"Hikcentral Professional is a truly integrated physical security platform. It combines the agility of a powerful video management system (VMS) and intelligent analytics with other mission critical security systems such as access control and video intercom systems to provide users with a comprehensive management, control and analysis solution,” said John Xiao, Vice President Marketing, Hikvision USA. “Hikcentral Professional provides security professionals with a comprehensive yet cost-effective solution that delivers advanced system integration, control and management to effectively improve physical security operations.”

Hikcentral Professional provides full featured VMS operation with remote management across multiple sites. The platform is infinitely scalable to accommodate users’ evolving needs and is designed for easy operation with user friendly drop-down menus, as well as detailed device, event, and health monitoring features to ensure uninterrupted operation.

Advanced VMS features include visual tracking of individuals across the surveillance network, adaptive video display windows to customise administrators’ camera views, and map management of system devices with click to view capability and visual alarm identification. In addition, the advanced platform is embedded with advanced analytics including motion analysis, line crossing detection, intrusion detection, people counting, queue analysis, heat analysis, personal article feature detection (hat, glasses, colour of clothing…), temperature analysis, and vehicle analysis. Hikcentral Professional also includes several playback features to quickly locate video footage of interest with the ability to easily export video clips in multiple standardized video format files such as MPEG4 to easily share for investigations and to use as evidence.

HikCentral Professional not only integrates with other third-party access control systems, it includes a comprehensive access control solution platform ready for seamless connection to Hikvision’s extensive offering of access controllers and readers, and video intercom products.

Integration with third-party systems is designed to be simple with Hikvision’s Optimus middleware solution. It is enabled by creating “Connectors” into Optimus—integrations and workflows to meet project requirements—from Hikcentral to a third-party system such as access control, automation protocols, HVAC, payroll systems, and more. Connectors can also enable data synchronisation and mapping among multiple systems.

Hikcentral health monitoring features include the ability to display system topology in real-time with CPU, RAM network speed and video streaming usage. The system also supports upgrading firmware of multiple devices simultaneously with maintenance history dashboards to make system maintenance accurate, fast and easy.