Investigations in minutes: Genetec introduces new features in Security Center SaaS

THE Genetec, a global leader in enterprise physical security software, today announced new investigative capabilities with intelligent automation (AI) in Security Center SaaS to help operators quickly locate video evidence, understand the context around an event, and close cases in minutes.

For many organizations, investigations still involve hours of manual video search and switching between different systems.The new features of Security Center SaaS centralize research flows in a modern and intuitive interface, where operators can search for people or vehicles in live or recorded video streams using natural language and advanced filters.

Results are automatically enriched with contextual insights such as nearby activities, information about what happened before and after an incident, and the location of like-looking people.These new features make it easy to identify the right camera to analyze, preventing operators from spending time manually trying to locate the appropriate images in large deployments or switching between multiple tools to reconstruct an incident.

Security Center SaaS, based on an open architecture, works with one of the largest camera and device ecosystems in the industry. This gives organizations the freedom to choose the hardware that best meets their needs, without getting stuck with a single vendor.By leveraging metadata generated by different camera brands and models, operators can use the advanced system search capabilities to get more accurate and contextual information.

“Security professionals often face pressure to quickly analyze large volumes of video and data, especially after critical” incidents, says Jonathan Doyon, Senior Director of Product Group at Genetec Inc.“Our new intelligent search engine offers investigation teams a faster and more intuitive way to find relevant evidence, assemble timelines, and securely share results, all in a single unified interface.With the new investigative capabilities in Security Center SaaS, we are delivering a unified, context-sensitive investigation experience where operators can quickly understand what happened and act with confidence.This is the innovation that security teams were asking for, and this is just beginning.

Key features of the new research experience:

• Intelligent search: allows users to start an AI investigation directly from the video player by selecting a person, vehicle or object. Based on a context-sensitive search, the system automatically adapts to the operator selection and starts the proper workflow. This approach eliminates trial and error, making investigations faster and more intuitive.
• Next activity: quickly find out what happened before or after an event, identifying people or vehicles detected near the scene in a specific time window. Ideal for understanding the context around suspicious events or checking movements from a forensic reference image.
• Input and output detection: identify the exact moment when a person, vehicle or object enters or leaves a scene. This allows for immediate analysis with clear information for reporting and investigations.
• Similar people: locate like-looking individuals on multiple cameras using advanced similarity detection technology.The system generates a unique digital profile for each person based on visual data and intelligently locates like-minded people, even in multi-site, multi-vendor deployments.

The new investigative capabilities will be available from September 29 to all SaaS Security Center users, enabling operators to more quickly search, analyze and export evidence while maintaining full traceability and privacy protection throughout the process.

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