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Welcome to the future of Video Management; Infinity VMS!
With innovative and ground-breaking features, you are armed with the most sophisticated, flexible, cost-effective and open Video Management Platform on the market!

You can truly create best-of-breed technology solutions and make use of specific camera features; by using cameras from multiple manufacturers and create systems of infinite size! There is no ceiling to the number of cameras you can have on an Infinity VMS solution, it's called Infinity for a reason....

Infinity VMS solutions are scalable and expandable; there are no restrictions on the number of Servers, Cameras, Encoders/Decoders, Clients, System Users or anything! you are free to build systems scalable to any size; and with built in Failover and Redundancy, you can offer solutions to your customers that can cope if something does go wrong. Security is of paramount concern, hence why Infinity VMS Client/Server communications is done so through proprietary encryption.

Intelligent Search

Intelligent Search is a detailed search tool that searches footage and data on a forensic level. You can customise your search query and peramters in such a way that specific and detailed searches can result in quickly retrieved video footage that can contain faces or number plates. Infinity VMS supports MetaData from all cameras, which is used in addition to video streams to provide more information on surveyed areas. MetaData can provide instant information such as whether a Face or Number Plate is currently in view. Searching within Infinity VMS is so fast because it is used the metadata to quickly reference every ounce of recorded footage to match against the search parameters provided. Metadata searching is infinitely quicker than conventional footage frames. This means regardless of what you are searching for, you will accurate results in a fraction of the time compared to other systems.

Faces and Facial information is a form of Biometrics, similar to fingerprints. The metadata for faces and facial information is stored as specific markers within the archive of recorded footage, and the metadata provides brief descriptions of all faces in the field of view. Intelligent Search allows you to upload a picture of a person of interest and then you can let the system investigate and filter recorded video by % similarity. For example, scan a passport photo of a person you want to look for, specify how closely you want to search for faces that resemble the passport photo and Intelligent Search will display results within seconds!

Edge Storage Support

Infinity VMS can connect to storage solutions that are embedded in cameras. For example, onboard SD cards. You can watch, export and copy video from SD cards. Have you ever thought of synching edge storage and the main archive? All too often, the connection between the camera and the server is lost for a short time at a critical site, such as an airport or another transport hub. What about the video recorded during this network failure? As soon as the connection is restored, the edge storage (on the camera) synchronizes with the central storage (on the server), resulting in a seamless, gap-free video recording.

The way the camera storage can talk to your VMS system is specified in the ONVIF Profile G standard. Infinity Video solutions are the first in the world to make it to ONVIF Profile G. The number of ONVIF-compatible cameras is growing fast. Now with ONVIF Profile S and Profile G incorporated intrinsically, all devices conforming to ONVIF can be incrementally added to your video surveillance systems powered by Infinity.

Replication is also a doddle and there are an array of options available to you. Copy any data to any storage! With redundancy; storage, video, audio and metadata are automatically synced between the main video archive (or multiple archives) and another user-specified storage, including NAS. Infinity VMS meets the Connection Lost challenge!

3D Interactive Maps

Infinity VMS offers more than just a basic Graphic Maps screen, it offers 3D Maps! Interactive 3D Maps superimposes camera locations on a site map and displays camera views in the same window. This handy viewing mode allows operators to monitor situations without spending time to switch between windows. Operators can instantly pinpoint where a selected camera is located on the map and identify the corresponding location of interest.

Cameras in the current layout are colour-coded by current status. You can show/hide camera names and fields of view, as well as tilt the map for convenience.

The scale of the interactive 3D map can be changed in Live Video mode when viewing video. This function allows viewing the map at the right size to get the full picture of events at the site or of particular areas. The selected map scale for a map is saved when you switch to another layout.

Modern GUI

Infinity VMS features a flexible GUI that makes it easy and fast for operators to perform their jobs, solving a number of surveillance-related tasks.

Custom Layouts

Monitors and video cameras may have different aspect ratios - 4:3, 5:4, 16:9, and others. As a result, the images from the cameras may be laid out on the screen unevenly, with large empty spaces. In order to optimize how camera windows fit on the screen, you can create custom layouts within Infinity VMS.

Custom layouts allow placing cameras on the screen in any arrangement. Viewing tiles can have varying aspect ratios and are automatically configured. Make efficient use of screen space by mixing and matching cameras with diverse aspect ratios. Want to view dewarped video from a fisheye camera? Choose a full-screen panoramic view or two 180° views!

