Video Management System features

Core Architecture & Scalability

• Highly scalable professional video surveillance platform (from 1 to thousands of cameras)
• Unlimited number of cameras, servers, and remote clients
• Multi-server federated architecture
• Failover (hot-swap) functionality
• Cloud-ready architecture
• Cloud mode for optimized camera connections
• Container-based server architecture
• Native Docker container support
• Runs on ARM and Intel/AMD CPUs
• Cross-platform server application
• One-click update for all servers
• Server auto-reboot configuration
• Factory reset option

Camera & Protocol Support

• RTSP, ONVIF, Axis, ISAPI, LightAPI protocol support
• Quad-lens camera support
• Camera-side video analytics integration
• Automatic camera discovery
• Embedded camera analytics
• Import and export camera list via CSV
• Advanced camera search in sidebar

Video & Audio Streaming

• Real-time simultaneous video and audio recording
• Support for high-resolution IP cameras (H.264, H.265)
• GPU-accelerated video encoding and decoding
• Multi-stream camera support with automatic and manual stream switching
• Live streaming via HLS, WebSocket (vCloud.ai protocol), and WebRTC
• Low-latency live streaming
• Low-latency archive playback via HLS
• Synchronized archive playback
• Live analytics tracking
• Select-to-Zoom in video window

Storage & Archive Management

• Unlimited storage capacity per server
• DAS, NAS, SAN, iSCSI, Object Storage and EDGE storage support
• Archive depth configuration
• Per-camera storage settings (resolution, FPS, codec)
• Network storage failure notifications
• Archive migration between servers
• Multi-camera timeline
• Multi-camera export
• Storage cleanup tools
• Instant event export (video and snapshot)
• Instant replay
• Multiple storage devices support
• Archive configuration and management tools
• Archive export with SHA-2 watermark
• Scheduled snapshot saving
• Archive migration between servers
• Improved event filter with subtypes
• Switch all cameras to archive mode simultaneously

Client Applications & UI

• Full-featured Web application
• Desktop applications for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Mobile applications for Android and iOS
• Camera search and status indicators
• Live stream preview in maps
• Automatic and manual layout switching
• Layout editor, layout sharing, layout groups
• Automatic layout creation
• Layout search
• Video wall functionality
• New layout window types (including intercoms)

Layouts, Maps & GIS

• Camera grouping
• Layout creation and configuration
• Multi-level layouts
• GIS integration
• Embedded geo maps
• Multi-layer floor plans
• Camera placement with field-of-view visualisation
• Maps embedded into layouts
• Live video preview in map view
• Select-to-Zoom video inspection tool
• Automatic layout switching based on events
• System health monitoring
• System simulation Demo mode
• Familiarisation mode

User Management & Security

• Flexible user rights and role-based access control
• Multi-tenancy support
• LDAP authentication
• Two-factor authentication via email (2FA)
• Password security policies
• Online and offline license activation
• User activity logs
• SHA-2 watermarking for exported video files

Integrations (Security & Enterprise)

• Access control system integration
• Fire alarm system integration
• Zenitel intercom integration
• Suprema BioStar integration
• Lumiring access control integration
• POS and ATM subtitles integration
• Hikvision I/O support
• Videoguard (SIRA) integration
• QR code reader
• POS and ATM subtitles integration

AI & Video Analytics

• Human detection
• Vehicle detection
• Smoke and fire detection
• Motorbike riders without helmets
• PPE detection (helmets, safety vests)
• Face recognition
• Human interaction analytics
• Behavior analytics
• Animal detection
• Industrial analytics (pallets, forklifts)
• Open/closed gate detection
• QR code reader
• Crowd detection analytics
• License Plate Recognition (LPR)
• Traffic analytics with direction settings
• Human and vehicle counting analytics
• AI tags for object tagging and forensic search
• Heatmaps
• Scene change and sabotage detection
• Multiple analytics per single camera
• Multiple AI detection rules per camera
• Ultralytics YOLO custom model integration
• Visual Assistant (LLM-based custom analytics creation tool)
• Advanced AI configuration UI
• Multi-GPU support
• Offline AI Tags based on Visual Assistant LLM (object tagging and event classification even without cloud connectivity)
• Multiple analytics per single camera
• Multiple Visual Assistant detection rules per camera
• Custom AI models support

Events, Alarms & Monitoring

• Alarm monitor
• Alarm notification panel
• Centralised event monitoring
• Event filtering and sub-filters
• Advanced event search
• Event photo preview
• Event as JSON
• Event reports export to CSV
• Email notifications
• Privacy masking
• Telegram messanger notifications
• WebSocket notifications
• On-alarm recording
• Event filtering logic

PTZ & Camera Control

• PTZ pan, tilt, and zoom control
• PTZ presets and patrolling
• PTZ zoom control
• PTZ joystick support

Configuration, Automation & Management

• Visual server and component configuration
• Bulk configuration for video analytics
• Import/export camera list via CSV
• Export/import full VMS configuration
• Manual recording pause
• Switch all cameras to archive mode simultaneously
• Scheduled recording and processing rules
• Bandwidth limit per camera in live view
• Tools for multi-stream configuration
• Automatic layout switching
• Camera and system configuration management

API, Customization & Reporting

• Full-featured REST API
• API feature expansion
• Branding customization options
• Attendance and evacuation reports
• System logs download

Localization & Language Support

• Full multilingual support
• Supported languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Chinese, Circassian, English, French, German, Hindi, Iranian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese