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IndigoVision Introduces New Alarm Management Features for IP-CCTV

By Niladri Sekhar Nath, TMCnet Contributing Editor

IndigoVision has unveiled the latest upgrade to ‘Control Center’, its IP Video and alarm management software. The upgrade is expected to enhance the alarm handling capabilities with features that help improve efficiency and response times when dealing with incidents.

 

IndigoVision’s comprehensive IP Video and alarm management system is an open-architecture solution that can be integrated with other security systems such as alarm systems, access control and intruder detection. The integrating systems enable the user to trigger operations in one system from events generated in another. In addition, there are many advantages to consolidating the alarms in the CCTV system and the operator interface is the most used of all the security systems.

 

The Control Center 3.10 includes a number of alarm management features including Alarm Groups, Cascaded Alarms and Looped Replay on Alarm. The new Alarm Groups feature allows the end user to designate groups of monitors or video panes for alarm display only. Each group can be configured to display different types of alarms, such as from access control or intruder systems. Within each group alarms can be cascaded or queued in the monitors or video panes.

 

The Looped Replay on Alarm feature further shows how incident response can be enhanced with good alarm handling. When an alarm is raised for example, from a forced door in an access control system, live video from the camera monitoring that door is automatically displayed next to a looped replay of recorded video from the same camera. The looped video is displayed for a pre-determined time either side of the incident. The operator can then instantly see the cause of the alarm and monitor the live situation.

 

These new alarm features allow ‘Control Center’ to operate in a ‘black’ or ‘dark’ screen monitoring mode, where video is only displayed on alarm. This method of operation offers a more efficient operator environment that leads to faster incident response.

 

Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

 

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