What if you know something is happening on a camera, but this camera view is not on-screen now? Simply type the camera name in the search bar and switch to the hotspot on-the-fly. The selected camera window comes on your screen in a layout with other viewing tiles. If the appropriate layout does not yet exist, the system creates a new layout with a single camera view.

If you want more information on your custom layout, add dashboards. Dashboards are information panes with system events, server health status, camera health status, webpages, etc.

Users with appropriate rights may open and use their custom layouts and those of other users on any client in the system.

Failover & Redundancy

Uh oh.....Server down? No recordings for critical episodes? ... The failover capabilities of Infiniy VMS take your security system to the next level of stability, continuity and performance.

A distributed solution for a geographically scattered site is all about system resilience and back-ups. We take server downtime and bandwidth problems seriously. You can rely on a hot standby server that will immediately step in when the main hardware fails.

The standby server automatically takes over all functions from the off-line or malfunctioning server. A special hypervisor service continuously monitors the health of all servers in your system. No matter what happens to the hardware and cables, you have live video on your screen and recorded video in the backup storage.

Interconnected System Clients

Cross-System Client empowers users to connect to multiple servers on various domains and in different systems from a single client workstation. All settings and cameras associated with these servers are consolidated in a single convenient view. That way you can access multiple independent surveillance systems simultaneously, even if the customer cannot or does not want to combine these systems.

What if you have geographically complex installations dispersed over great distances? Or you need to bulk configure security systems which are otherwise autonomous? You have police requests to hook up to security systems at different retail chains? Cross-System Client is the solution.

Video Analytics & Detection Tools

Infinity VMS has many Analytics tools inherently built in. With these powerful aids at your fingertips, you are able to investigate Audio and Video in greater detail that with just Live/Recorded Images alone.

Detection Tools within Infinity VMS:

• Video Motion Detection (VMD) - designate areas onscreen and the system will monitor changes in the scene and notify you when movement is detected
• Background Change Detection - the system learns the idle background imagery of a given camera, if someone tries to move, turn or cover up the camera then the system immediately notifies you
• Video Loss Detection - if network interference, or even if someone unplugs the camera, the system will instantly notify you if the quality of the video starts to worsen....you can even configure the tool so that if the image becomes blurred, distorted or noisy then it can notify you also
• Abandoned Object Detection - the system can identify when a new object enters a scene where it otherwise is not normally there and can alert you when this object is left; for example if someone leaves a bag or briefcase in a crowded area the system can notify you so you can react to a potentially explosive object
• Object Removal Detection - the system learns what objects should be present at all times in a given scene so if someone were to steal something, the system will instantly notify you of this
• Perimeter Protection - you are able to draw lines and boxes on the perimeter of your site and be notifed the moment objects of a certain size cross these lines or enter the boxes....in much the same way an intelligent fenceline operates
• Flow Control - if you have areas where people or vehicles should only be walking in a certain direction, such as corridors within an Aiport Terminal or Car Park Entrance/Exit for example, you can draw virtual lines that detect when objects cross them in the wrong direction
• Loitering - sometimes before committing criminal acts, people may appear in a scene and loiter so that they can survey where and when they might commit their act; the system can be configured to detect and notify you when this situation arises so that you can stop the criminal before they commit their act
• Smoke Detection - the system learns what smoke looks like visually in a scene and notifies you the moment it detects smoke in an area
• Flame Detection - the system learns what fire and flames looks like visually in a scene and notifies you the moment it detects fire/flames in an area

The second element of these Detection Tools is what happens after you have been notified. Infinity VMS can be configured with an array of automatic actions for each an every detection. Including:

• Start Recording - the moment the Detection Tool in question is activated, the selected camera will begin to record footage....you can even specify recording options for these scenarios to maximise resolution and frame rates for footage recorded in these situations
• Email - the system can send emails to user-provided email addresses when an Detection Tool is activated
• Audio Announcement - the system can play local pre-recorded audio sounds or warnings at the client PC location....if connected to a larger PA system then the entire site can hear this audio playback
• Alarm/AUX - if your recording device is connected to some form of Alarm or I/O devie then you can send a signal to this automatically
• View Camera - if not already displayed, the activated camera will be displayed in the Layout screen
• PTZ Preset - if you have PTZs on site you can automatically get them to move to pre-defined preset positions depending on the alarm that is activated

Macros & Automated Rules

Infinity VMS has a Macros feature which allows the specifying of a series of actions based on true logic (including IF... THEN conditions) for reacting to events or even combinations of events. With macros, users can automate routine work and fully customise security systems based on site needs. Macros can contain an unlimited number of actions. Quickly create and edit macros using the visual editor. Any event in a distributed security system can be used as a «trigger».

