Milestone: X-Protect 2016 launch at Intersec

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released a new version of the XProtect VMS product suite for partners and customers. The announcement for the EMEA market was held at Intersec in Dubai on January 17th.

XProtect 2016 empowers control room operators in high security installations to proactively respond to incidents. This advanced video wall is a collaborative canvas, enabling them to collectively assess a situation. They can share alarms, images, maps and bookmarks, in addition to live video using XProtect Smart Wall 2016. Organizations are also in greater control of their surveillance investment, as XProtect 2016 boasts a number of features designed to reduce the overall cost of ownership.

The user benefits:

• Improved System Performance –Hardware decoding with XProtect 2016 enables use of the latest 4K/UHD camera technology and improves video rendering performance dramatically. An extended system monitor gives real-time overview of system status to enable proactive service. New functions let users move devices between servers for seamless system expansions.
   
• Optimized Incident Handling –Rich Smart Wall content from alarms, images, bookmarks, maps and more improve incident response time and operational focus.  XProtect 2016 is introducing Push Notification that notifies a remote user of an alarm (including instructions and video). Video can also be pushed from the mobile device’s own camera to XProtect, to share and document incidents wherever they are.
   
• Video Enablement - Milestone XProtect LPR and XProtect Access (formerly called XProtect Access Control Module) have been further improved. XProtect Transact 2016 for retail solutions has been further integrated with the XProtect Smart Client to make investigation of incidents more efficient.       

For partners:                

• Improved deployment and customer operations - License handling has been simplified to facilitate faster installation and easier updates. Off-line systems now have far more elasticity in licensing without needing to be online. Smart Connect makes it easy to set up mobile users. The Customer Dashboard online remote system monitoring enables proactive service by Milestone partners to ensure optimum operations, and this has been extended in XProtect 2016 with the ability to document maintenance history and system performance.

The launching video to the XProtect 2016 can be found here.