by Shane Henson — September 24, 2012—Avigilon, a manufacturer of high-definition surveillance solutions created to deliver the best evidence, will make it simpler for security professionals to manage video footage with the newest version of its Avigilon Control Center (ACC) to the worldwide security market in early 2013.
This is the company’s fifth major release of one of the world’s most popular video management software (VMS) tools for security professionals. The ACC 5.0 software with high-definition stream management (HDSM) technology unites the best from the information technology, Web design and video game industries so security professionals can easily and intuitively manage video footage from unlimited analog and megapixel cameras, Avigilon says. The software helps private and public organizations increase productivity and resolve incidents with new features due to faster investigations and unsurpassed image quality.
Organizations can keep their mission-critical surveillance systems fully operational 24/7 with the crash-proof enterprise server management feature. With this feature, up to 100 servers can be synchronized as a single cluster with no dedicated management server. With all servers operating as one unit, there is no single point of failure. Now if one server fails, the others have the user settings, events, alarms and other important information needed to continue working. This feature also makes adding and maintaining servers as easy as plugging them in. Newly added servers will automatically acquire the user’s information and settings with no setup required.
The unique approach to intelligent virtual matrix allows ACC 5.0 to be the industry’s first VMS to introduce collaborative investigations in real time, the company notes. With this feature, incidents can be resolved quickly and efficiently. This major shift in workplace cooperation allows multiple operators to interact and view the same video footage to make informed decisions on safety and security. Collaborative investigations will help security professionals in the public and private sectors do their job more efficiently. They can push their feed to other users on their teams or law enforcement agencies as opposed to sharing exported video clips via e-mail or physically traveling to another user’s workstation to view video footage.
Security professionals with video walls, a grouping of multiple monitors or television sets that displays surveillance footage, or remote monitors can transform static video walls into intelligent video walls with ACC 5.0’s virtual matrix. Taking the existing matrix functionality of ACC to the next level of interactivity, users can now change layouts, manipulate video, zoom, rewind, and isolate footage as well as display content like maps, web pages and point-of-sale transactions on video walls and remote monitors. Intelligent virtual matrix functionality allows casinos, airports, large campuses and enterprises the ability to identify and react to incidents even faster.
Additional features of ACC 5.0 include:
- HDSM for efficient bandwidth management and remote viewing
- Multimegapixel high-dynamic range image display
- Data protection and storage management
- Integrated graphic mapping for system layout
- HD recording and playback timeline
- Ability to bookmark and export HD surveillance footage
- Even faster video search capabilities
