IndigoVision are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new integration between Control Center and Avigilon Access Control Manager (ACM), empowering operators to react faster.

This new module allows access control events from the Avigilon ACM™ system to be seamlessly combined with IndigoVision’s security management solution, providing security operators with a complete video and access control management solution from a single user interface – Control Center.

What you can achieve:

Dramatically decrease operator response time by using the power of Control Center combined with Avigilon ACM. If Control Center receives an alarm from ACM, operators can instantly perform the following actions:

For more information, please call us on 01772 336111 and speak to your account manager directly or email sales@qedgroup.co.uk.

VIGI 8MP IR Panoramic Turret Network Camera

Cut Project Costs with 180° View and 4K (8MP) Clarity.

General cameras require multiple units to cover blind spots in large spaces like hotel lobbies, playgrounds, intersections, and warehouses, raising costs. A single panoramic camera with 180° view and 4K resolution reduces installation, deployment, and maintenance costs while covering more area.

180° Panorama View with Huge Vision
4K (8MP) Ultra HD and IR Range Up to 65.62 ft (20 m)^†
Red-Blue Warning Lights with Stronger Deterrence
People & Vehicle Analytics^‡
Human & Vehicle Classification
Smart Detection
Smart Video Enhancement Technology
Audio and Alarm Interface Available
IP67 Weatherproof and IK10 Vandal Proof
H.265+ Compression Technology

InSight S655I

360° Coverage with 4-in-1 Cameras, with Two Way Audio and Smart Detection

A single fisheye camera can play the role of many, providing a simpler and more competitive security solution. For example, in 4PTZ display mode, it functions as four cameras at once, delivering complete coverage and flexible perspectives.

VIGI 5MP IR Fisheye Network Camera

5MP Super-High Definition and IR Night Vision
360° Coverage without Blind Spots
Supports Multiple Display Modes and ePTZ
Supports Ceiling Mount / Wall Mount / Pendant Mount
Smart Detection
Smart Video Enhancement Technology
Built-In Microphone & Speaker
IP67 Waterproof and IK10 Vandal-Proof
H.265+ Compression Technology
Suitable for Small Indoor Areas like Retail Shops and Offices

When you think of TP-Link, you probably think networking; routers, switches, access points. And for good reason! TP-Link has spent decades building a global reputation for connectivity, a great one at that, making them a trusted name in both consumer and enterprise networking. Unlike traditional security brands that started with cameras and later bolted on networking as an afterthought, TP-Link flipped the script.

Their VIGI Insight range is proof of this networking-first approach, bringing the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of enterprise-grade networking to CCTV. So why does this matter for installers and businesses?

Why Networking First Makes a Difference in CCTV

Most CCTV brands build cameras first, networks second. But security systems don’t exist in isolation. They rely on strong, stable, and secure networks to function effectively. That’s where TP-Link has the edge.

This networking-first strategy sets TP-Link’s VIGI range apart. Instead of treating security cameras as standalone devices, TP-Link integrates them into a strong, scalable, and secure network. This approach enhances reliability, simplifies management, and ensures CCTV systems work more efficiently. Let’s actually break this down.

Common problems with traditional CCTV set ups

For many businesses, setting up a CCTV system can be frustrating. Poor video quality, lagging footage, and unreliable remote access are all common complaints. Often, the issue isn’t the cameras themselves. It’s the network behind them.

A stable foundation is necessary to build a house, right? Likewise, A CCTV system is only as strong as the network supporting it.

When your CCTV system is designed to work with your network from day one, you get:

Consistent, high-quality video feeds without buffering.
A network that prioritises security footage without affecting other business operations.
Simpler installations and lower long-term costs.

Another pain point with CCTV set ups is the Video Management System (VMS). Many are built for IT experts, not end users. Some even require certification courses just to complete basic tasks.

Video Management System (VMS) in CCTV

A Video Management System in CCTV is management suite tool that allows users to collect and store video data from various sources and cameras for a consolidated interface. However, not all are made equal!

The VIGI VMS is different.

Our technical manager, John, has tested the system first-hand and was impressed with how intuitive it is compared to other VMS platforms. No steep learning curves, no unnecessary complexity.

Intuitive and user-friendly – Designed for installers and end users.
Fast to set up – No unnecessary menus, no wasted time.
Packed with practical features – all in a clean, easy-to-use dashboard.

