Live Video Surveillance & Monitoring Solutions
Real-time visibility, intelligence, and control for mission-critical environments.
From safety to operations to compliance, organizations rely on video to observe, understand, and respond. Wowza provides the infrastructure that connects your cameras, sensors, and field devices into a reliable, intelligent media backbone, across on-premises, air-gapped, hybrid, and edge environments.
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Trusted by thousands of customers for mission-critical camera networks across public safety, defense, healthcare, and enterprise security.
The Media Backbone for Ingesting, Processing, and Delivering Video at Scale
Connect & Ingest
Bring every feed into one system
Whether you’re consolidating across storefront entrances, highway intersections, NICU monitors, or remote pipelines, Wowza ingests all your video sources into one reliable workflow, unifying thousands of feeds without replacing hardware or redesigning your network.
- IP cameras, IoT sensors, broadcast encoders
- Mobile devices, drones, dashcams, bodycams
- RTSP, RTMP/S, SRT, WebRTC, UDP, MPEG-TS
- Stable ingest across on-prem, air-gapped, and hybrid networks
Process & Customize
Add intelligence, context, and automation
As video streams come in, Wowza makes it easy to transform and enrich them. Turn your raw footage into structured intelligence that operators and automated systems can act on immediately.
- Transcoding and protocol conversion
- Recording, clipping, tagging, and archiving
- Object detection, captioning, and event logging
- Custom routing via APIs, SDKs, Java modules, MCP
Deliver Everywhere
Securely route video to the people and systems that need it
From command centers to patrol vehicles to AI engines, Wowza ensures video reaches the right destination, delivering predictable performance at any scale and under any network conditions.
- Low-latency WebRTC
- LL-HLS, HLS, DASH, secure IP delivery
- Distribution to NOCs, dashboards, vehicles, and field devices
- Seamless integration with VMS, analytics, IAM, and storage systems
Set up your first stream in minutes.
Proven Across Industries
Surveillance & Security
Catching Bad Actors in Real Time
Retail loss prevention, perimeter security, warehouse monitoring, multi-site facility protection.
Law Enforcement & Public Safety
Evidence & Accountability That Holds Up
Bodycams, dashcams, interview rooms, evidence intake, incident command operations.
Government & Defense
Supporting Mission-Critical Operations
Base security, tactical communications, secure mission control, federal monitoring systems, aerospace.
Election Monitoring & Transparency
Trust Through Visibility
Polling places, ballot processing centers, tabulation rooms, public observation feeds.
Smart Cities & Traffic Management
Powering Urban Intelligence
Intersection cameras, transit routes, parking systems, municipal monitoring networks.
Industrial & Remote Operations
Eyes on Assets, Anywhere
Oil & gas facilities, mining sites, utilities infrastructure, agricultural monitoring, remote pipelines.
Healthcare & Medical Technology
Advancing Care & Compliance
NICU monitoring, surgical streaming, patient observation, telemedicine, regulated facilities.
Environmental & Wildlife Monitoring
Remote Monitoring Without Disruption
Conservation sites, research stations, remote habitats, long-range environmental sensors.
Campus & Corporate Security
Protecting People & Property
University campuses, corporate facilities, access control, parking structures, multi-building networks.
Why Leading Organizations Trust Wowza for Mission-Critical Video
Flexibility
Deploy Wowza wherever your operational requirements demand without rewiring your infrastructure or replacing cameras.
- On-premises, hybrid, edge, private cloud, air-gapped
- Supports modern + legacy cameras, all major protocols
- No lock-in; compatible with your existing ecosystem
Extensibility
Wowza adapts to your architecture, not the other way around.
- Integrates with VMS, storage, analytics, IAM, and access control
- BYOM support for vision and speech-to-text models
- Deep APIs, SDKs, Java modules, MCP for custom workflow automation
Reliability
Mission-critical environments depend on systems that can’t fail. Wowza is engineered for operational continuity during security incidents, emergency response, audits, and live oversight.
