Event Recording.
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