Let’s break down some of the VMS features our technical manager liked:

Easy site Central Management.
Live View and full playback features.
Remote Management and configuration of NVRs and Camera Heads , allowing for remote maintenance of cameras and NVRs.
AI Monitors and advanced search features.
Virtual site maps.
Free Project Design Tool for customer quotes and site planning, bandwidth and storage calculations.

Like I said, packed! You can read more about VIGI VMS directly from TP-Link here: VIGI Cloud VMS | VIGI Cloud Video Management System | TP-Link United Kingdom

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4MP Outdoor IR Motorized Varifocal Bullet Network Camera

SPEC: 4MP, 2.7mm~13.5mm Varifocal (5x), 1/2.9’’ Progressive Scan CMOS,
H.265+/H.265/H.264+/H.264,
IR LED,
25fps/30fps (2688×1520),
IP67,
IK10,
PoE/DC 12V,120dB WDR,
Built-in Mic/Speaker,
Micro-SD Slot (up to 512GB),
Alarm In/Out, Audio In/Out
FEATURE: IR Night Vision (Up to 60 m), Smart Detection(Human &Vehicle Classification), People & Vehicle Analytics, SmartVid (Smart IR, 3D DNR, BLC), ONVIF (Profile S/T/G), Remote Monitoring, VIGI App, Web, NVR, VIGI VMS

Wow what a week we had at The Security Event at the NEC, Birmingham! Thank you to everyone who visited us on our stand.

It was our third time exhibiting at one of the UK’s biggest security events, and thanks to you, it was definitely our busiest and best year yet!

We loved seeing our customers and meeting new people who share the same passion and vision about the security industry as we do.

We had a wonderful (and tiring) time joined by our friends from some of the biggest names in the security industry, including Avigilon Alta, Netgenium, RBH Access, and Veracity.

We are so proud of everyone involved who helped us bring our ideas to life for you all to see at the show.

Take a Look at Our Team in Action!

We’ve been so busy since the show, and it’s all thanks to our amazing team and to our amazing customers.

Our dedicated account managers are working hard contacting all who came to visit us at our stand and showed a valued interest in who we are and how we can help you and your business succeed.

We hope you enjoyed The Security Event as much as we did.

Visit our website to find out what we can do for you.

At QED, Good People is our ethic. We value ourselves on being an honest and trustworthy brand to you; our customers, and it is these values that have made us the company we are today.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, you will always know where you are with us. We are honest about product, and passionate about our service.

From first contact, you will see the level of desire we have for seeing you succeed, because we care. We understand your success is based on us having a common interest on what you and your business does, if we don’t deliver, you don’t succeed, and that is not an option for QED. We’re dependable, and we feel we’re a part of your business.

We don’t hide information, we communicate with you, whether it is good or bad news, we will always let you know. Because we’re a value-added distributor, there’s nothing we hide. Our team of Good People are always there for you.

We’re always looking for ways to add value to your business, this is why we love working with some of the biggest brands in the CCTV and security industry, bringing you the best solutions for helping you succeed with your projects.

We’re exhibiting at this years’ Security Event in April at the NEC, Birmingham, showcasing some of the biggest names and brand new products exclusively on our stand, including access control and touch-free security solutions from RBH Access and IP PoE Speakers from Netgenium.

RBH: Delivering Access Control to Security

Drawing on decades of experience in Electronic Access Control for the Security Industry, RBH’s founders insisted that innovation, quality, integrity, and value be the cornerstones of the company and its products – and that the advantages resulting from dedication to these principles flow to their dealers and customers. Meticulous attention to detail goes hand in hand with their broad strategic vision.

Since 1995, RBH Access Technologies has been known for quality and innovative design. Product design and manufacturing takes place at their Brampton, Ontario facility in Canada. Sales, distribution, and support centres around the world provide services tailored to local customer’s needs as they market their products through an international network of security dealers and systems integrators.

Selective dealer recruitment and comprehensive training ensure highest customer satisfaction. RBH’s access control systems have been installed in over 100 countries, on five continents, and in multiple languages.

Their company’s growth is currently several times the industry average – bearing testimony to the acuity of its vision. RBH continue to invest in research and development to provide innovative and effective products that address the ever-growing market demands for open, stable, scalable, and integrated security management systems. They continue to complement their exceptional products with first-rate support and competitive pricing to the ultimate satisfaction for their dealers and customers.

