RealSense SDK and Windows Server 2012

[Viktor_B_]

Hello,

Will this work on Windows Server 2012?

I would like to receive the video stream from the workstations, and process the data on the multiprocessor server.

[Viktor_B_]

I would like to know both official and unofficial opinion on the matter of this question.

[Mike_V_]

Since it isn't Windows 8.1 I don't think it will work. However you can try to install the sdk on the server and see if sample apps work. :)

An other approach may be a workaround: you could have the workstation processing the data and sending only relevant event to the server, which will also save some bandwidth.

Hope this help,

Mike

[daflippers]

My thoughts are that this is very unlikely to be possible.

The SDK is based around a local USB connection and therefore would need some rework to handle streamed data from an external source.  Any SDK rework would need to be done by Intel and unless Intel have already implemented this or have a plan to implement it is not going to happen.

I could be wrong though.

David 

[Viktor_B_]

Mike, daflippers,

Thanks for replies.

I don't yet have Windows Server to test this. Maybe, someone has already tried to do this.

Captured data to be prepared on a workstation side is a good idea. This will reduce load on the network and on the server. But afterwards this data needs to be compared to the data from database. Workstations shouldn't have access to this database for security reasons. This should be performed server-side. Server role could be certainly assigned to Windows 8. But Windows Server is preferred for performance reasons.

And I don't think that external source data will cause any problems. Anyway, saved file always could be used.

I don't even know what Windows 8 has, that Windows Server 2012 doesn't have for RealSense considering such work scheme. Of course, RealSense developers know it better.

[Pubudu-Silva_Intel]

As it is clearly stated in the documentation, RealSense SDK currently only works with Windows 8.1

[Diagramics]

"I don't yet have Windows Server to test this"

If you just need a Windows Server for a quick test, I would recommend to use Microsoft Azure - this is probably the fastest way to set you test environment.

http://azure.microsoft.com

Windows Azure Trial Subscription is free for 1 month.

Create a VM and install an OS from a stock image.

Azure has everything you need, Windows Server 2012, SQL, Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013.