The use of video and physical access control for safety, security and liability reduction is rapidly growing. As a result, the requirement to monitor entry points, sensitive and dangerous areas and locations is proliferating. With this, a growing need to access and manage these systems both locally and remotely has emerged.
While video surveillance monitoring has traditionally been limited to security operations centers, the ability to use IP networks opens up a myriad of challenges and opportunities for accessing live and recorded video as well as controlling access to restricted areas.
AOS’ physical security solutions allow operations managers and system integrators to build customized video surveillance and access control networks that meet their exact requirements. The software suite enables highly scalable and flexible video systems that are easily managed, monitored and permit the retrieval of live or recorded video anywhere, anytime via a web based browser interface on PCs, PDAs, and smart phones. This video system completely integrates into the access control solution allowing video of entry points to be archived when door entry activities occur.
The use of one or both of these physical access solutions takes advantage of new innovations, such as the use video to enhance situational awareness, alerting security staff to left-open or forced-open doors while fostering greater collaborative communications.
Video Surveillance Operations Manager
The Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager enables organizations to quickly configure and effectively manage complex video applications throughout the enterprise. It meets the diverse needs of administrators and operators by providing multiple Web-based consoles to configure, manage, display, and control video throughout a customer’s IP network. A single manager can manage a large number of media servers, virtual matrixes, cameras, and users.
Video Surveillance Media Server
The Cisco Video Surveillance Encoding Server (ES) is an all-in-one appliance that encodes, distributes, manages, and archives digital video feeds. Each server encodes up to 64 channels and provides up to 9 TB of storage. It offers the power and flexibility to meet a diverse range of video surveillance requirements and is cost-effective and simple to install.
Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix
The Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix software enables an intelligent, digital-video management system that allows any operator or integrated application to control what video is displayed on any number of physical and virtual monitors, both local and remote. The Virtual Matrix is easily integrated with other systems to automatically display video in response to well defined triggers. These triggers can include access control and fire systems in buildings, outdoor motion sensors, or even radar systems for military applications. It brings complete, flexible delivery of live and recorded video to demanding command centers. It also, provides high-availability access to network video for 24x7 monitoring applications.
Video Surveillance Storage System
The Cisco Video Surveillance Storage System (SS) provides flexible options for storing video and audio using cost-effective, IT-caliber storage devices. Combine Media Server internal storage with DAS, SAN, and NAS to store the video in multiple locations where it can be secured and accessed most efficiently. Video can be stored in loops, one-time archives, or event clips triggered by external systems. Provide redundant storage and remote long-term archives. Expand the storage as your systems or requirements grow. Institute stored video lifecycle (retention) management rules to ensure availability of the data.
Cisco Physical Access Manager
Cisco Physical Access Manager is the management application for the Cisco Physical Access Control solution. Its easy-to-use interface lets you configure Cisco Physical Access gateways and modules, monitor activity, enroll users, and integrate with IT applications and data stores. Cisco Physical Access Manager provides:
- Flexible options for enrolling users and assigning fine-grained credentials to tailor privileges to organizational roles
- Support for a comprehensive list of access control policies
- Simplified, data-driven integration with other IT systems, without requiring programming or custom development
- Flexible reporting capability that lets you generate template-based and custom reports
- Redundancy between two Cisco Physical Access Module instances, for failover support and reduced downtime
- Easy access to live or recorded video through integration with Cisco Video Surveillance Manager