Configurable Videowall

Infinity VMS has a Videowall built in! Unlike other systems that require you to run separate programs..... or even don't have it at all, Infinity VMS gives you an intrinsic way to control cameras and views across an unlimited number of monitors. Control Rooms, Smart Cities and beyond are all possible under the hood! With this unique technology, operators can select a layout that has been created in the system and send it to the monitor of any client computer currently connected to any video surveillance server. Infinity Videowall is incredibly useful for managing extensive geographically complex sites with large monitoring hubs that require multilevel video monitoring. Sending a layout to an operator allows drawing that person’s attention to an event captured by one of the cameras in the layout. Similarly, an event can be shown to all operators by sending the relevant layout to a video wall.

Users have unique features for video walls as well. It is easy and quick to designate any client computer with sufficient monitors as a video wall. Any user with sufficient access rights can manage the video wall. A remote client connected to any domain server can be used. So the video wall is always functional and operators do not have to spend time on reconfiguration.

Retrospective Offline Analytics

Infinity VMS lets you import digital Video files and run retrospective Video Analytics on them just as if it was live footage on the system! This feature is very useful for established surveillance systems with no tools for the quick archive analysis.

LDAP Authentication

Infinity VMS supports LDAP. This feature allows deduplicating user administration tasks for sysadmins at large companies. Operators can log in to a surveillance system by using the standard Infinity VMS users and rights system or by entering their domain credentials. The system admin connects an LDAP directory to Infinity VMS and selects which users to add. Using Infinity VMS, sysadmins can also associate VMS access rights with corporate directory groups.

Replication of Recordings

Infinity VMS supports Replication. Recorded video can be automatically duplicated from the server on which the video is stored. With replication, video, audio and metadata is constantly copied from one (or several) video archives to another, user-specified archive. Replication can be performed in two ways: either automatic sync of all archive data or manual selection of a particular archive fragment for its copying. This offers a failsafe option for long-term video storage.

Recording

Video archiving is more reliable in Infinity VMS than anywhere else! Infintiy VMS gives you flexibility and choice when it comes to recording; you can choose to record to local storage (hard drives and/or RAID) or to USB and othe removable mediums or even to network disks: video storage can be hosted on a local server disk or network disk. To use network storage, specify the relevant network path when creating an archive or select a network disk visible in the operating system.

Editing Multiple Cameras

Configuring a large number of cameras can be a time-intensive task, especially at large sites. So why can’t you configure them as a group, making changes to multiple selected cameras at the same time? Infinity VMS has this exact feature! Changes to cameras of the same model can be applied in a single click. Configure one camera as needed and then, in the list, select the other cameras of the same model that you want to configure. Just click Apply! Changes will be automatically saved for all the selected cameras.

Hotkeys

Hotkeys and specialised keyboards make use of the system quicker and more convenient, improving operator reaction times as well: users can configure hotkeys – combinations of keyboard keys or joystick buttons – for triggering certain actions in the system. Infinity VMS can be controlled from both standard PC keyboards and special security keyboards connected to the system.

Hotkeys offer a quicker way of accessing frequently used commands, which reduces the time necessary for reacting in rapidly changing situations.

Face Search

Infinity VMS features a face capture and search algorithm, that automatically detects a face in the field of view or in a provided video footage of one or several cameras, and then searches for that same face in other video provided by networked cameras.

License and Registration Search

Infinity VMS features a number / license plate search algorithm, that detects a license plate in the field of view or in a provided video footage of one or several cameras. These license plate numbers are saved to a database and associated with the relevant recorded video from several cameras. The algorithm involves advanced heuristic methods (such as substitution of similar looking letters/numbers) to identify as many potential matches as possible.

Integration

Infinity VMS includes a range of features for getting events from various external devices and systems: cash registers, access control devices, third-party software, and more. This allows quickly integrating with third-party information systems used to protect your site. External events can be received, saved to a database and associated with recorded video. Events are text-searchable and can be displayed in real time in a separate viewing tile or as video captions.

Within Security; Infinity VMS can integrate with Access Control platforms to take manual control of opening/closing a door for example. It can integrate with Intruder Alarms to set/unset panels and to receive live events that occur within the Intruder System. It can integrate with Fire Alarms so that in the event of an alarm within the Fire System, specific actions can be taken within CCTV.

For a full list of integrated manufacturers and platforms, visit the Partners page.

Physical Security Information Management (PSIM)

Infinity VMS can be used with the Infinity PSIM platform in the background to deliver powerful performance and market-leading features. Your system can be linearly expanded through numerous additional software licenses to add even more functionality!