The power of integrating forensic search with video analytics
When shopping around for a video analytics solution, you’ll be faced with a lot of choices. Technology, use cases, costs, and deployment will all influence your decision. One thing to prioritize is a video management system with open architecture. Want to know why? Keep reading to find out.
Broaden your choice
A unified and open physical security platform allows you to scale your system as your needs evolve, especially if you choose to integrate a video analytics solution.
A unified system allows you to:
- Have a wide variety of software options to choose from
- Expand your system with the technology you need to face emerging threats and specific requirements
- Swap out or add technology as your needs change and your business grows
Unify partner integrations
When all your physical security activities, functions, and data originate from within the same system, you can get a central view of your operations, monitor multiple sites, and harness the flow of data across your security activities.
A unified security platform based on an open architecture will allow you to adopt new partner technologies and add value to your system. By having access to best-of-breed solutions managed within a centralized solution, you’ll be able to choose among many integrations—ranging from video surveillance, access control, license plate recognition, and analytics providers.
Managing a unified platform will enable your operators to make informed decisions by looking at aggregated data, including video analytics. To quickly filter through data and help your team find the information they need, you may want to consider forensic search analytics.
Speed up investigations
Forensic search allows you to perform detailed queries by filtering through attributes and characteristics of events captured by your cameras. With forensic search, you can:
- Filter out relevant data – Search for evidence by filtering data in your video management system and specify attributes of interest. Simply choose the relevant information to find specific results, faster.
- Save on hardware and installation costs – Reuse your existing hardware to save costs. All major camera manufacturers are supported, whether the analytics are performed on the video management system or the server.
- Get an integrated experience – A centralized view of your systems allows you to manage tasks integrated directly in Security Center.
During an investigation, you can rest easy knowing that you’ll receive the right information quickly and help avoid delays in daily business operations. Using forensic search analytics, you can facilitate investigations for operations and investigation teams, and close cases faster.