April 5, 2004—Lenel Systems International has announced the commercial release of OnGuard ET Third Edition, the newest generation of the companys OnGuard Total Security Knowledge Management Solution. The comprehensive product release provides customers with pioneering product and feature enhancements that will increase productivity and profitability throughout the business enterprise.
Among the significant enhancements introduced with OnGuard ET Third Edition are network video recorder failover support, support for the MPEG-4 multimedia standard, Lenels OnGuard OpenCard format, a three-factor access control verification reader, AES 128-bit communication encryption, in-line smart card encoding, point of sale integration and expanded support for third party devices and systems.
OnGuard ET Third Edition includes dual path failover support for the Lenel Network Video Recorder (LNVR), a key enhancement to the OnGuard Video feature set. The new release offers the ability to configure a second LNVR for a camera to failover to in the event that the primary LNVR fails.
OnGuard Video supports a new software-based, eight channel MPEG-4 standard video board that provides interlaced 640 x 480 resolution.
Pelco SpectraDome III analog cameras can now be configured and controlled from within OnGuard Video, without the need for a matrix switch. OnGuard ET Third Edition also supports the ability to configure and control analog PTZ cameras via OnGuard Video applications using Axis 2400+ or 2401+ video servers.
OnGuard ET Third Edition includes a Lenel Video Export Conversion Utility with which video clips can be exported into Advanced Systems Format (.asf) files, including a time and date stamp. The ASF files can then be viewed using any industry standard video player.
The Lenel OnGuard OpenCard format is the first offering in the security industry that creates a non-proprietary, open standard for the information encoded on smart card credentials. The OpenCard format offers users the opportunity to achieve hardware and system independence, by ensuring that they are not restricted to one vendor for their readers or cards.
In creating the OpenCard format, Lenel has defined a complete suite of applications that can be used for contactless smart card solutions, including access control, biometrics, demographics and PIN management. OpenCard supports in-line encoding during the badge printing process. The format creates a specification for true smart card interoperability across all systems and applications for which smart cards are used.
The OpenCard format complies with the GSC 2.1 government smart card interoperability specification.
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