Thumbnail Search is a standard feature of exacqVision Start, Pro and Enterprise.

Our new exacqVision Edge product, a complete Enterprise VMS server running on an IP camera, was featured. Initially supporting Axis IP cameras with ARTPEC 3 & 4 processors, exacqVision Edge loads directly onto the IP camera. Edge provides complete exacqVision Enterprise functionality without the need for an external server. Edge cameras appear in the camera tree just like cameras from any other server, and can be mixed and matched with existing exacqVision servers. Ideal for add-on cameras to existing systems where additional servers are too costly or not practical, for wireless outdoor cameras where consistent network connectivity is an issue, for short-term or covert deployment where there is no network connectivity, and for installations requiring distributed storage for high reliability. Ease of deployment for integrators: install and configure exacqVision Edge at the shop, then simply ship the cameras to the site for mounting and POE connection to network.

exacqVision 4.9 – Our latest release, Version 4.9, includes extensive new Search and Playback features, including Thumbnail Search. Finding the desired video is faster and easier than ever, and thumbnail search is ideal for low-bandwidth remote connections. Other new features include significant client video display speed improvements, new enhancements to exacqVision Video Wall including switched Views on alarm, enhanced Maps with integrated Soft Triggers, server management enhancements with new S.M.A.R.T. monitoring capability, new Hikvision native IP camera support, new fisheye IP camera support from Vivotek and ACTi, new encoder support from Axis, and more.

exacq Mobile 2.4 – The latest exacq Mobile release features significantly faster initialization and start times, true full-screen mode, easier add-camera functionality, and new support for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, in addition to Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android phones and tablets.

exacqVision Surveillance Keyboard – The new Surveillance Keyboard was shown, an ideal add-on to exacqVision systems. PTZ Joystick, 10 button numeric entry, 16 user defined buttons, left/right arrow wheel, and firmware custom-designed for exacqVision VMS.

Elsewhere on the show floor, exacqVision integration with IP cameras was featured in the Samsung booth, in the Bosch booth, in the IQinVision booth (running Edge), in the CNB booth, and in the StarDot booth. On the Access Control side, exacqVision integration with PremiSys Access Control system was featured in the IDenticard booth, and integration with S2 NetBox and S2 Pronto Access Control systems was featured in the S2 Security booth. Distribution partners Anixter and ADI were also highlighting exacqVision.

We certainly appreciate all of our integrators, distributors and end users who came by the booth. We’ll be back next year for ISC West 2013. Some pictures from the show are below. You can also view more pictures here.

Version 4.9 is available for download here:
http://exacq.com/downloads

Key features include the following:

• New Thumbnail Search
• Optimized Video Caching in Timeline Search
• New Video Wall Features
• Faster Client Display
• New Triggers on Maps
• New S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring in exacqVision Servers
• New Hikvision IP Camera Integration
• IP Camera Integration updates from ACTi, Axis, and Vivotek
• New Product – exacqVision Surveillance Keyboard

Here are some of the features in detail:

New Thumbnail Search
Thumbnail Search has been added to the Search page in Version 4.9. Thumbnail Search enables immediate visual assessment and the ability to quickly find the video needed. Fast, easy zooming in and out of search time frames, and forward and back in time. Instantly play back video from any thumbnail.

The thumbnail images are small in size, making thumbnail search ideal for low-bandwidth remote connections.

exacqVision Start, Pro, Enterprise

Optimized Video Caching in Timeline Search
New timeline search enhancements optimize caching of video downloads. Whether moving forward or back in time and selecting a different point with which to begin playback, video already downloaded stays in the cache. The new timeline optimized video caching is ideal for low-bandwidth remote connections.

exacqVision Start, Pro, Enterprise

New Video Wall Features
New Version 4.9 Video Wall functionality enables switching of Views on the video wall. User-created views can be displayed via event monitoring-based triggers such as motion, alarms and serial data.

Video Wall is a standard, included feature with exacqVision Pro and Enterprise at no additional cost.

This video wall image was taken at the Berklee College of Music.

exacqVision Pro, Enterprise

Faster Client Display
Version 4.9 client enhancements further leverage the GPU with optimized use of Direct3D and OpenGL. exacqVision Client video display rates are up to 75% faster. Live video is more fluid. The speed improvements will be seen on all exacqVision clients: Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

exacqVision Start, Pro, Enterprise

New Triggers on Maps
Soft triggers (user-defined events) created in exacqVision can now be integrated into Maps.

Access control operation (e.g. opening doors), video analytic alarms and other events can be placed on Maps, and can be viewed and controlled directly from the map, much the same way a PSIM solution would operate.