Axiom Lite: Integrating Access Control

The Axiom Lite System from RBH seamlessly integrates access control, intrusion alarms, elevator control, CCTV & DVR, biometric authentication, photo ID, building automation, and on and offsite alarm monitoring, into an elegant and versatile building management and security system. Axiom Lite is secured, automated, insightful, and expandable, it’s security made easy.

Axiom Xa: Versatile Security Management Solution

Bringing together different aspects of security management can be challenging. Axiom Xa stands up to the challenge by combining access control and alarm monitoring with video, building management automation, asset tracking, guard tour and visitor management, and many more important security functions into an elegant and versatile security management solution.

BlueLINE: Award-Winning Security Readers

As part of the BlueLINE Readers range, the RBH-M45 mullion mount reader reads 13.56mhz Mifare or Desfire encrypted cards and tags for the highest level of security. These readers can also be ordered with Bluetooth and NFC capability for the ability to read RBH UHSC mobile credentials (available for free in the App store).

The readers come standard with 50-bit wiegand output and can be ordered with 34-bit output for third party systems. For ultra-secure installations readers can be ordered with OSDP1 & 2 capability. All readers are potted for indoor and outdoor use.

BFR Face 15: Brand New Face Recognition Reader

A new addition to RBH BlueLINE, the RBH Facial Recognition Reader is completely embedded into all RBH platforms allowing the operator to seamlessly enrol users. The readers feature fast, accurate recognition using an advanced algorithm for unparalleled precision. Users will also enjoy sound and visual feedback on their entry.

It’s a security solution that integrates face recognition, a card reader, and mobile credentials into one package.

CCTV Integration

Integration capabilities of RBH’s sophisticated access control and security management systems are further extended through an open architecture interface with a wide range of video surveillance systems.

Supporting multiple CCTV makes and models on the same system simultaneously provides enhanced flexibility and freedom of choice. Simplifying video search or allowing access point control directly from the live video screen provides a wide range of user-friendly features.

Over the internet or office LAN, a system user has direct system-wide access to live video, event viewing, history event-based video search and video export functionalities. Custom tailored assignments link individual access and monitoring points to specific cameras across multiple DVRs, providing an ability to set pre- and post-alarm viewing preferences and PTZ shots.

RBH’s system provides direct access to CCTV features from the system status screen, event log display and history report module.

Netgenium: Delivering IP PoE Solutions

Netgenium are a UK manufacturer of a range of IP Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) products and solutions. Today, their portfolio has gradually expanded to include what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive IP Public Address solution available on the market.

Their recently developed range of PoE Powered Analogue Speakers now offers installers an easy, timesaving and cost-saving solution to add audio to new and existing installations.

Netgenium IP Audio System

The Netgenium IP Audio system is an incredibly scalable and flexible network-based solution that, once installed, offers a vast range of functionality.

The range of functionality has led to the IP Audio solution being installed into many vertical sectors including schools, warehouses, car parks, retail stores, transport systems and residential properties, to name a few.

The flexibility of the system means that a system installed today, offering a lockdown alert solution in a school, could also be used as a class change system, a public address system, a music streaming system, etc. from day one or sometime in the future.

The IP audio system range features 8 IP PoE speaker models, all of which feature on-board memory for storing audio files, 4 digital inputs and 4 digital outputs, microphone input for 2-way audio, and so much more.

Communication methods include Netgenium NGxControl PC/Server software, CCTV system integration, Sentinel remote monitoring software integration, 100v Line analogue speaker system integration and IP telephony integration amongst many others.

PoE Powered Analogue Speakers

The Netgenium range of PoE Powered Analogue speakers provide installers with an easy solution to add audio to new and existing installations.

Using two cables, simply connect the speaker to an analogue audio source (like a CCTV camera or NVR) and power from a PoE power source such as an existing network switch, midspan, injector or extender.

A user or monitoring station simply talks to the CCTV camera and any audio is played through the PoE Powered Analogue Speaker. Some CCTV cameras have a built-in speaker to play live or pre-recorded announcements, adding a Netgenium PoE Powered Analogue speaker will increase both the volume and quality of the audio.

Powering via PoE brings huge benefits. By removing the need for mains voltage power supplies and an electrician to install them, it both simplifies the installation and reduces installation cost. The Netgenium PoE Powered Analogue speaker follows the PoE rules which guarantees full power up to 100m. The speaker has also been tested with PoE Extenders and PoE Splitters and for one installation, the speaker and CCTV camera were both powered 850m from the main hub.

