🧠 The Role of SoC in IPC Network Cameras and a Guide to Choosing the Right One

The SoC is the “brain” of an IPC network camera—handling image processing, AI inference, encoding, and network transport. Selection should weigh compute and codec support (H.265/H.266), multi-stream capability, interfaces (PoE/USB/PCIe), SDK/API support, plus power/thermal and cost, ensuring stable performance, easy integration, and room to scale.