Milestone Systems, an open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), teams up with Axis Communications to demonstrate the two companies’ latest integrated solutions. Tuesday the 5th of November shined a spotlight on the newest trends in IP-based video surveillance, when these two producers of software and hardware for digital video surveillance invited the Scandinavian security industry to an Open House showcase at Milestone headquarters in Copenhagen.
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), teams up with Axis Communications to demonstrate the 2 companies' latest integrated solutions. Highlighting the newest trends in IP-based video surveillance, the 2 producers of software and hardware for digital video surveillance invited the Scandinavian security industry to an Open House showcase at Milestone headquarters in Copenhagen.
Over a hundred attendees were able to experience state-of-the-art video surveillance. Different business scenarios were shown, illustrating what value-adding integrations between network hardware and open platform video management software offers. Visitors could see how video connected to cash register systems can track suspicious transactions and help manage loss prevention in retail businesses or how a video solution can detect and trigger an alarm in the event of failure-to-pay at self-service checkouts, which more stores in the retail industry are using these days.
Milestone and Axis showed how customers such as airports and banks - where it is critical that the video surveillance system never goes down - guard against such risks by using edge storage of video on the cameras with a sophisticated security architecture. In case of network hardware failure, for example, a camera can continue recording in the same quality, storing the video locally on the camera until the server is ready to receive the recordings again for the central, longer term archives in the VMS. This ensures a company against losing incident documentation when evidence is required.
Visitors to the Milestone-Axis showcase could also see how perimeter security and recordings with thermal cameras guard against unwanted intrusion, regardless of day or night lighting. Video recording and live alerts can be triggered automatically when a moving object crosses a defined space (cross-line detection). Thermal cameras detect heat and are therefore not dependent on illumination, helping to manage vandalism, break-ins or burglary during the dark hours.
Many residential areas, schools and public institutions are exposed to vandalism, also of their cameras, so Milestone and Axis have developed a solution to address this problem. When a vandalism alarm is triggered in the system, security guards are notified immediately that a camera is covered up or otherwise disrupted. By installing and configuring multiple cameras intelligently, other PTZ cameras can move their view to take over the angle of a camera that is ravaged, so a perpetrator can still be caught on video.