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EXACQVISION 9.0: MORE SYSTEM CONTROL FOR ADMINS AND BETTER TOOLS FOR MITIGATING INCIDENTS

December 15, 2017 Tyco Security Products

exacqVision 9.0 Feature Highlights:

Keep Your System Safe and Up-to-date
- Incorporated health alarms from intrusion panels
- System automatically checks for server software updates
Faster Identification and Mitigation of Events using Video Analytics
- Integration with Illustra video analytics provides critical event notification
- Integration with Axis Perimeter Defender and Axis VMD4 Video Motion Detection
Better Admin Control of User Groups
- Greater control over user group ‘live’ and ‘search’ privileges
- Assign users to multiple groups, each with different privileges in Enterprise System Manager (ESM)
Simplified Camera Configuration
- Improvements to UI layout input and output configuration menus adding new data fields for visual clarification
Web and Mobile Improvements
- Time-saving backup/restore settings for exacqMobile
- Improved user experience with camera associations on mobile device
- More secure, redesigned exacqVision web service
Additional 3rd Party Solution Options
- Iris and focus control for ONVIF PTZ cameras and encoders
- Bosch and Northern added to plugin dropdown menu
- Edge camera support for Artpec-6 cameras
- Support for Kantech v7.3 with Windows 10
- H.265 support for Panasonic
- Support HTTPS Configuration for ACTI
- Added Client-Side Dewarping for HIKVISION and Panasonic

Feature Details:

Keep Your System Safe and Up-to-date

Incorporate health alarms from intrusion panels

In addition to displaying standard access control and intrusion alarms (e.g. zone bypassed, panel armed, etc.), exacqVision now captures panels and controller health alarms such as low battery, power loss, and keypad tampering. These events can trigger actions within exacqVision and roll-up to ESM or exacqCloud health monitoring solutions to identify issues before they affect an organization’s security infrastructure.

Automatically checks for server updates

exacqVision now checks for automatic server-side updates, expanding upon its existing ability for client-side updates. Once users opt into this feature, exacqVision will automatically notify them when client or server updates are available for download, ensuring their system is always kept up-to-date.

Faster Identification and Mitigation of Events

Integration with Illustra video analytics provides critical event notification

Users of analytics-enabled Illustra Pro cameras can now see visible boxes around analytic event triggers and search on specific metadata associated with analytic events. Visible bounding boxes make the triggering event easy to identify and are visible in both the Live and Search pages of the exacqVision client. When searching analytic events, the user can now further review analytic event results by drawing specific areas of the scene to filter results. These analytic enhancements allow for faster identification of triggering events and faster searching of past events generated from Illustra Pro cameras.

Integration with Axis Perimeter Defender and Video Motion Detection

exacqVision now integrates with Axis Perimeter Defender which allows users to monitor large areas based on object behavior such as loitering and conditional zone crossing (e.g. when an object enters one zone without first passing through another zone). The integration can trigger actions within the exacqVision VMS, such as video recording or sending email notifications when a perimeter event occurs.

In addition, exacqVision now supports Video Motion Detection 4 (VMD4) on Axis cameras, which sends alerts when motion is detected. This new camera support is set to record based on movement, reducing storage and bandwidth usage.

Better Administrator Control

Greater control over user group ‘live’ and ‘search’ privileges

Admin users can now define ‘live’ and ‘search’ user group privileges individually per camera for greater control. They can grant a user live access to a specific camera, but restrict the same user from searching recorded video. This capability ensures that surveillance video is only viewed by appropriate exacqVision users.

Assign users to multiple groups, each with different privileges in Enterprise System Manager (ESM)

In the latest version of ESM (5.4), users can be assigned to multiple groups, each with different privileges. This improvement addresses the requirements of large organizations, who often need to assign users to multiple groups of separate servers.

Simplified Camera Configuration

Improvements to input and output configuration menus

The user experience of configuring audio, trigger, and alarm inputs and outputs has been improved with the release of exacqVision 9.0. In previous versions, these inputs and outputs were grouped together in the client and gave users little information regarding the devices each was associated with. Now, not only is this information provided in a grid format for better organization, but it also includes helpful device information like camera name, model, and MAC address. A critical time-saving enhancement to exacqVision.

