Client Interfaces

Client Interfaces

Picolo.net products provide the following client interfaces:

Web Services

The "Web Services" client interface is a programmatic interface based on the W3C-standardized Web Services technology intended to be used by programmers of Video Management Software.

It provides the following categories of services:

Configuration services
Maintenance and diagnostic services

Web Pages

The "Web Pages" client interface is a graphical user interface based on the HTTP Web Server technology.

It is intended for:

Out-of-the-box experience without programming
Demonstration
Diagnostic

Discovery Interface

This client interface allows a device to:

Announce its presence in the network. So, applications are aware and can access the device.
Scan the network for available devices. When an application starts, it knows what devices are there to be used.
Learn which multicast streams are available without RTSP sessions through RFC2974 Session Announcement Protocol.

RTSP Server

This client interface allows an application to query the device for available data streams and to control (start, stop, pause...) data streaming.