The M2M market has seen phenomenal growth in recent years, and is now widely recognised as a key growth area for mobile telecommunications operators. Video systems are notoriously data hungry, and, as such, have been traditionally limited to wired networks. Operators are identifying potential use-cases for M2M, and highlighting video as one of the most profitable, appealing to high-profile customers with the most demanding requirements. But how do M2M teams meet the challenge of providing a high-quality and reliable video service over a network which has varying levels of capacity, serves many other customers and has many varied services?

For many years, Digital Barriers has supplied defence and law enforcement agencies with the capability to stream quality live video over wireless networks with bandwidths as low as 10kbps. Because standard compression methods cannot meet the demands and characteristics of video transmission over wireless data networks such as GSM, Satcom and Tetra, the company developed its own proprietary video compression and management solution. TVI allows network operators to provide high-quality video transmission services across their entire network without the need for costly changes to network infrastructure or increases in network capacity.