Arecont Vision, Glendale, CA, a developer of camera technology, has announced it will be debuting a full line of H.264 Internet Protocol (IP) cameras at INTERSEC Middle East which opens on January 14th in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four models offering 1.3, 2, 3 and 5 megapixels, the new line features Arecont Vision's proprietary H.264 compression technology. The cameras support multi-streaming capabilities for the transmission of several video streams at different video formats, frame rates, and/or resolutions.

Arecont Vision's H.264 encoder delivers 80 billion operations per second or the equivalent of 25 Pentium computers. The compression improvement (stream size reduction) with high video resolution is up to 25 times greater than conventional compression when capturing a typical street surveillance scene with moving vehicles and people.

The cameras are available for evaluation with full-scale production of the single- and dual-sensor camera models slated for the second quarter of 2008. Arecont will release quad-sensor panoramic cameras with their proprietary H.264 compression technology later in 2008.