One of our product partners, Vivotek, had this to share on their website after the rescue of the Chilean miners.
We have had excellent service from the Vivotek cameras we have put into action for our clients. They are priced well, extremely reliable, and their Video Management System is excellent…and FREE!
Congratulations to Vivotek for their involvement in this project! We look forward to designing a Vivotek system for our customers at 2M Solutions.
Numerous video management systems are on the market and can range widely in price as well as functionality.
2M acquired professional certification from Milestone Systems and has solved many customer problems who needed the benefits of an open platform system.
On their website, Milestone lists the benefits of their XProtect Enterprise system. Here’s a quick list, but to view in full click here.
- XProtect Enterprise can scale to support an unlimited number of IP cameras, IP video encoders and selected DVRs with analog cameras, as well as an unlimited number of servers, sites and users.
- Automatic camera discovery (using e.g. Universal Plug And Play, Broadcast and IP Range scanning) ensures rapid discovery of hundreds of different IP-based video cameras and encoders from numerous vendors.
- Supports the newest video compression technologies e.g. H.264, MPEG-4 ASP, MxPEG
- Supports close to 900 IP cameras, IP video encoders and selected DVR models from over 79 different vendors through dedicated device integration.
- Built-in video motion detection (VMD) works independent of camera model and supports up to 64 cameras simultaneously per server.
- Multi-channel, two-way audio lets operators communicate with people at gates/entrances or broadcast messages to many people at once.
- Multiple language support lets operators use the system in their native language with support for 20 different languages.
- Quickly deliver authentic evidence to public authorities by exporting video to various formats, including video from multiple cameras with viewer, logs, and user notes included.
- and much more…
2M Solutions wants to solve customer problems — even the good ones, such as growth — and open platform systems, such as Milestone, not only solve today’s problems, but they hold great promise for the future.
The success of entities such as Google and WordPress, are great examples of the advantages of open systems. Third party contributions are only limited by the process of evolution in the creativity and entrepreneurship of individuals.
Ingenuity and recognizing the needs of customers before the customers know they have a problem will ensure that open platform systems will always be relevant and fresh.
