IT industry, "Truman's world", the potential and moral co-exist

I still remember a movie that was seen a few years ago, "National Enemy", starring Will Smith, where video cameras are flooded everywhere in the United States and the CIA can call these cameras at any time for tracking, The camera formed a super network, then felt a little science fiction a bit backhanded.

It has become a reality in just a few short years. Millions of cameras have been connected to the Internet, bringing great convenience to our financial, traffic and travel convenience. But this is only the beginning. In fact, the technology is now available Easily intelligent recognition, flow counting or even behavior recognition, this huge video data analysis closer to the real world than the traditional Internet data. What does this Pandora's box bring?

Video surveillance will be the largest data generator in the world

In 2012 the world added 2.8ZB of data, equivalent to 3 billion terabytes. If the video data is also stored, the data will be doubled.

To a province as an example, the public video surveillance has more than 100 million cameras, the total holdings of nearly 4 million, an estimated that the number of national cameras is not less than 40 million, an investment bank's report said the industry is still 20% Accelerate growth. And the other data is amazing too. The ratio of the number of cameras in the UK to the population has reached 1:15. Roughly counting the world at least 100 million cameras quietly watching in the corner.

If the data is stored, it will be very big data. Assuming that all cameras are switched to 1080P, the amount of data per day is 64G, the annual amount of data is 23T, and the world will generate 2.3 billion T of video data each year.

This is a horrible number. I do not know fortunate or unfortunate, the vast majority of video surveillance data storage will not be more than a day. But this is because, for the time being, these data are not worth the money compared to the stored price.

The emerging super video surveillance cloud

Video surveillance is no longer the same as before, several cameras connected to the building security room, only to enter this mysterious room to glimpse. In fact, the surveillance camera has become a smart terminal, a network port, can control even two-way audio can be connected, camera Internet has become a trend.

Public video, for example, has evolved from one city interconnection to one province interconnection and gradually to a nationwide interconnection, whether it be a new webcam or an old analogue camera + DVS / DVR, all started to speed up access to a huge Cloud platform, from simple video streaming data to PTZ operations, each terminal has become an intelligent terminal can be remotely controlled. At the other end, the data is packaged into various public applications that are open to the public to see how many phones are flooded with media to view live traffic video in the city in real time.

In addition to public video, countless private videos are also forming a private cloud, a huge chain of supermarkets, chain hotels, logistics companies, financial institutions and even industrial production lines, countless endpoints are pooled into the cloud. Many countries also require that private video data be directed to be open and can be called and operated.

This is the Internet of Things different cloud network, from the perception of the Internet to the application, but this perception is to countless "eyes" to see the world.

Welcome to "the world of Truman."