i-PRO Active Guard turns VMS into powerful search engines

The new Active Guard version you just introduced i-PRO offers VMS support for real-time alarm notifications and post-event searches.

The AI-based add-on Active Guard In its new version, it incorporates more search elements and improvements in the user interface, to the point of converting video management systems (Vms) on powerful search engines capable of real-time search or forensic analysis.

This latest version of Active Guard, which is already backed by benchmark VMS in the market, Including Genetec Security Center E i-PRO Video Insight, Add support for the ASM300 software of Milestone Systems X-Protect.

As he explains Norio Hitsuishi, Global Product Manager at i-PRO, "with the addition of Milestone X-Protect, Active Guard is now available to the top leaders in the global VMS market and will revolutionize the way security operators conduct real-time and post-event searches.".

Combining these enhancements with the i-PRO line of AI-powered cameras "is creating a powerful end-to-end AI security ecosystem that enables enterprises to take their infrastructure to the next level," Hitsuishi said. This latest announcement highlights the company's mission as a trusted and forward-looking partner to make AI the new standard in the security industry.".

i-PRO Active Guard Creates a More Efficient and Accurate AI-Powered System, without compromising image quality or network performance, that integrates seamlessly into the existing VMS UI and appears as a more feature tab.

Another advantage is that it allows operators to easily manage AI analytics multi-camera i-PRO and configure sophisticated search parameters based on "the industry's most search attributes to date", as they point out from the company, Including Gender, Age, Clothing color, Facial features, Vehicle Color & Steering & More.

As a result,, Security operators significantly reduce time spent looking at multiple screens to search for people or vehicles or recorded video to search for important events. With the new version, They can now register specific characteristics in their lists (For example, Man in white shirt and blue pants) and the VMS will send them a real-time alarm whenever a match is identified.

This unique feature of i-PRO Active Guard improves real-time situational awareness and enables proactive security. This same process can be configured for rapid extraction of event data during forensic investigations.

Metadata is captured and analyzed by i-PRO AI network cameras at the edge, using the powerful SoC Ambarella, reducing bandwidth and eliminating the need for expensive servers, and are sent to the Active Guard server.

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