New S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring on exacqVision Servers
Version 4.9 adds S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) monitoring to all exacqVision servers. S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, in conjunction with the Enterprise-class drives used exclusively in exacqVision servers, helps anticipate drive failures by monitoring many aspects of the drive’s health.

exacqVision Start, Pro, Enterprise, Enterprise Health Manager

Hikvision IP Camera Integration
Support has been added for the B and C levels of Hikvision IP cameras, including the DS-2CD876BF 2 megapixel box camera, and the DS-2CD7153-E  2 megapixel mini dome.

The complete list of supported Hikvision models is available on the exacqVision IP Camera Integration webpage. More information on Hikvision IP cameras is here.

Supported IP Camera Updates

Vivotek
Support has been added for the Vivotek FE-8171V Fisheye Fixed Dome Network Camera.

ACTi
Support has been added for the ACTi KCM-3911 H.264 4-Megapixel IP D/N Hemispheric Network Camera.

Axis
Support has been added for the Axis P72 and Axis M70 lines of network encoders.

ExacqVision Surveillance Keyboard
The new exacqVision Surveillance Keyboard, with firmware designed specifically for exacqVision VMS, allows fast camera finding and navigation, enables easy Video Wall control, and PTZ control.

The exacqVision Surveillance Keyboard is available now. Part Number:

• 5000-50100 exacqVision Surveillance Keyboard

Recent Releases
With this release we continue to make rapid progress with exacqVision, and incremental releases hit quarterly with new features and functionality. The full release history of exacqVision VMS is here:
exacqVision Release History

Download and Installation
As always, the latest versions of exacqVision client and server software can easily and quickly be copied over existing versions while retaining all user settings. The latest versions are available through ‘Check for Updates‘ in the ‘About‘ box in the exacqVision software.

exacqVision Server software is available in both Windows and Linux versions, and the exacqVision client software is available in Windows, Linux and Macintosh native versions. Any version of exacqVision client can connect to any version of exacqVision server.

Download exacqVision Software here: http://exacq.com/downloads

Try exacqVision software for free here: http://exacq.com/try

The story starts out:

Rising above Miami’s financial district, the new Brickell World Plaza is the Sunshine State’s first commercial real estate tower to be pre-certified platinum under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Also referred to as 600 Brickell, the 40-story structure, which topped out in March 2011, is in fact one of only a handful of buildings like it in the world with a LEED rating of platinum.

With a goal to represent a new standard for technology in office development, 600 Brickell’s developer likewise sought to fortify the tower with state-of-the-art electronic security systems. To that end, Security Innovative Solutions (SIS) of Davie, Fla., was commissioned to provide the access control and video surveillance systems based on its advanced integration design philosophy and ample experience with other tower projects.

The original Pelco security system was being replaced:

“JMA brought us in because of the antiquation and the lack of scalability of the original security system,” says SIS Project Executive Maurice Gerovitz. “It was more designed to lasso the building owner and keep them tied down with licensing all different types of things for a long time.”

Discussing the equipment used:

A big motive for selecting the (Vivotek) 2-megapixel cameras was the capability for Exacq’s video management system (VMS) client to provide full digital p/t/z functionality, offering superior clarity for even facial recognition purposes. SIS installed two exacqVision Z-Series servers. These are standard off-the-shelf products; no major modifications were made to the hardware or software.

“The Z-Series is designed to meet the performance and storage requirements of enterprise video surveillance deployments and was clearly the right fit for this application,” notes Scott Dennison, senior product manager for Exacq Technologies. “While one of the servers is an IP camera server designed solely for network cameras, the other is a hybrid, which allows them to bring in analog and IP cameras on a single server.”

The networked cameras are spread out on the two servers and accessed via the VMS client in the tower’s 24/7 security command center. Since Exacq’s client software is free, the end user can deploy it anywhere to provide easy access for other security personnel and management, provided they have a network connection. …

“The exacqVision [VMS client] can be run on pretty much any workstation,” Santos explains. “My main concern from the get-go was to eliminate bottlenecks on the network. The custom computer gives us the flexibility to use up to 12 screens on the video wall. Otherwise, our solution would have to have a video wall controller with at least five different computers managing pieces of information.”