Web and Mobile Improvements

Time-saving backup/restore settings for Exacq Mobile
It has always been easy to add servers to an Exacq Mobile configuration, but this process can become time-consuming when dozens or hundreds of servers need to be added to many mobile devices. With Exacq Mobile 9.0, you can create a backup of a mobile configuration, save it to a cloud destination, and restore it on any number of mobile devices, greatly reducing the time required to configure the app on mobile devices.

Improved user experience with camera associations on mobile device

exacqVision 9.0 improves the way users access different camera associations on a mobile device. A new overflow menu prevents too many associations from taking up the entire screen, and a new wheel menu allows users to more intuitively interact with associations.

More secure, redesigned exacqVision web service

exacqVision web services no longer installs a 3rd party webserver and now uses an embedded webserver within the exacqVision web service. The new web service is more secure and will automatically get updated every quarter as part of the remote update, whereas Apache was not automatically updated when you updated the web service. This makes managing system updates easier for administrators and helps to ensure the latest version of software is running on your exacqVision web servers.

Additional 3rd Party Camera Options

Iris and focus control in exacqVision for Axis, Hikvision, Illustra, and ONVIF IP cameras
ACTi event notification with separate socket connection
Bosch and Northern added to plugin dropdown menu
Edge camera support for Artpec-6 cameras
Support for Kantech v7.3 with Windows 10
H.265 support for Panasonic
Support HTTPS configuration for ACTi
Added client-side dewarping for HIKVISION and Panasonic

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EXACQVISION 8.8: ENHANCES SITUATION AWARENESS AND ADDS USER CONTROLS FOR ADMINISTRATORS

September 15, 2017 Tyco Security Products

exacqVision 8.8 provides powerful tools that improve situation awareness and control for both administrators and users.

exacqVision 8.8 Feature Highlights:

Better Day-to-Day Monitoring
- Embed a web page as a panel within the client
- Enhanced event linking including with PowerSeries Neo virtual zones
- Support for higher-resolution displays
- Single sign-on support when syncing with exacqvision ESM
Enhanced Administrator Control
- More control over how and when users access the system
Simplified Camera Configuration
- Add multiple IP cameras at one time
- Preview image on mouse hover to quickly find camera location
Web and Mobile Improvements
- Improved cybersecurity and video export with Web services
- Auto select appropriate streams for multi-stream cameras
- Respect camera rotation when retrieving video
Additional 3rd Party Camera Options
- H.265 support for Illustra IP cameras
- Integration with next gen Illustra Flex and Samsung X-Series cameras
- Support for Hikvision ISAPI

Feature Details:

Better Day-to-Day Monitoring

Embed a web page as a panel within the client

Users can embed a web page as a panel within the client to give them important information such as weather updates or breaking news headlines so they can better react to imminent events that could potentially affect their business.

Enhanced event linking, including with PowerSeries Neo virtual zones

Operators can now display any event linkage as an association which will appear on top of the live video feed. Ideal for associating access control or intrusion breaches, this capability is also very useful in applications such as retail, where metal/foil detectors are now being deployed to detect foil-lined bags, a new tool for shoplifters. Once the serial data profile is set up from the detector, whenever a foil-lined bag is detected, an alert will trigger and automatically appear on top of the corresponding live video, providing critical information to the retailer trying to prevent rising theft.

This event linking functionality is also available with DSC PowerSeries Neo Virtual Zones which provides better integration between DSC’s access control products and exacqVision.

Support for higher resolution displays

exacqVision 8.8 introduces support for higher-resolution displays, including 4K monitors as well as Retina displays (for Mac).

Single sign-on support when syncing with exacqvision ESM

Users can now take advantage of single sign-on support when syncing exacqVision with ESM. Once configured, a user can log in to exacqVision and access ESM without having to enter his or her credentials a second time.

Enhanced Administrator Control

More control over how and when users access the system

This latest release adds very important controls for administrators looking to more strictly manage how and when users can access the VMS.

Expiration of inactive accounts: Admins can now configure user accounts to expire once they have met a specified inactivity threshold (e.g. a certain number of days). For example, if a user hasn’t logged in for 90 days, his or her login will be marked as expired and the user won’t be able to log in until the admin re-enables the account.
Automatic unlock of locked out accounts: Admin users can configure accounts that have been locked out due to failed login attempts to automatically unlock after a certain amount of time.
Temporary guest accounts: Admin users can now create temporary guest accounts which allow users to access the system for a limited amount of time. This can give third parties such as law enforcement system access for a specified time period.
Expanded access to preset tours: Users with “Allow PTZ” permission can now start and stop preset tours.