Wave Client Hardware Specs

What are the recommended hardware specifications for Wave Client? 

The Wave client can be installed on most modern computers with 64-bit architecture. That being said, Wave, and all software in general, is only as stable as the hardware it is installed upon.

Although the Wave Client is an extremely lightweight application that uses a minimum amount of hardware resources, we do recommend using the following hardware specifications for most situations. 

Prerequisites

In order to use the Wave Client application, a computing device needs to have at least the following prerequisites: 

• A supported 64-bit Operating System
• OpenGL 2.1 Support or better
• An Intel or AMD CPU

Hardware Recommendations, displaying the low resolution stream.

We recommend using the following specifications and prerequisites mentioned above to have a smooth user experience when using the Wave client with up to 64 devices in a layout. 

Single Monitor Workstation: 

Dual Monitor Workstation: 

Quad Monitor Workstation: 

Note 1: Wave Client uses only the CPU for video decoding and can display up to 64 items on the viewing grid. The GPU is used for dewarping on the fly, drawing animations, controls, and rendering UI elements in the client.

Note 2: We assume that one instance of Wave Client runs on one monitor. If you want to run two instances of Wave Client on one monitor, use the recommended specs of the "Dual Monitor Workstation". For three or four instances of Wave Client, use the recommended specs for the "Quad Monitor Station". 

Note 3: Please take notice that dewarping a fish-eye camera will set its resolution to "High". As a result, the specifications as mentioned above might not apply and are dependent on the camera settings (e.g., resolution, framerate, etc). It is better to take the suggestions mentioned below in the decoding capabilities paragraph. 

Decoding capabilities

Although it is difficult to offer reliable recommended specifications with regard to the decoding capabilities of a system due to multiple variables of a stream, we tried to provide some guidance to select the right workstations for your requirements.  

The following camera settings were taken into consideration when creating these recommendations: 

• Resolution of 1920 x 1080 or less
• Framerate of 15 fps or fewer
• Bandwidth of 2 Mbps or fewer
• Group of Pictures (GOP) of 15 (IBBBBPBBBBPBBBBI)
• H.264 compression method

Up to 8 high-resolution streams: 

Up to 16 high-resolution streams: 

Up to 32 high-resolution streams: 

Note 1: Please keep in consideration that most monitors have a native resolution of 1920x1080. As a result, there is no benefit of displaying more than 1 Full HD camera in High Resolution on such a screen. The same applies to displaying more than 4 Full HD cameras on a 4K screen or more than 16 Full HD cameras on an 8K screen.  

Why no minimum hardware requirements? 

Although Wave Client is a very lightweight application that can run on an Atom Powered Intel Compute stick, there are too many variables and use cases to determine viable minimum requirements. 

A user who only reviews footage based on events/notifications and exports only small sections of footage would have very different requirements than a professional operator that interacts with many cameras/resources at the same time.