Thursday, October 8, 2009

Federation is getting even better!

Recently, I was in Chicago and Kansas City where they deployed the system exactly like we imagined it when we designed the Federation.

Different organisations: police department, airport, 911, department of transportation, transit authorities, stadium, share cameras together without having to centralized their infrastructure and unified their process.


They all manage independent systems and decide which cameras they want to share with very specific access right; Live, playback, PTZ... And it's totally transparent for the people who operates the cameras, the user doesn't see the difference between local and "federated" cameras.

Now we push it further with Security Center. Since we had to re-implement federation for the new Core, we took this opportunity to improved our initial design.

Backward and Forward compatibility

Omnicast 4.x Federation is backward compatible but not forward compatible.

Now if you install Security Center 3.0 today you will be able to federate Security Center 4.0 or Omnicast 4.7 in 2 years without upgrading your entire 3.0 system.


Alarm escalation through Federation!
This is very powerful!
You can decide to send your alarm to another organisation at night, or only send a certain type of alarms. You can even push only the alarms that haven't been cleared within X sec locally.






Access control is now Federated
If you have multi-facilities, you can unlock doors, monitors access events with video and picture pop up, transparently combine events from multiple systems in 1 reports like if everything was on the same system.




Decentralized video streaming, improved performance
Your video streams no longer to go through The federation Server. Client workstation receives video directly from the source.


Remote monitoring ready!
Security center is also the perfect solutions for remote monitoring. It can transparently federate locations that are already using Omnicast 4.x. It's the best solution to monitor multiple Omnicast appliances (Ionodes SV-3200 )



Jo
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2 comments:

  1. "without having to centralized their infrastructure and unified their process."

    Jo, Can you elaborate on this? If there is no centralized coordination, how are rights managed?

    For instance, let's say I am the manager of the stadium and I want to selectively give rights to the police. How do I do that without having a central system manage those rights?
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  2. Hi John,

    The stadium manager will have to create a police user account in his omnicast system with specifics rights and camera access.

    The police Omnicast server will use that user account connect to the stadium and link transparently the cameras into their system.

    At any giving time the stadium manager can decide to block a camera to the police or just revoke their access.

    And the stadium manager could also have access to the police's system if they give him a user account, we call this cross-federation. Most of our customers mutually share cameras like this.

    Jo
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