Hands-free monitor

November 2008 Access Control & Identity Management

DUO System is Farfisa’s most modern philosophy for digital systems. DUO is an efficient and practical video intercom installation, saving time and money. The DUO System uses only two non-polarised wires to carry power, audio, video, command and service signals. The Echos hands-free monitor is now compatible with DUO technology.

System features – single user:

* Single dwelling one or more call buttons to seven intercommunicating monitors.

* Interconnected with a single non-polar twisted pair (Farfisa 2302 cable).

* Intercommunicating function programmed on respective monitor.

* Max distance for colour is 150 metres from door station to furthest monitor.

System features – apartment block:

* 50 monitors per riser (four risers max) 200 monitors per system.

* Distance per riser 150 metres from door station to furthest monitor.

* Multiple door stations.

* Door stations can be digital or pushbutton type.

* Distance can be doubled by using a colour booster.

Aggregated analytics tools

Milestone Systems has announced its Video Analytics Framework, XProtect Analytics 2.0. Part of the Milestone open platform solution, XProtect Analytics integrates video analytics tools from different manufacturers under a single interface.

Using the Milestone tools, users can rapidly search across alerts and events to easily find relevant video evidence about security incidents from multiple sources.

A combination of advanced analytic tools and optimised IP-based video technology based on the Milestone open platform, XProtect Analytics Framework enables video analytics at the edge (on camera) and at the server, minimising processing power and adding value to archived video. With XProtect Analytics users can correlate events from generic tools such as licence plate recognition, facial recognition and traditional realtime access control with alerts from video content analysis tools, such as object detection, etc. Users can build strong, accurate evidence by cross-matching events in realtime and from archived video.

Integrating video analytics with open platform video management systems gives a flexible choice of hardware and software that greatly expands the potential for video analytics and increases the value of archived video. A true open platform solution, such as the Milestone Video Analytics 2.0 Framework, simplifies system operation by integrating a wide variety of video analytics products under one easy-to-manage user interface. This gives a powerful surveillance solution with a flexible IP video management system and a central console for operating, collecting and correlating events from multiple sources.





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