Milestone Systems, the Danish IP video management software (VMS) company, showed the new XProtect 2014 suite of products, the XProtect Access Control Module 2014 and the Milestone Husky range of network recorders at IFSEC International 2014 in London. And camera and solution partners presented at the company’s booth. Visit: www.milestonesys.com.
Thomas Lausten, Milestone Systems VP for EMEA Sales, said: “Our partners are an essential part of our success, now and in the future. I believe that the great response we received from the visitors at IFSEC is a clear message about the value of our open business model. It is a strategy we are dedicated to enhancing going forward: We are 100 per cent committed to driving open platform technology into the future. We are also thrilled about the response to our partners’ integrated solutions shown at our stand, making this the most successful IFSEC for us ever.”
Partners at the Milestone booth were:
HP Autonomy, Pivot3 – storage
Agent Vi, Ipsotek, Ganetec Global Solutions – video analytics
ISONAS, Inc – IP access control
Oracle – databases
Veracity UK Ltd, Allied Telesis International Ltd – IT infrastructure
Technology showcase
The new metadata capabilities in XProtect 2014 were shown in live demos using Sony and Bosch Security Systems cameras. Another demo highlighted how a smartphone with Milestone Mobile client could push video and GPS-coordinates to XProtect, enabling the VMS to show the phone’s position on a map: visitors to the stand were treated to a virtual tour of London displayed on the Milestone XProtect Smart Wall as two Milestone staff broadcast live video from a tourist bus.
Another showcase area included the integrations of both AXIS A1001 and Bosch Access Professional Edition with XProtect Access Control Module 2014 in the XProtect Smart Client.
The Milestone XProtect Access Control Module 2014 is an add-on product for XProtect VMS. It enables integration of third-party access control systems with Milestone video products.
The new licensing concept for analogue cameras used with XProtect 2014 family of VMS products also drew interest at the stand. In the new licensing concept, only one hardware device license is needed per analogue-to-IP encoder unit, regardless of the number of analogue cameras connected to the encoder unit, for transition to digital video for customers using analogue cameras.
Milestone Husky NVRs now available in EMEA
Milestone also exhibited the Milestone Husky Series of network video recorder (NVR) appliances. These NVR appliances, preinstalled with Milestone XProtect VMS, are available now in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The Milestone Husky appliances are ready to use, featuring automatic device discovery with wizards for configuring the system, and the device license keys are pre-activated. A competition was held each day for visitors to install a Milestone Husky NVR in the fastest time: the winning record that week was 17 seconds.
Customers get remote access to live and recorded video through a choice of client interfaces: Milestone XProtect Smart Client (available with the Milestone Husky M30 and Milestone Husky M50 models), XProtect Web Client or Milestone Mobile; available in 27 languages.
