Change

The world had changed quite a bit since I wrote.

Obama did live up to his election campaign promise, change. In the name of 'saving the world from falling to the economic abyss' Obama administration had changed the banking accounting rule to make the books of those 'great' American banks look better.

Back home, we have our vary own interesting changes as well. We got a new premier, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and a new cabinet line-up. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the Opposition Leader said the opposition front will be establishing a special panel that makes up of our nation vary first shadow Cabinet and its ministries.

Change is also happening to Malaysia surveillance industry, the migration from conventional analog video surveillance systems to an IP networked based platform had started. Since the beginning of 2009 more and more government entities and corporates had started shopping around for IP cameras and Network Video Recorder (NVR) solution.

Depending upon specific system requirements, both analog and IP systems have advantages. The decision to move to an IP platform does not have to be black or white neither, in-between there is a hybrid system which can deliver the best of both worlds while providing the flexibility to enhance or expand your system as the need arises.

We can not say that this will mark the beginning of a complete exodus from analog to IP platform as there is still a tremendous demand for analog products and systems. There are many criteria to consider before a decision can be made when designing and building a new system or upgrading an existing system.

We will revisit this topic again in the future. Meantime, observing we shall.