Shanghai Introduces New Standard for Digital Camera Technology Specifications

On November 1st, the "Technical Specifications for Color Digital Cameras for Video Surveillance and Monitoring in the Municipality (Trial)" issued by the Technical Protection Office of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau has been officially implemented. This is already the second local standard for video surveillance implemented in Shanghai. The last one was the “Technical Specification for Analog Color Cameras for Video Surveillance and Monitoring in the Municipality (Trial),” which was launched in March this year. In just one year, Shanghai has conducted local policies and regulations for both analog and digital surveillance cameras.

The Shanghai market has always been an alternative to China's security market. It focuses on local enterprises. Paying attention to product standardization and ordering are the two major features of the Shanghai security market. When the author communicated with a number of Shenzhen security companies, the enterprises expressed great interest in the Shanghai market. However, the high demand and standardization of products in Shanghai also made many companies more rational choices in the face of this piece of cake. avoid. “My products are all in accordance with their standards. How do I compete in markets outside Shanghai?” This is the voice of many companies. Therefore, in the eyes of more people in the industry, Shanghai's standardization is the protection and self-digestion of local security companies in Shanghai. More than 60% of security products in Shanghai security companies are digested by the local market, and the results of standardization in Shanghai can be seen.

However, with the opening of the Shanghai World Expo, the transformation of Shanghai's old city, and the rise of more intelligent communities, Shanghai's application market has become the largest concentration of security in China. Under such circumstances, the significance of Shanghai’s standard for launching cameras twice this year is obvious.

Judging from a lot of media comments, all of the standards for the digital camera are expected to be published. Indeed, the official release of product standards is of great significance to the development of the industry. Especially in terms of the huge potential of digital cameras, the domestic official pre-release standards can compete against the alliance standards promoted by foreign network camera giants, and at the same time, it also helps security companies reach a basic bottom line in product production. Only with this bottom line can it be produced and sold. For example, in the standard issued in Shanghai, it is clearly stated that network cameras should support the use of standard H. 264 or MPEG-4 video coding standard, H. Although the 264 standard has become very popular in the market, it is obviously different from what is required by the rules to promote itself in the market.

The outlook is always beautiful, but for the market, more is the mastery of interests. The implementation of the two sets of standards in Shanghai naturally has positive significance for the industry, but the problem is that this is just “Shanghai” only. There is no effective standard norm in the national market, which is bound to be just a "self-entertainment" for local enterprises in Shanghai. The author learned with the Guangdong Security Association that as the nation's largest security province in Guangdong Province, there is currently no preparation for the introduction of local standards following the pace of Shanghai. The staff member stated that at present, Guangdong Association for Safety is focusing on the standards of production fields such as schools and hospitals, and there is no time plan for the introduction of the standard for the entire product line. Then, we can see that Shanghai, which has a high threshold, has become the country of security in the country. Other regions still go its own way.

Shanghai has already begun its attempt to unify IP standards. However, in the face of the wider region, we did not see the possibility of such standards starting. As mentioned above, the security market in Shanghai has always been an alternative to security. The existence of this alternative is not a multi-year effort. From the perspective of the development of the security industry, Shanghai’s alternatives have only added a “Shanghai Security Barrel” to it. The entire industry push has little effect. Then, as far as the author is concerned, the impact of the introduction of the Shanghai digital camera standards on the industry is not as "great" and "significant" as some media seem, and more is just another separation of Shanghai from the Chinese security market. Steps.