Outdoor Surveillance Storage and Memory Qualification
Continuous-recording surveillance equipment deployed in outdoor cabinets required storage and memory to be qualified as a single configuration before installation.
Application Overview
Continuous-recording surveillance equipment installed in outdoor cabinets with limited service accessibility.
Project Requirements
Surveillance recording is continuous, so the storage device is not idle at any point in the duty cycle.
The equipment operates in an outdoor cabinet environment with limited service accessibility, increasing the operational consequence of a storage failure. On-site replacement entails a full site visit, so validation prior to deployment was specified as a project requirement.
Project Configuration
M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 SSD at 256GB and 512GB, with DDR4 3200 16GB U-DIMM.
Project configuration as recorded for this programme. Current product availability is listed under Products.
Qualification & Implementation
- More than 50 critical compatibility tests completed on a platform configured to represent site conditions.
- Storage and memory validated as one configuration rather than as two separate qualifications.
- Local technical response maintained on a 24-hour basis for a deployment that cannot be reached quickly.
Recorded Outcomes
Validation cycles were reduced by half and mass production commenced three months ahead of schedule. Total cost of ownership was reduced by 20%, and the second deployment phase adopted SIMORCHIP memory across the platform.
Key Engineering Factors
Storage and memory validated together, on a platform built to represent deployment conditions.
Validation completed before installation, where the cost of a field failure is a site visit.
One supplier across both product lines, so the second phase did not restart qualification.