- 99.99% uptime across global deployments
- Predictable latency and resilience under network pressure
- Proven across nearly 10k mission-critical camera networks
- SOC 2 Type II, encryption in transit/at rest, role-based access, air-gapped support
Reliable Support
Complex environments require experienced partners, and Wowza’s support team is built for high-stakes video operations.
- 24/7 escalation to trained engineers
- Architectural guidance and onboarding support
- Trusted by public sector, healthcare, defense, and global enterprises
How Wowza Fits Into Your Stack
Most organizations end up with fragmented video systems—different cameras, encoders, networks, players, analytics tools, and storage platforms that don’t speak the same language.
Wowza serves as the media layer that connects them all. Use your existing hardware with flexible upgrade paths, and integrate Wowza through APIs, SDKs, and Java modules that slot into VMS, analytics, AI engines, IAM, storage, and observability systems.
Embed Wowza in Your Monitoring Platform
Many security, surveillance, and monitoring platforms embed Wowza directly into their systems—using it as the backbone for video ingest, processing, and delivery across cameras, sensors, and edge devices. This allows teams to modernize video pipelines, support real-time and recorded workflows, and scale reliably without building and maintaining streaming infrastructure themselves.
Real-World Deployments
Stories from teams using Wowza to solve complex video challenges in real-world production environments across live, on-demand, and large-scale deployments.
“What made us choose Wowza in the end was the real-time streaming with next to no
delay. It’s essential for doctors managing multiple emergencies at once.”
Florian Blaum,
Product & Project Manager at medDV
“With Wowza, servers became appliances. We script, provision, move, and rebuild
cameras through the API, keep our video walls fed, and let operators focus on incidents
instead of plumbing.”
Clint Johnson,
MDOT
“With Wowza, we can scale real-time video across our platform without compromising on privacy, security, or uptime. It’s been a vital part of delivering high-quality, person-centered care.”
Kendra Seavey,
CEO at care.coach
FAQ
Answers to common questions about Wowza, streaming workflows, and platform capabilities.
Can I integrate existing cameras, sensors, and field devices with a new video surveillance solution?
Yes. Wowza integrates with existing IP cameras and field devices using standard streaming protocols such as RTSP, SRT, RTMP, and WebRTC, allowing organizations to modernize surveillance systems without replacing existing hardware.
What protocols are supported for live video streaming in surveillance networks?
Wowza supports RTSP/RTP, SRT, WebRTC, RTMP/RTMPS, and HLS, enabling secure, low-latency video ingestion and delivery across surveillance networks.
How do surveillance solutions handle low-latency delivery to command centers and mobile units?
Wowza delivers low-latency surveillance video using WebRTC for real-time monitoring and SRT for reliable transport from remote or unstable networks.
Can video surveillance systems scale to thousands of cameras or multi-site networks?
Yes. Wowza supports horizontally scalable, multi-site deployments that can handle thousands of camera feeds across distributed locations, including cloud, on-prem, and edge environments.
Can surveillance solutions deliver video to multiple endpoints simultaneously?
Yes. Wowza can simultaneously deliver the same live surveillance feed to command centers, mobile devices, analytics platforms, and remote viewers using multiple streaming protocols.
How do live surveillance systems ensure reliability during high-traffic or emergency situations?
Wowza improves reliability through resilient streaming protocols like SRT and WebRTC, support for redundant server architectures, load balancing, and deployment across edge and core infrastructure.
How can surveillance video be integrated with VMS, IAM, or analytics platforms?
Wowza integrates with VMS, identity and access management, and video analytics platforms through APIs and standard streaming outputs, enabling secure access control and downstream processing.
What support and monitoring options are available for mission-critical surveillance video?
Wowza offers enterprise support plans, professional services, detailed monitoring via logs and APIs, and deployment flexibility to support mission-critical video operations.