UNCOVERING THE LAYERS
be able to change with the needs of your
business moving forward.
Your physical security
solution should be unified
and not just integrated
While the security industry (like the rest
of the software industry) has worked to
develop a variety of methods to bring
separate physical security solutions
together via integration, the result remains
a set of disparate systems with limited
communication and interoperability
among them. Integrating separate security
functions like access control and video
surveillance using software development
kits (SDK) or application programming
interface (API) programming only is
limited and can be a costly approach.
Unification, however, takes stand-
alone components of a security
solution beyond just being loosely or
superficially connected via an SDK or
API. A unified physical security platform
is a comprehensive software solution
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that manages the different components
of a security environment through a
centralised open architecture built to
provide complete access to all data.
A unified platform goes above and
beyond tagging or bookmarking video
when an access control event occurs
or offering the capability to unlock an
access-controlled door from within the
video surveillance user interface. It’s
a platform that combines information
from all available sensors to provide
greater awareness to operators. This not
only means showing video feeds when
alerts are triggered by the access control
system, but also being able to see data
from all related sensors in a single click,
from anywhere in the system.
A unified solution is developed from
square one to not only work together but
to purposefully intertwine functionality
to offer a powerful user experience that
includes built-in reporting and alarm
management functionalities. With
unification, it’s possible to configure
SECURITY
CENTRE,
MANUFACTURED
BY GENETEC,
OFFERS THE
ONLY UNIFIED
PLATFORM
BUILT FROM THE
GROUND UP AND
CODED TOGETHER
FOR SEAMLESS
INTERACTION
AND WORKFLOW
RIGHT OUT OF
THE BOX.
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