Concluding the story:

Bruner continues: “If you take into account that Brickell has a Gallagher access control system, an EasyLobby visitor management system, an ExacqVision video management solution, all integrated together with the [Gunnebo] optical turnstiles, [Thyssen Krupp] floor-by-floor elevator control, E-mail and SMS text notification, and photo ID badging, it is truly an integrated system.”

exacqVision Video Wall at 600 Brickell

The full case study is well worth reading, and is available here:
https://exacq.com/downloads/exacqvision.highrise.brickellworldplaza.pdf

Our thanks to exacqVision integrator Security Innovative Solutions for this successful deployment.

There is nothing typical about Berklee, which presents many challenges with regards to physical security. The student body of nearly 4,200 is served by approximately 1,000 faculty and staff members. The campus is made up of 30 different buildings spread across multiple city blocks in downtown Boston.

“Some of our buildings are over 100 years old,” notes Roy Murphy CPP, Director of Public Safety for Berklee. “They’re used to house students, classrooms, music studios, performance venues, editing facilities and more. People associated with the school are moving about the campus regularly throughout the entire day. Our situation is unique in that we also serve as a landlords to many retail tenants who occupy the lower levels of some of our buildings.”

Working with exacqVision integrator GS Security, Berklee replaced 16 legacy DVRs with exacqVision Hybrid servers as well as commercial servers, connecting to the existing 200 analog cameras, as well as adding over 100 IP cameras from Axis and Panasonic. In their security control center, a six-monitor video wall powered by the exacqVision client enables viewing of all 300+ cameras simultaneously.

The exacqVision native Macintosh client was one of the key factors in their decision:

Given the fact that Berklee is a highly creative environment, it’s not surprising to find many Apple Computer products on campus. In fact, Macintosh is the standard platform of the school and Macintosh computers are issued to students and faculty. “The fact that the exacqVision client is freely available on Macintosh computers, as well as Windows and Linux, was another huge selling point for us,” notes Nick Costa, Systems Manager with Berklee. “In addition to using the client on a Mac, many of our faculty members and even students use the free exacq Mobile app on their iPhones, iPads and even Android devices.”

The complete case study is here:
http://exacq.com/downloads/exacqvision-education-Berklee.pdf

Our thanks to Joe Gillis and Nick Sink and the team at GS Security for this impressive and professional installation.

Pictured, from left: John Sullivan, Senior VP Sales, ADI; Allan Stone, Distribution Sales Manager, Exacq; Andy Morra, VP Marketing, ADI; Michael Flink, President, ADI.

Version 4.8 is currently available for download here. Key features in the Version 4.8 release include:

• Faster, easier search 
• Panoramic video views
• Enhanced export Archiving 
• Improved Maps – Add I/O triggers to Maps 
• Audio alerts added to event monitoring
• ePlayer and exacqReplay Improvements 
• Post-motion recording configuration added
• IP Camera Additions from Arecont, Basler, more
• Czech Translation added 

Here are some of the features in detail:

Faster, Easier Search
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

Version 4.8 brings yet more Search Page improvements:

Improved Timeline – Cleaner, easier-to-use timeline bar and display. Simple right-click on timeline bar to mark start and stop points for video export.

Easy Export – Use mouse scroll wheel to zoom in on the search bar graphic timeline to choose the desired search times.

Faster Multi-Camera Searching – Significant speed improvements enables faster multi-camera search queries, especially when doing multiple searches.

Serial Integration Search Improvements – Serial data now graphically stored with image saves. ATM, POS and other serial data now easily exported with video images. Additional improvements have been made to serial data to automatically remove all unprintable characters from the display.

Panoramic Video Panels
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

View Megapixel IP panoramic cameras the way they were meant to be seen, in a borderless wide-panel view. Borders can now be removed in the Client Setup page allowing multiple lens images using panoramic cameras or multiple cameras.

The borders are easily removed in the Client Setup page here:

Enhanced Export Archiving
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

Version 4.8 now allows video export archiving greater than 4GB and containing video from greater than 16 cameras. exacqRecall now automatically discovers and allows targeting specific drives for export. A new “Write Progress” bar shows the current status of the export.

Improved Mapping – I/O Triggers Added to Maps
(availability: exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

Input and output triggers and events can now be added to maps along with cameras and audio sources.

New Audio Alerts – Sounds Added to Event Monitoring
(availability: exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

“Play Sound” has been added as an Action Type within Event Monitoring, enabling sounds to play on selected events or alarms.

ePlayer & exacqReplay Improvements
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

The OSD (On-Screen Display) for the camera as defined in the client is now also seen on the ePlayer used with the exacqReplay right-click instant-replay feature. A timeline bar has also been added to provide a time-based scroll mechanism.

Post-Motion Recording Configuration Added
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

Post-alarm video has now been added to each camera setup in addition to the already-existing pre-alarm video setup.

