Wisp Cloud Video Surveillance Storage
Retain footage for years, reduce cost as it ages, and keep every archived frame browsable without replacing your cameras or VMS.
What is cloud video surveillance storage?
Cloud video surveillance storage keeps camera footage in the cloud, not only on recorders or a VMS. Wisp moves old video to lower-cost tiers, keeps a proxy ready to browse, and logs evidence events so footage stays usable and traceable.
Long-term archive, not short-term recording
Wisp sits between the VMS and the retention deadline. Existing cameras stay in place. Operational video, evidence copies, proxies, and deletion rules are managed separately so each copy can use the right access and preservation controls.
Lower storage cost as footage ages
Long-term surveillance retention becomes expensive when rarely viewed footage remains in higher-cost operational storage. Wisp separates storage grades and moves footage through a tiered lifecycle, changing the cost curve as video ages while permanent proxies remain available for browsing.
- Existing cameras and VMS platforms stay in place
- Operational footage transitions to lower-cost deep archive by policy
- Permanent proxies remain available for timeline browsing
- HEVC compression can reduce storage demand where applicable
- Legal hold can preserve designated footage outside ordinary deletion
- Immutable storage and a transformation ledger support traceability
- Security, IT, compliance, and legal teams use one governed archive
- Pricing assumptions and retrieval terms are reviewed before deployment
How Wisp archives surveillance footage
Wisp connects to existing cameras and VMS platforms, tiers footage by policy, keeps a permanent proxy browsable, and records retrieval, export, transformation, and legal-hold events.
- Connect the existing estate Connect camera and VMS sources without a wholesale replacement.
- Ingest and record provenance Associate source, time, policy, and access context with archived footage.
- Tier footage and keep a proxy Move aging source video to deep archive while its permanent proxy stays browsable.
- Retrieve, hold, and export Locate video by proxy, then request the source through controlled evidence workflows.
Wisp compared with other storage approaches
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers about long-term surveillance retention, permanent proxies, evidence controls, legal hold, compatibility, and storage planning.
What is cloud video surveillance storage?
Does Wisp replace existing cameras or VMS platforms?
How can Wisp reduce long-term surveillance storage costs?
What is a permanent proxy?
How does Wisp support video chain of custody?
Does Wisp support legal holds for surveillance footage?
How long can surveillance footage be retained?
What is the difference between operational and evidentiary video storage?
Can archived footage remain browsable in cold storage?
What information is needed to calculate long-term retention cost?
Plan a sustainable retention strategy
A useful retention assessment starts with camera count, bitrate, recording schedule, current storage, required retention, and expected evidence retrieval. Wisp uses those inputs to separate operational and evidentiary needs, review compatibility, and model a tiered archive. Current pricing and retrieval terms are confirmed during the assessment.