Uninterrupted video surveillance is essential in healthcare settings, where continuous monitoring is crucial to safeguarding patients, staff, and sensitive areas. To prevent gaps in coverage caused by server failures, security professionals need a reliable solution. Salient’s Recording Server Failover provides a seamless and scalable approach, ensuring that security operations remain intact during unexpected disruptions.
Ensuring High Availability and Data Protection in Healthcare
Salient’s CompleteView Video Management System (VMS) includes a robust failover feature that ensures continuous video recording and monitoring, even in the event of a server failure. When a primary recording server goes offline, a standby server automatically assumes its role, minimizing downtime and preserving access to critical video data.
To further enhance resilience, the failover system leverages Storage Pools, which allow recorded video to be written to shared storage resources. This ensures that footage captured by the standby server remains immediately accessible to the primary server once it is restored—eliminating the need for manual video transfers. By dynamically distributing video across multiple drives or storage locations, Storage Pools also reduce the risk of data loss and make it easier to scale surveillance infrastructure as healthcare facilities grow.
Key Benefits of Salient’s Recording Server Failover for Healthcare
- Uninterrupted Surveillance: Ensures continuous monitoring in emergency rooms, ICUs, and other critical areas.
- Data Protection: Prevents video loss by instantly redirecting streams to backup servers.
- Regulatory Compliance: Helps maintain compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare security regulations.
- Scalability: Supports hospitals and healthcare systems of all sizes, from small clinics to multi-campus facilities.
- Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for redundant hardware by utilizing existing infrastructure.
Use Case: How Recording Server Failover Helps Healthcare Facilities
Emergency Departments: Emergency rooms are high-risk environments where patient safety and incident documentation are paramount. Failover protection ensures that security personnel always have access to video footage, helping with incident response, patient protection, and legal compliance.
Pharmacies and Medication Storage Areas: Hospitals must secure pharmacies and medication storage areas to prevent theft, tampering, and unauthorized access. Continuous surveillance with failover protection guarantees that all activity is recorded, even if a primary server goes offline.
Restricted Access Zones: Areas such as surgical suites, medical records centers, and research labs require strict security measures. Failover technology ensures that video monitoring remains active, reducing the risk of unauthorized entry, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
Visitor and Staff Monitoring: Hospitals manage high volumes of visitors and staff, making security oversight crucial. Failover ensures uninterrupted monitoring of entrances, hallways, and patient wards, helping security teams manage access control and incident investigations effectively.
Strengthen Hospital Security with Salient
With features like centralized management, real-time monitoring, and multi-server support, Salient’s failover solution is an essential component for healthcare organizations prioritizing security, compliance, and patient safety. With features like centralized management, real-time monitoring, multi-server support, and storage pooling, Salient’s failover solution is an essential component for healthcare organizations prioritizing security, compliance, and patient safety.
Hospitals can’t afford downtime. By integrating Salient’s Recording Server Failover, healthcare facilities gain peace of mind, knowing their video surveillance remains active—no matter what happens. Whether monitoring patient safety, securing sensitive areas, or ensuring compliance, Salient’s failover technology provides uninterrupted protection for the healthcare industry.