The Netgenium PoE Powered Analogue speakers range includes 2 speaker models, power by PoE, a manual volume control and an RCA Phono lead to connect to the audio source. They’re also a customer favourite due to their easy to install and cost-effective features.

Netgenium PoE Powered Analogue speakers are used to help protect private homes, construction sites, business units, solar farms, and car parks.

Demonstrations at TSE 2023

We’re hosting demonstrations of RBH’s fantastic touch-free access control solutions, Netgenium’s PoE Solutions, and more from other huge brands in the CCTV and security industry at The Security Event 2023.

The other well-known brands we will be demonstrating include TP-Link, Veracity, and a first look in the UK of the recently rebranded Avigilon Alta (formerly Ava Security).

Ava Security provide simple, smart security to protect people, businesses, and data. Their cloud-native video security surveillance solutions feature cutting-edge A.I. analytics and operational insights, providing a complete security ecosystem at your fingertips. You can add this A.I. technology to your existing cameras, so you don’t have to replace them!

TP-Link are the world’s largest networking manufacturer, providing smart cloud solutions for business networking and business surveillance systems. They continue to develop award-winning networking products in Wireless, Mesh, ADSL, Routers, Switches, IP Cameras, Powerline Adapters, Print Servers, Media Converters and Network Adapters and Smart Home for global end-users.

Veracity manufactures an extensive portfolio of IP video surveillance products for IP transmission, video storage, video wall display controllers and integrated security management software for 360º situational awareness. Their products include IP transmission solutions, POE Switches, Power over Ethernet, Long Range Extenders and Ethernet over Coax devices.

Come and see QED on stand 4/E20 at the UK’s number one security event at the NEC, Birmingham on 25^th – 27^th April!

Doing Distribution Differently

Good People is of huge importance to every single person who works at QED. We understand we are in a service industry and our job is to serve. We also know you are not an interruption to our work, but the purpose of our work.

Matt Philp, our Managing Director at QED, says:

‘’Good People is the ethos we adhere to at QED. We love building lasting relationships with our customers and seeing them succeed. We have a strong team of dedicated individuals who truly care about the service we offer.

When working with our customers, we generate a personal understanding of what challenges you face, so we can help offer you a bespoke solution to overcome them and make your life easier.’’

We don’t see you as an outsider, but part of our business. Ultimately, we know without customers, we have no business. We want to give people outstanding service and really help you achieve and succeed.

We look forward to seeing you all at TSE 2023.

What is surveillance technology and why does your business need it?

While your company’s interest in security and safety may be higher than ever, the technology you use in order to support your safeguarding activity could be outdated. So how can you tell if it’s time for a shakeup, or if your surveillance systems are already serving their purpose in the modern world?

What is surveillance technology, and how could it be the answer, moving from a traditional analog system to a far more effective, and reliable IP network? With improvements to speed, ease of use and accuracy, an IP CCTV solution can offer businesses a far more efficient and safe way of working, making the lengthy processing and poor-quality video footage of analog solutions a thing of the past.

Retrieve and extract footage faster

Analog surveillance management systems can be problematic. Suzanne Waugh is an experienced Regional Sales Manager at IndigoVision and after working closely with security teams, she’s noticed that:

The biggest pain point for security operators is the time it takes to retrieve footage; the process to export it; to take video footage off the system; and to locate the footage they want – this is usually done via each individual camera.

For example, you might be trying to spot a particular vehicle on a public street. You know the colour, make and registration plate, but that’s all you have to go on – your job is to manually sit and look through three days’ worth of footage, fast-forwarding through the video at x16 until you think you’ve found the right vehicle.

The updated approach to solve this same issue is to automate your surveillance systems. Instead of spending precious time fixated on the video, looking for a particular piece of evidence, an IP CCTV solution can do this for you:

Run simple motion analytics in live or playback to show any vehicle that appears within the scene
In playback, objects of interest will be flagged for review
In live, Artificial Intelligence can be used to alert when a number plate has appeared in the scene and/or when a particular vehicle type and colour has appeared in the scene
This way, you can navigate away from your desk to work on something else
Then an alarm will notify you when there’s movement and you have a registration plate
This footage will be of sufficient quality to be used immediately as evidence in court

The advantages to the safety and security of your premises aren’t the only benefit to updating your surveillance management system, as Suzanne Waugh explains:

The processes that operators with older systems go through to do their job will become simpler and quicker with current IP CCTV software. They’ll be able to save time and make their job easier.

