Securiton’s technology brand IPS Intelligent Video Software has a new software release for video surveillance.
IPS NextGen Client
The new client of the IPS VideoManager is based on the Google Material Design graphic standard, as widely used on the web. The new client offers maximum clarity and intuitive user guidance, say the developers. The toolbar, which can be moved from right to left, contains standardized symbols that are familiar to the user from other applications. It ensures a structured arrangement of the resources such as cameras, site plans or digital entrances. For example, the surveillance cameras that the operator wants to keep an eye on or that are used frequently can be saved under the well-known favourite star. As for user-friendliness, you have the option of selecting the entry for a camera in the resource list as a simple or detailed display, for example with or without a preview image and camera details. Defined camera groups are automatically displayed with the correct number of windows.
The new surface can be set both light and dark, depending on the light conditions at the workstation. And as for IT security, the client only supports encrypted communication.
IPS NextGen VideoAnalytics
With the completely new product IPS NextGen VideoAnalytics Securiton is launching a new operating concept. The IPS NextGen VideoAnalytics combines several intelligent video analytics in one module, where previously several modules were necessary. This gives the user a range of application scenarios. From a toolbar, the user selects his object symbols, which he drags and drops into his defined zone. This action automatically defines rules that are displayed in text form above the image. Which alarm is to be triggered for this can also be selected as desired. For example, a rule can be: if a person enters a defined zone, a detection alarm should be triggered. This enables the user to have an overview at all times of which scenarios he is configuring.
Peter Treutler, Business Unit Director at IPS, says: “This possibility of configuration is probably unique in the world and saves the user configuration effort and thus costs if he wants to use several different scenarios. With just a few clicks of the mouse, the complete alarm scenario is created and displayed in plain text.”
Through neural networks, which IPS uses besides its algorithms, the detection reliability is increased and, above all, the false alarm rate is reduced further, the developers say. Interfering objects, such as tree branches moving in the wind or a spider’s web in front of the camera’s optics, no longer trigger false alarms.
Both the NextGen VideoAnalytics and the new NextGen Client of the IPS VideoManager come with the same configuration interface. This underlines IPS’ brand promise to offer video management and video analytics from a single source, the company adds.
Another development of the IPS analytics is that by integrating neural networks, the IPS Privacy Protection module enables the user to blur persons who hardly move or do not move for a longer time. The IPS Dome Tracker Analysis also offers more reliable detection of persons with the help of neural networks.
In the IPS VideoManager itself, IPS uses the video compression format H.265; that requires significantly less storage space for saving video content compared to other compression standards, the company adds.
