However, they are only the eyes of the security system because a central video recorder that all the cameras link to handles video recording. Each node needs to be monitored, updated, and maintained. Centralized networks are also less expensive to run and maintain because they have fewer components. However, a surveillance system based on a camera network can reduce the number of. The entire mobotix surveillance system is composed of independently operating intelligent cameras (which mobotix calls their iot cameras) which all simply connect to the companies network.