Get superior quality video footage

If you haven’t updated your surveillance management system for a few years, chances are the capabilities of the equipment you’re using match that of technology at the time – think how far cameras have come in that time.

Also, if you’re relying on outdated solutions, it’s probably frustrating when the video you’re relying on isn’t even of sound quality and can’t be used. On a more serious level, it may mean the difference between being able to protect those in your care, and not. Suzanne Waugh has seen this many times before:

After all the effort of exporting the footage and manually finding the exact bit you need – by going into each camera individually, and scrolling through all the footage – the evidential quality of the video doesn’t actually satisfy the requirements to be able to use in a prosecution.

If someone has an accident, witnesses are likely to report different things. But with an up-to-date security surveillance system, you can support word-of-mouth accounts with genuinely useful video footage. Simon Steer is the Regional Sales Director at IndigoVision and knows how important this is:

The quality of the picture and the recordings you get are important – getting evidential-level footage is a requirement that’s common to all businesses. Ask yourself: if I had to, could I take this evidence to court and would it be accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service?

Monitor behaviours at your business

Your security surveillance system can serve other functions, too, such as monitoring the working practice of employees, as well as monitoring customers and members of the public who engage with your business.

Also, if you’re using an analog system, you probably can’t monitor these things, due to factors such as poorly placed cameras, or the wrong types of cameras in the wrong locations. If you’re trying to work out if your system could do with an update, ask:

Do you know the most common pathways around your business that people walk, drive or cycle?
Do you know what the busiest times of day are, and the areas that create bottlenecks?
Can you identify how people interact with their built environment?

Suzanne Waugh explains that knowing the answers to these questions can be essential to your company’s future construction planning:

Where do people congregate? Where do people dwell or stop? What are the common routes around your areas? How do people travel – how many bikes; how many cars or buses; how many men and women? All of this analysis can lead to better safeguarding in the future.

A lot more businesses want to get intelligence out of their surveillance system, rather than just using it as a security measure. Simon Steer, has met businesses who are using their security footage in increasingly innovative ways:

In town centres traditionally people just wanted ‘eyes on the streets’. However, now, because of the way high-street shopping is declining due to internet giants, we’re starting to see requirements for things like footfall – when there’s an event in the town centre, how does that affect footfall in shopping? How many more people are in town that day?

Discovering information such as popular directions of travel can help businesses and cities plan for future events. For example, understanding how people disperse from a major event, such as a stadium concert or exhibition, allows a business to better plan safety and/or transport provision for future events.

Businesses using AI are on the rise – are you one of them?

If you’re only using security surveillance for the purpose of safety, you’re not utilizing the full capacity of equipment as an intelligence tool. The AI possibilities highlighted above are becoming a core part of surveillance for many businesses, and Simon Steer says there are options available that aren’t as difficult to use as you may first imagine:

There are extremely easy-to-use, mature platforms with simple functionality out there. Control Center has been around for a really long time – some of their standard features have been running for 15 years but many operators working on analog still don’t know about or use them.

He also recommends exploring your options and what’s available to you. Some businesses are successful in applying for funding – for example, one city in the UK was able to use these advanced analytics because they won a grant.

Suzanne Waugh says that many companies aren’t quite investigating how to apply for the budget to upgrade their surveillance management systems just yet; but this time next year, AI solutions are going to start becoming more prevalent across the UK:

The number of people using AI is rising– I get asked about it every three days or so now. It’s early days – in terms of what businesses can learn, it’ll help them plan for the future, give them environmental insights about how people travel, and the most popular routes – you can’t put a price on that sort of information.

Most industries will benefit from using AI, including university campuses, cities and sports venues, but also transport hubs such as airports, subways and train stations. Those in commercial environments can use it to decide how to use signage, and to benefit their marketing: the sky really is the limit.

No matter the sector you work in, security is likely to be high up on your list of priorities. In today’s world, businesses can’t afford not to prioritize it. The safety of members of the public and consumers who fall under your duty of care is paramount – it’s time to ensure investment in your security surveillance systems reflects this.

