In the realm of business security, the protection of investments is a top priority for owners, encompassing defenses against external threats and potential internal risks from employees. Industries like gas stations, convenience stores, and liquor stores face elevated concerns due to extended operating hours and occasional understaffing, leading to higher instances of crime and violence. Conversely, restaurants, taverns, and grocery stores grapple with an uptick in slips and falls. The implementation of a robust video surveillance system becomes paramount, serving as a deterrent for issues such as shoplifting, employee theft, and documenting incidents or injury claims. Modern digital surveillance systems, with the added convenience of remote footage review through smartphones, empower business owners with real-time monitoring even when offsite.

Rasilient Systems emerges as a standout specialist in optimizing video surveillance solutions, offering VMS-agnostic purpose-built servers, storage, cloud solutions, AI appliances, and consulting services. This enables businesses to construct cost-effective, high-performance video surveillance setups. Acknowledging the critical importance of capturing all video frames without any gaps, Rasilient ensures a forensic-grade IP surveillance solution known as "no frames dropped" (NFD). Introducing the NFD Hybrid Cloud, the company presents a Video Surveillance Platform-as-a-Service (VS PaaS) that operates on a subscription basis and is VMS-agnostic. This cloud platform enables users to record video surveillance onsite using any VMS, securely uploading the recorded and encrypted video to a highly secure, object-based S3-compatible public cloud for extended storage.

Harnessing Powerful Video Surveillance Solutions

Rasilient Systems is at the forefront of advancing surveillance recording performance through its engineered technologies. With patented innovations, the company ensures the transmission of every video frame without recording gaps, even across different continents. This is achieved through readily available Internet or wireless broadband services, prioritizing data integrity and consistently delivering seamless and reliable system performance. Rasilient Systems is particularly renowned for its No-Frame-Drop (NFD) capability.

The hardware components are designed to be redundant, hot-swappable, scalable, interoperable, and infinitely customizable to meet the unique requirements of each deployment. Rasilient Systems offers a comprehensive range of services, including the following:

NFDCloud Platform: Rasilient Systems' open-platform video surveillance systems, agnostic to Video Management Systems (VMS), cater to multi-branch enterprises, providing reliability and performance regardless of deployment size. The technology supports various settings, including fixed locations, remote sites, and mobile facilities. Leveraging their patent-pending NFDLink technology, Rasilient enables the utilization of commonly available broadband wired or wireless services for transmitting and receiving forensic-grade video recordings across continents.

The system ensures video recording transmission without quality degradation over wired and/or wireless networks, even with bi-directional packet loss of up to 10%. Utilizing NFDStack technology, Rasilient integrates OpenStack's Keystone, Swift, and Horizon modules, offering authentication, authorizations, and object storage management. The system includes a graphical user interface for control and management, designed for user-friendly administration. Rasilient's products come pre-loaded with all necessary software, saving integrators time and labor during system configuration.

The NFDCloud Platform incorporates self-healing capabilities that automatically address transient drive failures without administrator intervention. This results in a significant reduction in the drive failure rate, up to 70%, leading to substantial cost savings in operational expenses and minimizing the risk of losing critical video data. Additionally, Rasilient's patented AI algorithms monitor each drive's performance, accurately forecasting its life expectancy. This eliminates the need for time-consuming data rebuilding and mitigates the potential for unrecoverable loss of critical video due to multi-drive failures.

Hybrid Cloud Recording Service: Rasilient Systems introduces the NFDHybrid Cloud, a Video Management System (VMS)/Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS)-agnostic video recording service. This innovative service seamlessly enables recording to both local storage and a public cloud through NFDLink, ensuring high-speed upload to the cloud over various internet connections. This redundancy in recording is complemented by flexible retention options and PrivateLok encryption, providing users with control over encryption keys.

The subscription-based pricing bundles from Rasilient include edge Network Video Recorder (NVR) hardware, cybersecurity features, reliable transmission capabilities, and secure cloud storage. The pay-as-you-go pricing model, applied per camera, ensures predictability, flexibility in retention, and addresses challenges related to variable storage costs.

The patent-pending NFDLink technology empowers video recording transmission with throughputs tested up to 700 Mbps from California to the East Coast, with no dropped frames or quality degradation over both wired and wireless networks. NFDLink's innovation allows the utilization of commonly available broadband wired or wireless services for transmitting and receiving forensic-grade video recordings, even across continents.

Rasilient's Cloud platforms adhere to security best practices and standards, incorporating secure network architecture, object lock features, and ransomware prevention protocols. Users can experience unparalleled reliability and performance with surveillance solutions meticulously designed to meet the demanding requirements of the field.

Emergency Cloud Recording: Rasilient Systems presents the Emergency Cloud Recording (ECR) service, a key element of its advanced Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) service. ECR utilizes cloud-based virtual resources to dramatically reduce downtime and swiftly resume video recording in the event of local storage failures. This service seamlessly integrates into the advanced RMA offering for specific recording servers, providing pre-configured cloud accounts and resources.

ECR surpasses industry-standard RMA services like Next Business Day (NBD), which typically take days to restore video recording. With ECR, downtime can be minimized to a matter of minutes, making it an ideal solution for critical situations where budget constraints limit investment in expensive failover or disaster recovery (DR) solutions. ECR transforms the recovery process, ensuring that video recording seamlessly transitions to the cloud during an emergency. For compatible Video Management Systems (VMSes), Rasilient's ECR App, integrated into the recording servers, facilitates a one-click switch to cloud-based video recording, significantly simplifying the recovery process and ensuring a rapid return to normal operations during downtime.

About | Sean Chang

Sean is the co-founder, CEO, and President of Rasilient Systems since its inception in 2001 in Silicon Valley, California. Before starting Rasilient, Sean worked at Lucent, HP, HP Labs, and several startups.  Sean’s career centers on video and Internet technologies. While at HP and HP Lab, he worked on Video On Demand and associated MPEG Transport technologies. He also led the development of LMDS broadband wireless system in Lucent. While at MCNC, he participated in IETF Video Conferencing work Group which led to RTSP and SIP protocols. He has five patents and 20 plus publications in video and broadband. Sean received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

“In the landscape of business, security isn't just a necessity; it's the foundation upon which success is built. Rasilient Systems pioneers video surveillance solutions, ensuring every frame is a testament to unwavering protection, reliability, and resilience.”