//////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: PHYSICAL SECURITY, POWERED BY GENETEC
IN A UNIFIED SOLUTION LIKE SECURITY
CENTRE, CYBERSECURITY IS APPLIED
– AND UPDATED – ACROSS ALL
PHYSICAL SECURITY COMPONENTS.
Your physical security
solution should be unified
and not just integrated
While the security industry (like the rest
of the software industry) has worked to
develop a variety of methods to bring
separate physical security solutions
together via integration, the result remains
a set of disparate systems with limited
communication and interoperability among
them. Integrating separate security functions
like access control and video surveillance
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using software development kits (SDK) or
application programming interface (API)
programming only is limited and can be a
costly approach.
Unification, however, takes stand-alone
components of a security solution beyond
just being loosely or superficially connected
via an SDK or API. A unified physical
security platform is a comprehensive
software solution that manages the
different components of a security
environment through a centralised open-
architecture built to provide complete
access to all data.
A unified platform goes above and beyond
tagging or bookmarking video when an
access control event occurs or offering the
capability to unlock an access-controlled
door from within the video surveillance user
interface. It’s a platform that combines
information from all available sensors to
provide greater awareness to operators. This
not only means showing video feeds when
alerts are triggered by the access control
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