HaiVision Network Video announced its BARRACUDA™ compact H.264 encoder and Obzerv's active imaging night vision camera systems prove interoperable under extreme conditions. Obzerv's systems employ state-of-the-art laser cameras for long-range identification and recognition in surveillance applications. The video emitted by such cameras is rigorous and the ability of an encoder to perform acceptably with such video is seldom guaranteed. The companies have worked together to confirm successful interoperability.

The video delivered by long range camera systems is exceptionally difficult for video encoders due to rapid field of view changes and visual jitter combined with the low contrast imagery associated with night and thermal vision. The BARRACUDA not only handles the video well, but provides extremely bandwidth efficient H.264 compressed video streams. Additionally, cameras are often monitored at centers over 100 kilometers from the actual camera towers. Due to the BARRACUDA's amazing low latency (less than 70 milliseconds), hand-eye coordination required for any remote control of the camera head is maintained.