VIDSYS PREVIEWS VIDSHIELD 4.0 PHYSICAL SECURITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM AT ISC WEST

New PSIM Platform Features Dynamic Web-Based User Interface and Ease-of-Use Benefits for Improved Collaboration and Event Management

LAS VEGAS - March 28, 2007- Booth #31003 - VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solutions for safety, security, surveillance, military and transportation organizations, today announced it will preview VidShield 4.0 at ISC West 2007 (booth #31003).  With a dynamic Web-based user interface and improved ease-of-use features, the newest version of the company’s PSIM platform will enable security personnel in operations centers to more efficiently manage events, while improving situational awareness and policy implementation.

Supporting the convergence of video management for security and surveillance applications with incident and event management, PSIM solutions like VidShield 4.0 integrate multiple, often siloed products and systems, including various video protocols and formats, into a single seamless management platform.  The integrated platform captures and correlates real-time events from multiple systems, allowing more effective collaboration, escalation and notification by integrating with existing communications infrastructure.

VidShield 4.0 Improves Security Event Management and an Organization’s Ability to Respond Effectively
With this newest version of VidShield, security personnel in operations centers will benefit from a centralized, intuitive and visually appealing solution that improves collaboration and event management and further supports the convergence of physical and IT security assets.  VidShield 4.0 highlights include:

• Dynamic, Web-Based User Interface:  An intuitive user interface provides a single view of multiple security feeds and tools that can incorporate analog and digital video in live or recorded formats.  Users can also invoke tools that enable video drag and drop, event escalation, video wall management, desktop sharing and live chat.  A new thin client provides better remote management and the ability to push data to other devices, such as mobile phones. 
  
• Dynamic Visualization and Improved Data Representation:  VidShield 4.0 provides active data representation and the ability to graphically track and display information, including sensor and positional data.  The new user interface can incorporate Geographical Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to actively track vehicles, personnel, containers and other assets.  Camera representation also allows users to display and select devices based on location, trouble spots or availability.
  
• Comprehensive Event Management:  New event capture capabilities provide a wider aperture for event management, enabling security personnel to capture and analyze incidents that may have happened hours apart.  VidShield 4.0 will feature a new rules engine that can easily generate use cases to enable security systems to quickly identify new threats and improve organization’s effectiveness.    Additionally, the new modular server architecture scales to manage a virtually unlimited number of events.  Sophisticated rules capabilities enable better correlation between events, while helping to automate escalation processes.

The new user interface and ease-of-use features support important new visualization and event correlation capabilities, giving users the ability to detect events and take action based on specific business policies.  VidShield 4.0 provides the best solution for integrating security technologies, correlating events and automating responses to dramatically improve the management of security incidents.  Consider various locations in a Mass Transit System that are monitored for abnormal behavior, including turnstile jumping, crowd gathering and lurkers.  VidShield 4.0 helps the System capture and apply rules to these potential security “events” in order to classify them properly and ensure rapid, appropriate action.  For example, if “slip and fall” and “restricted area violation” events are triggered, the System’s operations personnel can use VidShield 4.0 to capture the events, apply rules to the event data and code them accordingly.  Then based on the procedure and policy database in VidShield 4.0, they can use the built-in collaboration interface to have appropriate personnel dispatched – multiple police offers to the restricted area violation, and police and EMS to the slip and fall.

“VidShield 4.0 represents our next major milestone in terms of empowering VidSys customers with the tools they need to make their operations center more efficient, responsive and proactive,” said VidSys CEO Chuck Teubner.  “Increasingly, VidSys is the partner of choice for companies that are looking to leverage existing technologies, but need a platform that not only supports the integration of physical and logical assets, but also gives them a better view into the correlation between security events and links those events to security policy.” 
 
VidSys executives will be previewing VidShield 4.0 at booth #31003 at ISC West.   For organizations that would like to participate in the VidShield 4.0 beta program, please contact Rick Clarkson (clarksonr@vidsys.com).  General availability will be in Q2 2007.

Additional ISC West Highlights
On Wednesday, March 28 at 11 a.m., VidSys CTO James Chong will be presenting “The Three A’s to Public Safety: Awareness, Assessment and Action.”  His session will address the complexity within today’s command center and its impact on latency in the quality and rapidity of response.  This session will inform command center professionals of the three A’s to keeping the public safe - Awareness, Assessment and Action - and the importance of integrating the various data inputs that exist in today’s command centers with these three essential key elements.

About VidSys
VidSys is a leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) solutions and the only operations center software company that provides truly collaborative situational awareness for safety, security, military and transportation organizations.  The VidSys platform is based on an open, hybrid architecture that integrates data from any video source, as well as any detection, monitoring or control system, allowing public safety and security personnel to focus on awareness, assessment and action.  Founded in 2005, the company’s solutions are deployed in transportation, federal government, enterprise and state and local government applications, including some of the largest state and city command and control centers in the U.S.  Privately funded by IDG Ventures, the company has offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts and Vienna, Virginia.  For more information, visit www.vidsys.com.

 

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