Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 39 | Page 35

//////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: PHYSICAL SECURITY, POWERED BY GENETEC IN A UNIFIED SOLUTION LIKE SECURITY CENTRE, CYBERSECURITY IS APPLIED – AND UPDATED – ACROSS ALL PHYSICAL SECURITY COMPONENTS. Your physical security solution should be unified and not just integrated While the security industry (like the rest of the software industry) has worked to develop a variety of methods to bring separate physical security solutions together via integration, the result remains a set of disparate systems with limited communication and interoperability among them. Integrating separate security functions like access control and video surveillance www.intelligentcio.com using software development kits (SDK) or application programming interface (API) programming only is limited and can be a costly approach. Unification, however, takes stand-alone components of a security solution beyond just being loosely or superficially connected via an SDK or API. A unified physical security platform is a comprehensive software solution that manages the different components of a security environment through a centralised open- architecture built to provide complete access to all data. A unified platform goes above and beyond tagging or bookmarking video when an access control event occurs or offering the capability to unlock an access-controlled door from within the video surveillance user interface. It’s a platform that combines information from all available sensors to provide greater awareness to operators. This not only means showing video feeds when alerts are triggered by the access control INTELLIGENTCIO 35