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Security Detect employs the highest security standard, ensuring that video data can transport and be accessed using the latest security protocols, utilizing hardened passwords along with restricted physical and network access

Reliability The reliability of the peer-to-peer Detect Surveillance solution offers significant uptime compared to traditional client-server solutions.

Unification Municipal surveillance is often comprised of isolated efforts to cover key areas. DETECT can often combine disparate surveillance systems to maximize previous investments, unified in a common user interface.

Scalability From the scalable peer-to-peer architecture to configuration management software tools and experience, we can expand the capabilities of your municipal surveillance system while maintaining its mission essential status.

Standards Based DETECT runs on a standards-based Windows software platform designed to operate on Leverage’s Patented Peer-to-Peer Surveillance Architecture. The features and functionality of DETECT VMS specifically address municipal surveillance requirements.

Support Maintenance and support are critical to the long-term success of any surveillance network, especially those which are critical to public safety initiatives. When something does come up, we are able to quickly assess and resolve it with our remote and onsite support capabilities.

New Technologies Foundationally, the Detect P2P solution presents an innovative path to implement new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, which help identify persons and property for quick notifications.

Data Networks

Surveillance Networks

Dynamic Health Monitoring

Traditional data networks support “burst traffic” in which many transceivers send data across the network in short, momentary periods. Under these conditions, bandwidth demand is very predictable, rarely does network load ever come close to actual network capacity. As such, it is a common practice for network engineers and service providers to safely “oversubscribe” a network – banking on the fact that even during peak usage times, the “bursty” nature of data network traffic will never truly exceed the actual available bandwidth. In such an environment, it is not uncommon for short network outages to go undetected by both users and administrators. Wireless link failures, device reboots, and network congestion may often manifest and “self-heal” before anyone notices the issue even exists. However, in a network supporting Video Surveillance operations – link failures, network congestion, and device malfunction will not only result in the loss of forensic video, it noticeably inhibits VSS operators from successfully completing mission critical duties related to proactive surveillance monitoring.

Surveillance nodes are “always on” devices. They record 24/7/365 and in an environment in which the receivers (NVRs and Viewing Stations) are typically on a different network segment than the majority of the surveillance nodes (cameras.) As a result, managing consistent, high impact data transmission from many devices can be a nearly insurmountable task. The nature of video surveillance traffic demands a reliable peer-to-peer network architecture to provide the bandwidth needed for sub-second latency video. What’s more – peer-to-peer architecture allows IP Surveillance Engineers to shape network traffic along “backhaul” paths to ensure network capacity exceeds actual demand. In the surveillance network – oversubscription is not an option – and neither is backhaul link failure, as it will often affect several, if not many, surveillance nodes. The whole purpose of developing a Municipal VSS is to provide real-time, always on video access to areas requiring enhanced public safety services. A surveillance node is only effective if it is available when it is needed, and because that moment of necessity is so unpredictable, it can be said that high availability is the most important feature of the Municipal Video Surveillance System.

While edge recording may solve the problem of recording interruption due to network anomaly – this offers no solution to the availability of real-time live video. Detect System Monitoring and Reporting Technology equips VSS operators and administrators with a powerful tool to ensure optimal system performance and availability. The Detect SMART service not only keeps system administrators and users appraised of regular system performance data, but it provides insight into problems that may be looming on the horizon. Historical performance logging creates priceless empirical data that illustrates how surveillance assets are actually performing within the surveillance environment. Of course, OEMs provide predictive tools (design tools, calculators, storage estimators, etc.) but the information provided by these tools is generic in nature and only to be used in “estimation” of performance. SMART’s empirical reporting system provides accurate, actual environment tested data that can immediately provide administrators with predictive information regarding the accuracy of system design and expectation. Most importantly, SMART enables VSS integrators and administrators to remedy system vulnerabilities before they become system failures!

What are the unique aspects of Video Surveillance networks?