New products introduced at Essen and Asis 2010

In October, Genetec had a booth in 2 major Security shows; Essen in Germany, and ASIS 2010, Dallas. During these shows we demonstrated the new IPhone and Blackberry platform, the SV-16 and Plan Manager.


Genetec Security Center Mobile
We demonstrated for the first time at a trade show the new Genetec Security Center Mobile platform. It’s an add-on module to Security Center 4.0 that can stream video and alarms to Blackberry devices, IPhone, IPod and IPad. The system is designed to pushed alarms to the mobile devices over 3G or Wi-Fi even if the application isn’t running in the background.

The Mobile platform is deployed on a few beta sites; it will be generally available in December.

SV-16

We also launched a new NVR platform pre-loaded with Omnicast, the SV-16. It’s a Windows 7 embedded platform with built-in wireless that can record up to 16 cameras or 32 Mbit/s. People have been impressed by its form factor, it’s only 4.5 x 4 inch.

In addition to being small, it’s energy efficient. It consumes a maximum of 8 watts (a PC uses 250 Watts on average) and doesn't have any mobile parts. It’s ideal for small locations, the SV-16 does not need to be installed in temperature controlled environment.

The SV-16 scales from 1 to hundreds of cameras… When a customer buys the SV-16, he owns an Omnicast license. If the number of cameras or storage requirements changes, the end user is allowed to migrate the SV-16 license to a standard computer and just pay a license fee for the new cameras added.

Security Center 5

Security Center 5 is the next generation Genetec Unified platform, on top video and access control, Security Center 5 now integrates both Intrusion and Alarm panel devices. During the show, we demonstrated a few key features of Security Center 5, the ability to share and send tasks between operators, new management tools for cameras, new video functions and some major improvements with the Federation and multi-site systems.

We also demonstrated the capabilities of the new video core that has been entirely rewritten to leverage the power of multi-core processors.

Plan Manager
It’s an advanced mapping system built for Omnicast. JPEG based mapping systems are not ideal to represent large facilities. An entire floor doesn’t always fit in a single JPEG image with a proper resolution, the system administrator is then forced to create many JPEG maps and link them together.

Plan Manager uses a multi-tile technologie similar to Microsoft Bing and Google Map but it also support AutoCAD floor plans. The operators can easily navigate large floor plans, view cameras and buildings on GIS map they can also view alarms and control PTZ.

Plan Manager is available today with Omnicast and will be available next year with Security Center.