A Framework for Scalable Cloud Video Recorder System in Surveillance Environment

In recent years, video surveillance industry has encountered huge evolution. First, the IP based video cameras are gradually replacing the market share of Closed-circuit television (CCTV). Second, hardware and software based network video record come to market to support more amounts of camera sources. However, pure NVR hardware or software which is installed on single physical machine may reach maximum storage or throughput limitation due to predefined resource limitation. In this paper, we proposed a prototype of cloud based video recorder system under Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) abstraction layer in cloud computing domain. This system provides scalable video recording, backup and monitoring features. Furthermore, this system was implemented using Hadoop distributed file system to store video streaming. In this way, Map / Reduce mechanism could be used to support intelligent video analysis tasks. The paper shares a good experience while design unlimited resource video recording system.