Video management software that keeps your footage on site

A video management system is the software layer above the cameras: it ingests the streams, records them, shows operators a live wall, and makes recorded footage searchable and exportable as evidence. Most are licensed per camera and either run on a server you maintain or push all your footage into a vendor’s cloud. DevSpark VMS is licensed per site, and keeps recording and detection on an appliance inside the customer’s own building while the interface is delivered from the cloud. You get the operational model of a cloud platform without handing over the footage or the bandwidth bill.

Per site, per year — not per camera — which works out near £30 per camera equivalent at launch pricing. Cloud VMS platforms typically charge $15 to $25 per camera per month, around £140 to £235 a year, though that includes cloud storage and ours does not, because footage stays on the customer’s own site. On-premise platforms licence per device, commonly around £85 a camera, plus support. The first site is free while you evaluate it.

Because we are not storing your video. A cloud platform’s subscription rents you storage in their data centre, which is the expensive part and which stops the day you stop paying. Our architecture keeps footage on an appliance in your building, so you buy disks once and own them. It is a different shape rather than simply a lower price.

Any camera conformant to ONVIF Profile S or T, and anything else publishing a reachable RTSP stream. We keep a written compatibility matrix of every model actually put through the platform, with measurements taken against live firmware rather than datasheets. It also records what is not proven on each device and names hardware we would not put in front of a public-sector buyer, with the reason. Ask and we will send it — it is not a marketing document.

It runs alongside one first, which is the point of a free first site — nothing is removed to evaluate it. The gateway reads the same cameras your recorder is reading, so both can run on the same estate while you compare them. Where an estate then decides to retire the recorder, recording continues on the gateway appliance and the cameras are untouched, because they were never bound to the recorder in the first place.

Yes. Your logo, your colours, your domain and your company on the login screen and in front of your client. Branding is a configuration record rather than a forked build, so your instance is never a stale copy waiting on us to merge something. Your client need not know we exist, and we will not approach them.

You do, because you installed it — and we support you. That is the honest shape of the arrangement. Any vendor promising to answer your client’s phone is either overpromising or planning to own that client eventually.

Object detection, running at the edge on the gateway in the building rather than in a data centre: people, vehicles and object classes, with a confidence figure and the version of the model stamped on every event, and intrusion zones, line crossing and loitering across recorded review. Number plate and face recognition are on the roadmap and extend the same pipeline. Ask us where a specific analytic stands before you write it into a specification and we will tell you in writing — that answer is worth more to both of us than a brochure claim.

DevSpark Ltd is an ONVIF member, and the platform interoperates with cameras that are themselves ONVIF conformant, using the published specifications for discovery, streaming and PTZ. The platform itself has not been through ONVIF conformance testing and carries no Profile claim of its own, so if a specification demands a conformance-tested VMS we would tell you before you wrote us into a bid.

Recording stays on the appliance on the customer network. The cloud layer provides the interface, identity and an index of what exists, and never receives camera credentials. DevSpark Ltd is UK-owned, and the platform is designed, built and supported from Manchester.