Long Term Storage in a Surveillance Environment

Sammanfattning: New legal requirements force organizations to increase their data retention of video surveillance for up to a year. This amount of video data requires very large storage capacities, which will drive up the costs for the end user by a large amount. Surveillance data that is old is very rarely accessed, thus there is no need for a short retrieval time for older data. This thesis investigated different storage technologies that could be used in conjunction with a VMS for long term storage of video surveillance. The use case for this thesis was cannabis cultivation facilities in Canada, which are required to store their surveillance video for up to a year. A technical analysis, as well as an economical one, was made for the different systems, and some were tested in practice. Depending on the amount of data and how long it will be stored, different systems can be chosen. It was concluded that the Veracity Coldstore was a good alternative for the use case presented in this thesis.