IP Camera Enhancements and Updates
(availability: exacqVision Start, exacqVision Professional, exacqVision Enterprise)

Basler
A 16:9 aspect ration is now supported in the Basler BIP2-1920 series of cameras: BIP2-1920c, BIP2-1920c-dn, BIP2-D1920c-dn (indoor), BIP2-1920c-dn (outdoor).

Arecont Vision
The latest version of exacqVision now supports the Arecont Vision 20-megapixel panoramic cameras: AV20185 (180 degrees) and AV20365 (360 degrees).

Language Translation Updates

Czech
Czech localization has been added, bring the total number of exacqVision localizations to 22.

Recent Releases
With this release we continue to make rapid progress with exacqVision, and incremental releases have hit about every 2 months. A large number of new features have been added in a short period of time. You can see the full release history of exacqVision here:
exacqVision Release History

Download and Installation
As always, the latest versions of exacqVision client and server software can easily and quickly be copied over existing versions while retaining all user settings. The latest versions can always be downloaded from the exacqVision Downloads page, or you can click on ‘Check for Updates‘ within the ‘About‘ box in the exacqVision software.

exacqVision Server software is available in both Windows and Linux versions, and the exacqVision client software is available in Windows, Linux and Macintosh native versions. Any version of exacqVision client can connect to any version of exacqVision server.

Updated server lineup – Our entire line of exacqVision IP and Hybrid servers is getting an upgrade to the latest Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets. Performance options have also been added to each product line for demanding local client and web service applications. The EL-Series of embedded appliances feature upgraded Intel Atom processors, and an Intel i3 option. The professional A-Series moves to an Intel i3 as standard, with an Intel i5 option, and come with Dual NICs as standard. And the enterprise-level Z-Series moves to the latest Intel Xeon and i7 processors. All units are either already shipping with the new chipsets, or will be shipping by October. Same price, better performance.

exacqVision 4.7 – We unveiled the latest version of our software, which features a redesigned Search Page, user login/logout feature, Fish-eye lens dewarping, Enterprise Notifications, and numerous camera additions and enhancements. More details in the exacqVision 4.7 blog post.

exacqVision Web Server 2.2 – The latest version of the web server allows access to server-side views, enabling saved views to be recalled by browser-based users.

exacq Mobile 2.2 – The latest exacq Mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices has a new Saved Views feature, allowing for multiple camera views and layouts to be saved and recalled simply by swiping through the various saved views.

Enterprise Health Manager 1.4 – The latest version of Health Manager features additional alarm monitoring, plus the ability to right-click video replay for any logged alarm.

exacqVision HD-SDI "Tri-brid" Server – A new addition to the A-Series server lineup enables 16 SD analog inputs, up to 64 IP inputs, and 4 HD analog inputs, compatible with most HD-SDI and HDcctv-certified cameras.

exacqVision START – Our new low-priced Start software also received a number of new features with the 4.7 release, including the redesigned Search Page, fish-eye dewarping, user login, and numerous camera additions.

Elsewhere on the show floor, exacqVision was being featured in a number of booths. Samsung was showing exacqVision integration with their IP cameras. Access control vendors including S2 Security, Gallagher, and IDenticard were showing integration of exacqVision with their access control systems. GBO Security was using exacqVision software to highlight their unique InfinityLens line of megapixel camera lenses. On Sunday, the day before the show opened, we held our Manufacturer’s Rep & International Distributor sales meeting with a full house.

Several of our technology partners issued press releases in conjunction with ASIS on their latest integration with exacqVision, including these:
  – Bosch to demonstrate integration of IP cameras with third-party software at ASIS International 2011
  – Sentry360 Gains Ground on Industry Acceptance of 360-degree Imaging with Exacq Partnership
  – ImmerVision Enables exacqVision With 360-degree Functionality

We certainly appreciate all of our integrators, distributors and end users who came by the booth. We’ll be back at ASIS next year, in Philadelphia. Some pictures from the show are below. You can also view more pictures here.

Version 4.7 is available for download here. Key features in the 4.7 Release include:

• Enhanced Search Page
• New Client Login/Logout capability
• Dewarping for 360-degree lenses and cameras
• New Enterprise Notifications page
• New camera additions and enhancements

Here are some of the features in detail:

Enhanced Search Page
Version 4.7 has a freshly-designed search page, the first of many search page improvements coming. The new search layout is more intuitive, and includes a number of new search features, including the ability to set start time and end time. The search results appear in a dynamic timeline that scales appropriate to the start and end time parameters. The cleaner layout enables more screen real estate for the video windows.

