Specifications

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SPECIFICATIONS (CONTINUED)
4. The video system shall provide Harris County with remote visibility into and out of the facility.
Along with this, the system shall also record camera images to provide a track record of past
video of inside the building.
5. All work performed in all Sections shall be performed in a series of stages building by building or
area by area in order not to disrupt daily business or institution activities.
PRODUCTS
Video Management Software – General
1. The Video Management Software (VMS) shall meet the requirements of business and government
surveillance applications. The software shall be unique and power a series of Network Video
Recorders, IP Cameras and Workstations. The software shall provide a complete and
comprehensive application for the operation and maintenance of a video surveillance system. It
shall provide full live digital video surveillance over a standard 100/1000Base-T network by the
use of a graphical user interface (GUI) incorporating video display areas, toolbars, control
palettes, and interactive site map displaying system components.
2. The software shall be available in two versions. One version shall provide full functionality except
for recording capability. The second version shall have full functionality plus recording capability.
Both versions of the software shall also be available as software package for specified
workstations.
3. The software shall offer network connectivity to other family components and share all video and
control data over the network using standard network protocol. The number of network-connected
components shall only be limited by the number of assigned IP addresses.
4. The software shall provide an open platform that allows integration with Open Network Video
Interface Forum (ONVIF) compliant commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices, such as: IP
cameras, and IP edge devices, including standard resolution and megapixel cameras, from
numerous industry-leading manufacturers. It shall support Unicast or Multicast according to the
edge device capability.
5. The software shall run on a COTS workstation with a minimum of 2.66 GHZ dual-core processor,
2 GB of RAM and 5 GB of disk space. The software shall run on the Microsoft Windows 7
Professional 32 or 64-bit operating system.
6. The software, without any degradation to video quality, shall simultaneously offer:
a. 16-channel continuous video playback.
b. 16-channel video playback transmission to the network.
c. 16-channel continuous video receiving from the network.
d. Recording of up to 95 cameras on a single NVR, depending on resolution, quality and
frames per second (FPS) settings.
e. User selectable video archiving of pre-existing recordings.
f. Video export in AVI, MPEG-4 or Xvid and viewable on a standard DVD and media player.
g. Video archives in a verified, secure CD or DVD format.
h. Support for the GUI to display on a widescreen monitor (16:9/16:10).
7. The software shall offer features including the simultaneous display, playback, distribution and
archive of multiple channels of video. Cameras shall be the primary input devices. Each channel
of video shall have the capability of being displayed, played back, distributed and archived
simultaneously across several servers and clients across the network. The software shall allow
recording (version dependent) and viewing at different frame rates (FPS).