The developers behind Jabbakam, the cloud-based online video surveillance and security system, have re-developed and re-launched the product as a corporate-grade surveillance solution under the name Cloudview. Tom Reeve sat down with Cloudview founder James Wickes recently to find out why he thinks his solution will revolutionize the corporate security market.

Jabbakam was developed in 2010 as a video management system to allow people to record CCTV surveillance video to an internet server and view the footage online. It also allows users to network IP-cameras together and share the footage either privately or with a wider audience. The Jabbakam VMS works with its own brand cameras or a selected range of IP-cameras from companies such as Y-Cam and Axis.

Despite being designed primarily for the domestic market, Jabbakam attracted a great deal of interest from the corporate market, Wickes said.

“On the basis of that, we developed Cloudview and changed the company name.” With Cloudview, the product is first and foremost an analog camera solution.

Using a Cloudview video network adapter (VNA), users can stream analog cameras to the cloud storage system using automatic event triggers or manual activation. The VNA includes a built-in video encoder, SD card slot for local storage, and network adapter as well as a USB slot for plugging in a wireless network adapter or 3G wifi device.

Wickes said that Jabbakam had taught him the importance of keeping things simple. […]