The new XProtect 2022 R3 VMS update
builds upon previous innovations to deliver a streamlined, integrated, easy-to-use,
yet very powerful user experience. With this latest product update, Milestone
Systems continues to advance enterprise-level video technology to meet the
market’s rising demand for comprehensive, best-in-class video technology
solutions.
The
R3 update refines and improves upon what VMS users need most; reliable,
powerful, easy to use and manage, open platform solutions that offer the
flexibility and security to meet any video management need. By extending
Incident Manager’s intuitive capabilities across the XProtect family of
products, and by incorporating several other user experience and system
performance enhancements, 2022 R3 is a highly recommended software update for
all XProtect users.
“There
are some fantastic new features in the new XProtect 2022 R3 VMS, all of which
will help to make life easier for our customers. Customer-centric updates like
this underpin our philosophy of bringing ease of use and enhanced productivity
to our customers,” says Clifton Greeff, National Surveillance Business Manager
at
Duxbury Networking, local distributors of Milestone technology.
XProtect
Incident Manager expansion
Incident
Manager, introduced in 2022 R2, is now available as a licensed extension for
XProtect Express+, XProtect Professional+ and XProtect Expert; it is still
included as a key feature in XProtect Corporate.
Incident
Manager allows users to manage incidents directly in their VMS and connect
video footage with incidents as they unfold — with a single button click. “You
can easily assign footage to incidents. So, you start an incident and then
XProtect Incident Manager automatically captures the video you are watching
live and adds it to the incident. And after the fact, you can add additional
footage,” says Greeff.
When
the incident is over, users can stop the capture and start filling in incident
details. “Incident Manager also allows you to seamlessly and automatically
export your video evidence by adding the incident’s video to the export list,”
Greeff explains. Incident types are fully configurable, allowing users to
define incident types and details for reporting. Configuration options include
free text, drop-down lists, dates and time fields, and several other options.
Previously recorded footage can also be added to an incident to strengthen the
evidence.
Greeff
points out that Incident Manager is ideal for accurately recording incidents all
activities, actions and changes related to an incident in the log system;
keeping track of all changes done by users.
Licence
Plate Recognition performance improvements
XProtect 2022 R3 features a range of licence plate recognition (LPR) performance improvements. The newly updated LPR feature enables users to recognise, sort and bundle licence plate types by analysing and recognising different types of motor vehicles more efficiently. Depending on the country’s plate style, users will be able to differentiate trucks from private cars, or even police cars, limousines, and buses from other vehicle types. Similarly, some countries have separate plates for gas-driven or electric cars, which can also now be readily identified through LPR.
XProtect 2022 R3 also delivers SSO
support in Web and Mobile Client, and several UX, search and performance updates.
Here is an overview of enhancements within XProtect 2022 R3:
- XProtect Incident Manager is
now available as a licensed extensions for XProtect Express+, XProtect
Professional+ and XProtect Expert.
- Search enhancements for XProtect Management Client, and
XProtect Smart Client.
- UX improvements to XProtect Smart Client and XProtect
Web Client.
- SSO (Single Sign On) support through external IDPs in
XProtect Web and XProtect Mobile.
- Mobile device management in XProtect Mobile.
- Accessing XProtect Mobile via biometry or other device
credentials.
- General performance
improvements to XProtect LPR.