Genetec Inc, the IP security product company, has announced version 5.5 of Security Center, the firm’s IP security platform that combines access control, video surveillance, vehicle number plate recognition, and communications.
Security Center 5.5 offers a new disaster recovery mode, new levels of authentication and encryption, augmented video archiving and export management, and new choices of supported access control hardware. Security Center 5.5 is available now via the company’s channel partner distributors.
A new disaster recovery mode allows the configuration of multiple failover directory servers at remote sites. Users can make more elaborate disaster recovery plans for their security platform, the product developers say. In the event of a disaster, failover servers at geographically disparate sites can take control .
In this latest release, map-centric monitoring offers map scaling for zooming in and out of maps—from floorplans to satellite imagery—and the option to geo-reference dynamic objects on a map with actual geographic coordinates for greater awareness, and add new map layers. With map layering, operators can add or remove details from a map in real-time to narrow or broaden views of a site.
Security Center 5.5 features alarm grouping and filtering so that operators can group alarms visually by type, state, or priority, as well as handle entire collections of alarms, such as acknowledging or forwarding an entire group.
Genetec offers two sorts of its Software Development Kit (SDK). The Basic SDK is a freely-available package used to connect to Security Center and access configuration data, events and alarms in real-time, as well as make changes or add new tasks to the monitoring client app. An advanced SDK package offers all the elements of the Basic SDK with access to other tools required by more complex integrations, and is available through Genetec certified channel partners. Visit www.genetec.com.