A close-up view of the new search bar is here:

The new Search Page is in the 4.7 versions of exacqVision Start, Pro, and Enterprise.

Client Login/Logout
A new enhanced security feature in version 4.7 adds the ability, on a per-server basis, to require user login for each connection. This new setup option appears on the Add Systems page:

When that login parameter is chosen, a prompt for user login credentials will appear when attempting to connect to that system:

The new Client Login is included in the 4.7 versions of exacqVision Start, Pro and Enterprise.

Real-time Dewarping for 360-degree cameras
Support has been added for real-time dewarping for 360-degree cameras and lenses, including those from ImmerVision. Expanded Digital PTZ Settings on the Camera Setup page enable configuration of the 360-degree parameters:

In the fully zoomed-out mode, the camera shows the entire view in the warped mode:

Using exacqVision’s Digital PTZ, you can zoom in and pan around the image in a fully dewarped mode. You can also set up multiple camera views, giving the effect of multiple, individual cameras watching different parts of the viewing field:

The full line of Panomorph lenses from ImmerVision are supported:
  – IMV1-1/3
  – IMV1-1/3NI

ImmerVision issued their own press release on exacqVision support here.

The new dewarping function is available in the 4.7 versions of exacqVision Start, Pro and Enterprise.
 

Enterprise Notifications page
A new feature added to exacqVision Enterprise is the Enterprise Notifications page. This is a new item in the "My Enterprise" tree:

Enterprise Notifications enables the configuring notifications for all exacqVision Enterprise-enabled servers from one screen:

IP Camera Enhancements and Updates
There are numerous additions, tweaks and enhancements for the various IP camera plugins in Version 4.7, including:

ACTi
Zoom support has been added for the full line of KCM-Series cameras from ACTi.

Arecont
Support has been added for the new AV20185DN and AV20365DN 20-Megapixel panormaic cameras from Arecont.

Arktan
Support has been added for the AT-16SD180-N 180-degree panoramic camera from Arktan Systems.

Bosch
Enhancements to the exacqVision Bosch ONVIF driver include support for encoding interval parameter, as well as frame rate for the supported cameras from Bosch.

IQeye
Support has been added for the new  IQA33 and IQA35 Alliance Pro models from IQeye.

ONVIF
Enhancements to the exacqVision Samsung ONVIF driver include multi-profile support and H.264 support for the supported cameras from Samsung.

Pelco
Numerous bug fixes, as well as added support for the Sarix PTZ cameras from Pelco.

Samsung
Enhancements to the exacqVision Samsung ONVIF driver include multi-profile support and H.264 support for the supported cameras from Samsung.

Sanyo
Support has been added for the new VDC-HD3500 and VDC-HD3300 HD IP cameras from Sanyo.

Vivotek
Support added G.711 audio for all 8000-series and some 7000-series models from Vivotek.

Recent Releases
With this release we continue to make rapid progress with exacqVision, and incremental releases have hit about every 2 months. A large number of new features have been added in a short period of time. You can see the full release history of exacqVision here:
exacqVision Release History

Download and Installation
As always, the latest versions of exacqVision client and server software can easily and quickly be copied over existing versions while retaining all user settings. The latest versions can always be downloaded from the exacqVision Downloads page, or you can click on ‘Check for Updates‘ within the ‘About‘ box in the exacqVision software.

exacqVision Server software is available in both Windows and Linux versions, and the exacqVision client software is available in Windows, Linux and Macintosh native versions. Any version of exacqVision client can connect to any version of exacqVision server.

Our 2011 listing has us at #401, reflecting an 851% growth between 2007-2010. Making the list two years in a row reflects continued, sustained growth. We are certainly grateful to our entire customer base: our Certified Resellers, our Distributors, and the end-users who have adopted Exacq products in their facilities, for enabling this growth rate.

To qualify for the Inc. 500 list, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007, they had to be based in the United States, privately held, for profit, and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2010, with a minimum required revenue for 2007 of $100,000 and a minimum for 2010 of $2 million.

The Inc. 500 website gives an analysis of companies by categories. Exacq is in the Security category. We are the only physical security vendor in the top 500, and the highest-ranking physical security vendor in the entire 5000 list.

The Inc. Magazine profile of Exacq is here. Our Press Release on the 2011 Inc. 500 listing is here.

Exacq debuted on the Inc. 500 list last year, and our report on that is here.

Thanks again to all of the Exacq employees, resellers, distributors, and customers, for your continued support.