A Scalable Security Solution:

Faced with a number of security challenges and planned future expansion, a major airport decided it was time to implement a scalable security surveillance solution. Here, QED’s partner, IndigoVision, take a look at how to manage such a scenario to ensure the selected solution provides scalability for growth.

Security issues and analog hangovers

With the existing proprietary solution at the airport locked down to one manufacturer and littered with issues resulting in high maintenance and expansion costs, a new solution was required that would allow the airport to scale its surveillance solution in line with future expansion plans.

Not only was the existing surveillance solution analog and proprietary, it wasn’t intuitive and was difficult for operators to use. There were several “satellite” security installations scattered in the various terminal buildings that weren’t viewable in the centralised Control Room. This meant extra operators were required. The low-resolution analog cameras made it difficult to identify people during incidents and coupled with the lack of video coverage it gave operators poor situational awareness. Reviewing past events with the existing VMS was difficult as playback wasn’t synchronised. Also, without bookmarks, it was time-consuming to find important events.

The combination of multiple terminal buildings and the Centralised Analog Architecture resulted in bottlenecks and latency issues as all processing must pass through the centralised server. There was also no redundancy so if there was any failure in the system the Control Room would no longer have the capability to view live or recorded video. Additionally, as the system was locked down to one manufacturer and the whole system had to be hardwired to the centralised server, there were very expensive expansion costs.

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Addressing security and scalability concerns

The required solution had multiple requirements to ensure that the existing issues were resolved and that the solution could scale with the planned expansion.

With expansion planned to facilitate growing passenger numbers, an open IP based solution was specified to replace the existing analog solution. The aim being to improve situational awareness, provide scalability and integrate with a number of other systems operating in the airport.

The architecture needed to limit bottlenecks, reduce latency issues, provide redundancy advantages and be scalable to allow for multiple new terminal buildings to be connected with ease.

New HD cameras were specified to improve image quality and coverage with a Video Wall required in order to view and manage the increase in video streams in the centralised Control Room. New large capacity NVR’s were also specified to cope with the increase in camera streams and an extra NVR for redundancy and failover.

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Distributed Architecture helped exceed requirements

A solution with Distributed Architecture was chosen as it solved multiple issues with the existing solution and facilitated future expansion without the need for a centralised server.

Distributed Architecture allows data to be kept close to where it is produced or needed. When cameras, surveillance workstations, NVRs, alarm servers, integration gateways all participate in a Distributed Architecture, data bottlenecks are minimised as all processing doesn’t need to pass through a centralised server. Distributed Architecture provides a truly unlimited and scalable solution that can easily accommodate the largest airports in the world.

Distributed Architecture minimised the existing bottlenecks, reduced latency, and provided higher availability and faster access to data. It also allowed all “satellite” security installations to be viewed in the centralised Control Room; enhancing situational awareness. New HD cameras were installed and due to the scalability of Distributed Architecture, future cameras can easily be connected when needed. Furthermore, the scalability of Distributed Architecture enabled the airport to build new terminal buildings and connect with ease to the security solution when ready.

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Lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Distributed Architecture enables planned future expansion as it can support thousands of cameras, workstations and NVR’s dramatically reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The scalability of Distributed Architecture allows the airport to continue with planned expansion and add a single camera/NVR or a whole new terminal when needed.

Contact QED to discuss what the IndigoVision range can do for you:

Call: 01772 336 111
Email: sales@qedgroup.co.uk

25 Years of IndigoVision

This year IndigoVision are excited to celebrate 25 years in the security industry and as one of our partners we’d like to share some of their guest bloggers thoughts on the security industry.

Kicking off with IndigoVision’s CEO Pedro Simoes…

2019 is an exciting year for IndigoVision as we mark 25 years of developing innovative, complete, end-to-end security surveillance solutions. We are extremely proud to have been in the industry for such a significant amount of time and to have become one of the leading companies within security, celebrating many successes along the way.

In 2001 we introduced one of the world’s first Network Video Recorders (NVRs) to the security industry, this was closely followed with the release of IndigoVision’s Control Center, one of the world’s first scalable VMS. IndigoVision celebrated 10 years in the security industry by providing IP video at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. This innovation continued in 2008 with the launch of our full frame rate guaranteed HD security camera, and then in 2010 IndigoVision became one of the first security company to make our security management solution truly open by allowing third-party cameras and security systems to be seamlessly connected to Control Center. Around 2017 cyber-security became a large trend in the security industry and to aid in making our user’s security installations more cyber-secure IndigoVision unveiled its award-winning innovative technology, CyberVigilant®. With the ability to monitor and detect system anomalies CyberVigilant® provides a quick response to potential cyber-threats by notifying users in the Control Center interface. Following the success of this launch, we released the same technology in selected IndigoVision cameras to provide an extra layer of support.

