Very, very hard actually. justin.tv was happy about 14000 simultaneous feeds. How would you make the data transmission backbone to accommodate something 1000 t

Very, very hard actually. justin.tv was happy about 14000 simultaneous feeds. How would you make the data transmission backbone to accommodate something 1000 times bigger? The big push for automated surveillance is in fact a response to network usage. It used to be that you record onto tapes. Everyone thought that stunk, so they started recording to DVRs. But then you need to transmit lots of imagery to central servers. It would make more sense to put some intelligence on the camera end and only transmit when something interesting is going on. For example, reliable motion detection would only send video when there is something new in the scene. But either way, yes, everything should be online all the time.