Some time ago Prisma Video Tech launched the first of its four-port PCI video capture cards, to a receptive South African security industry. The company has now announced the release of its second generation product. The new Quad-T-Card (trigger card) has four video inputs, four hardware trigger inputs and offers pre-event recording.
The trigger inputs can be wired to existing passive infrareds, hard contacts, boom gates, turnstiles, loops in the road or even existing alarm panels.
The pre-event and event recording times are variable, with even the number of frames per second adjustable. The card is capable of taking a series of snapshots or a clip of full motion video on the standard card, the images or streaming video of which can then be saved to disk, archived to a larger backup facility, or e-mailed to any location users may choose.
Says Prisma Video Tech's Craig Lyons, "Pre-event means that one can now capture events that took place before the alarm was sounded. This is achieved by a buffer set-up in the PC, which will save images for a defined period of time (for instance 10 s), before overwriting itself.
"One also has the choice of an audio alarm when a trigger is activated as well as when a camera signal is interrupted due to camera failure or removal," adds Lyons.
Prisma Video Tech is constantly upgrading its hardware and software and will announce new developments in due course.
For details contact Craig Lyons on tel: (011) 883 1025 or cell: 083 429 9858.
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