With so many achievements the IndigoVision team and I are very excited to be developing other exciting innovative technologies which will continue to keep us at the forefront of the security industry. At IndigoVision we always strive to give you the right solution, experience, technology, and support to provide you with the innovation that makes you safe.

Finally, I would like to give thanks to all our partners, distributors, end users, and staff for the continued support, it is fantastic. I’m looking forward to the celebrations continuing in the years to come.

Pedro

25 years of IndigoVision

Are you prepared for a potential cyber-attack?

There are two types of companies in the world, those that know they have been hacked and those that don’t know it yet. With cybercrime on the rise, never before has it been so crucial to every company’s safety to have cybersecurity technology installed and integrated to their security system.

IndigoVision offers customers a complete end-to-end security management solution. Not only does IndigoVision have a cybersecurity offering, but it has also released a security hardening guide which contains information on the best practices for protecting security systems.

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What is CyberVigilant^®?

The CyberVigilant^® device simply connects to a managed edge network switch to monitor connected devices using Switched Port Analyser (SPAN) functionality. In the event that any anomalies are detected, alarms are sent directly into the Control Center user interface. This enables users to respond immediately to a cyber-attack.

These anomalies include, but are not limited to:

unauthorized configuration access attempts
network reconnaissance/scans
device access from unauthorized clients
shell access
use of unauthorized DNS, NTP and SMTP servers
Denial Of Service (DoS)

It is available for purchase in two options, suitable for monitoring 16- or 24-channel edge switches.

CyberVigilant^® in Camera is designed around the same principles as the CyberVigilant^® device, but the technology is inside selected BX cameras, made possible through a firmware update. CyberVigilant^® in Camera is able to track any attempts from unauthorized devices trying to access them, sending real-time alerts to Control Center, and refusing to communicate with any device that’s not on the whitelist.

For more information about IndigoVision’s cyber-security offering please contact Quality Essential Distribution now:

Telephone: 01772 336111
Email: sales@qedgroup.co.uk

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IndigoVision are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new integration between Control Center and Avigilon Access Control Manager (ACM), empowering operators to react faster.

What you can achieve:

For more information, please call us on 01772 336111 and speak to your account manager directly or email sales@qedgroup.co.uk.

VIGI 8MP IR Panoramic Turret Network Camera

InSight S655I

360° Coverage with 4-in-1 Cameras, with Two Way Audio and Smart Detection

VIGI 5MP IR Fisheye Network Camera

Why Networking First Makes a Difference in CCTV

Common problems with traditional CCTV set ups

Video Management System (VMS) in CCTV

VIGI 4MP Outdoor Full-Colour Bullet Network Camera

Take a Look at Our Team in Action!

RBH: Delivering Access Control to Security

Axiom Lite: Integrating Access Control

Axiom Xa: Versatile Security Management Solution

BlueLINE: Award-Winning Security Readers

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What is surveillance technology and why does your business need it?

Retrieve and extract footage faster

The advantages to the safety and security of your premises aren’t the only benefit to updating your surveillance management system, as Suzanne Waugh explains:

Get superior quality video footage

If you haven’t updated your surveillance management system for a few years, chances are the capabilities of the equipment you’re using match that of technology at the time – think how far cameras have come in that time.

If someone has an accident, witnesses are likely to report different things. But with an up-to-date security surveillance system, you can support word-of-mouth accounts with genuinely useful video footage. Simon Steer is the Regional Sales Director at IndigoVision and knows how important this is:

Monitor behaviours at your business

Suzanne Waugh explains that knowing the answers to these questions can be essential to your company’s future construction planning:

A lot more businesses want to get intelligence out of their surveillance system, rather than just using it as a security measure. Simon Steer, has met businesses who are using their security footage in increasingly innovative ways:

Businesses using AI are on the rise – are you one of them?

Suzanne Waugh says that many companies aren’t quite investigating how to apply for the budget to upgrade their surveillance management systems just yet; but this time next year, AI solutions are going to start becoming more prevalent across the UK:

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