Most security departments have plenty of technology. What they lack is actionable data.
- A traditional VMS stores video to search later. SecurOS® analyzes it live, connects it to other systems and routes it to the person who needs to act.
- One interface brings together video, access control, alarms and third-party systems.
- More than 50 native analytic modules alert operators the moment an event happens.
- Guided response scenarios, escalation and after-action reports turn alerts into action.
- SecurOS® scales from one site to a global command center, with open architecture and built-in failover.
The cameras are recording. Video analytics monitor the environment. The access control system is granting and/or denying access. But each one lives in its own application, and the operator watching them is one person with two eyes and a finite amount of focus. When something happens, critical minutes go to clicking between screens, piecing together what happened and figuring out who should respond.
That’s the gap a traditional video management system (VMS) was never built to close. However, the SecurOS® Video Intelligence Platform from ISS was designed for exactly that job. SecurOS® manages more than 7 million cameras across more than 400,000 projects in over 50 countries.
SecurOS® by the Numbers
Scale like that comes from a different starting point. A traditional VMS treats video as something to store and search after the fact. SecurOS® treats it as live data to analyze as it streams in, connects to other building systems and routes it to the person who needs to act. That shift shows up in six ways SecurOS® changes the daily work of a security team.
The old way
Traditional VMS: store it, search it later
- Each system lives in its own application
- Events are discovered during review, hours later
- Operators figure out the response on their own
- Growth means rip-and-replace
- Locked into one vendor’s cameras and road map
- A server failure becomes a blind spot
The SecurOS® way
Analyze it live, route it to whoever needs to act
- Video, access control and alarms in one interface
- 50+ analytic modules alert operators in real time
- Guided response scenarios with automatic escalation
- Scales from one site to a global command center
- Open architecture with 100+ supported manufacturers
- Native failover clustering keeps operations running
1. Unified Operations
Every application an operator has to switch to is a chance to miss something. SecurOS® pulls video together with access control, intrusion and fire alarms, and other third-party systems in a single interface, so operators see the whole picture in one place.
2. AI-Powered Video Intelligence
A video system that only records tells you what happened after someone goes looking. A camera network running analytics tells you what’s happening now.
SecurOS® serves as the central nervous system for a portfolio of more than 50 different analytic modules that run natively on the platform. SecurOS® Auto reads license plates. SecurOS® FaceX handles facial capture and recognition. The SecurOS® Tracking Kit runs multiple analytic detectors on a single camera. When a defined event occurs, such as an intrusion or suspicious behavior, operators are alerted immediately instead of discovering it during a review hours later.
3. Intelligent Incident Management and Automation
An alert is only useful if someone acts on it correctly. SecurOS® turns alarms into a structured response.
Organizations build customizable response scenarios that walk operators through the protocol for each incident type. If an operator doesn’t respond within a set time, alarm delegation escalates the incident to a supervisor. Afterward, SecurOS® generates after-action reports that show how each incident was handled.
Alert
A defined event triggers an instant alert to the operator.
Guided Response
A custom scenario walks the operator through the protocol.
Escalation
No response in time? The incident goes to a supervisor.
After-Action Report
Every step is documented to show how the incident was handled.
4. Room to Scale
The platform a security team installs today has to handle the cameras it adds over the next decade. SecurOS® grows with the operation instead of forcing a rip-and-replace.
SecurOS® Enterprise, for example, supports unlimited servers and cameras. For organizations spread across cities or continents, SecurOS® MCC (Monitoring and Control Center) monitors and manages an entire global security infrastructure from a single command center, while each site keeps running locally.
An organization can start with one site and expand to dozens without retraining operators on a new system.
5. Open Architecture and Interoperability
Closed systems lock organizations into one vendor’s cameras, one vendor’s pricing and one vendor’s road map. SecurOS® supports cameras and other solutions from 100+ manufacturers and includes an extensive API/SDK toolkit for third-party integration.
That means organizations can keep the cameras and systems they already own, then add new sensors, analytics and applications as needs change.
6. Resilience for Mission Critical Environments
Servers fail. Security operations can’t. SecurOS® includes native failover clustering, from a simple 2+1 setup to configurations with dozens of servers. For airports, utilities, city surveillance networks and other mission-critical environments, that’s the difference between a brief blip and a blind spot.
From Watching to Knowing
Recording video is no longer enough. The organizations getting ahead are the ones turning that video into decisions – spotting the event as it happens, routing it to the right person and documenting what was done. That’s the shift SecurOS® was built for, from a single facility to a global command center.
Stop watching video. Start acting on it.
See how the SecurOS® Video Intelligence Platform unifies your security operations, from a single facility to a global command center.
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