Video surveillance

Over 30% of surveillance system costs are typically related to storage. By leveraging open source economics, TrueNAS delivers industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO) to create more cost-effective and scalable storage solutions for security video systems. TrueNAS seamlessly integrates with the VMS and acts as an NVR (Network Video Recorder), and can also store archival footage and VMS metadata. Using TrueNAS as video storage, security systems can be built for homes, offices, campuses, and even entire cities at a significantly lower cost.

TrueNAS provides the capacity and bandwidth for high-resolution IP security cameras at high data rates (e.g. 30 Mbps). With compression, reduced frame rates, and motion detection, VMS systems typically store more than 300 GB/month per camera, and storage capacity and bandwidth grow linearly with the number of cameras. The FreeNAS Mini supports dozens of cameras and can even run ZoneMinder as a built-in plugin application. The TrueNAS M50-HA scales to thousands of cameras when used with a clustered VMS that scales the processing. If you need more than 10PB of storage, simply use multiple TrueNAS M50 systems and manage them with TrueCommand.

Surveillance video systems cannot afford to go offline or have database corruption issues. TrueNAS high availability systems ensure this doesn’t happen while simplifying setup and operations. Redundant storage controllers provide top-to-bottom redundancy and are synchronized via a continuous heartbeat to keep your VMS and NVR running. TrueNAS systems can expand capacity without interruption. ZFS data scrubbing ensures video integrity is not compromised by disk failure. Snapshots and replications are also available to retain or archive video and metadata in response to a security event or VMS software upgrade.

TrueNAS supports iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SMB and S3 API protocols for storing video and related metadata for most major VMS software suites that support private on-premises storage. The TrueNAS family with OpenZFS has been installed over 1 million times in environments ranging from simple homes to complex enterprises. Every TrueNAS system comes with an all-inclusive license that includes features such as snapshots, replication and non-disruptive growth. iXsystems support is there to help you every step of the way.

The TrueNAS Mini and TrueNAS X-Series are ideal platforms for smaller video surveillance deployments. The TrueNAS M-Series scales for larger enterprises. Estimate the number of cameras you need for your system, then decide how to deploy them.

Schools can protect their students, staff and buildings with high-resolution cameras that monitor unexpected intruders. A single VMS efficiently monitors multiple locations 24/7. The same TrueNAS and TrueCommand software can be used on any campus, regardless of size and budget.

Active officer body cameras record their video feeds to a portable SSD. Upload the video to a TrueNAS system for reliable storage, rapid analysis, and archiving. Leverage the savings for other IT tools needed to protect citizens.

Take command with TrueCommand ™

TrueCommand is a ZFS-enabled platform that enables teams to manage one or more NAS systems while improving system security and reliability.

– NAS Fleet Dashboard
– Single sign-on for all NAS devices
– Role-based access control (RBAC)
– Custom alerts and reports
– Fast fault management and diagnostics
– Real-time data collection and analysis