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CathexisVision Video Management Software Integrations
The CathexisVision Integration Feature provides a powerful enhancement to the world-class, feature-rich CathexisVision Video Surveillance Management Software.
CathexisVision goes beyond surveillance to offer a sophisticated and fully integrated infrastructure and security management system. The software truly delivers maximum return on client investment.
Seamless third-partythird-party systems integration, easy installation, and exceptional ease-of-use have made CathexisVision the preferred surveillance software solution for global market sectors, including retail, banking, mining, education, residential, commercial, healthcare, transport, logistics, and city surveillance.
At Cathexis Technologies, we believe that any system transaction or event can be enhanced by the association of synchronised video. Because of this, integration has become one of the defining and differentiating features of CathexisVision. Integrations include: Access Control, Alarm Panels, Fire Panels, Analytics, and Building Management Systems.
This seamless integration provides an extremely powerful, single-user interface. It is enhanced by video verification of events that occur, as well as rules-based events that can be initiated from event data. The integration provides a dramatically enhanced control room environment by improving efficiency and effectiveness.
Integration enables the system to guide the CCTV operators to specific cameras associated with third-party system events, which speeds up response times.. Control room operators enjoy an improved and efficient environment by through having the system automatically choose cameras to view based on events or alarms from Access Control Systems, Alarm Panels, and Fence Monitoring Systems.
Integration Applications
CathexisVision includes integration with hundreds of different types of IP cameras from most of the world’s popular IP camera manufacturers. Capability is camera dependent but may include:
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Manufacturer specific SDK integration
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ONVIF support
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Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) interface
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Multiple video streams
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Synchronised and bidirectional audio
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Ability to receive event triggers from the cameras
Cathexis has integrated numerous Access Control Systems, which have been successfully implemented on a global scale. The major benefit provided by the Access Control integration is its ability to associate Access Control Doors with selected video footage in a searchable database, including the Fast-Track Feature. Notably, the Fast-Track Feature enables the user to follow selected people through multiple doors.
This provides the capability to record selected cameras and generate footage. Cameras can be automatically switched to monitors so that the control room operators know which cameras to view, depending on the specific event received. The database enables easy searching to find alarms and associated video footage.
Fence monitoring systems typically have multiple “zones”, set up on fences around a perimeter. One of the problems for control room operators is knowing which cameras to view once a fence “zone” alarm has been received. An integrated solution will increase the efficiency of the control room environment by automatically displaying one or more surveillance cameras associated with the specific fence zone, dramatically enhancing the control room environment
A fire alarm is generally associated with a sense of urgency where decisions need to be taken accurately and quickly. In large buildings, there may be hundreds of smoke detectors and other fire detection devices, and there may also be hundreds of surveillance cameras.
An integrated solution enables the control room operators to view cameras at the location from where the fire alert was initiated. Cameras can be automatically selected by the system for viewing by the operator, which adds huge value, especially in a time of stress, where decisions can lead to saving lives.
Money counter integration has been successfully used for Banking and CIT (Cash-In-transit) customers.
There is often collusion between till operators and shoplifters. This is called “sweet-hearting”, and involves a shopper arriving at the till point, with a high-value item, which is then scanned by their “buddy” or “sweetheart” with a different, low-value barcode. To the naked eye, the scan looks normal, but with synchronised video verification of the transaction, one can identify anomalies.
Unusual refunds and many other strange transactions that indicate theft or shrinkage are also easily identified via an integrated video/POS solution.
Cathexis has many clients who use weighbridges to manage the distribution and sale of vehicle payloads. For identification purposes, video verification of the weighbridge transaction can provide associated video and/or snapshots of License Plates, Payloads, and the driver. This makes it extremely easy to detect a disputed or suspicious transaction and find the associated information.
Barcode Readers are used extensively in the logistics sector, where there is a need to have video verification of all parcels scanned in and out of warehouses. Any dispute regarding a damaged parcel, or one that has missing goods, can be easily resolved by searching the CathexisVision database for the relevant barcode. The user will be automatically presented with the video footage associated with that specific barcode transaction.
Environmental monitoring systems are usually utilised in data centers, or in any other instance where “uptime” is critical.
Events from these systems can be received by the CathexisVision system to create alerts for operators.
While CathexisVision provides its own analytics suite, we realise that in some cases specialised analytics may be required. In order to accommodate this, we provide an integration with the 3rd party analytics system, enabling CathexisVision to receive alerts and take actions as outlined in the “Integration Capabilities” section ( page 3 of this document).
Because we believe that any system transaction or event can be enhanced by the automatic association of synchronised video, we continue to add integration options to our CathexisVision software.