Safe City Technology for City Safety and Security

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Ensuring public safety for everyone requires new ways of thinking. Data-driven connected video technology will help you rethink and simplify city safety management.

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CITY SAFETY

Because not every city has a superhero to protect it

To live, work and raise families without worry, city residents should feel safe and secure.

Video technology allows city authorities to improve safety across the board: from surveillance and situational awareness, to crowd management and predictive analytics.

Using XProtect^® as the connected video core, law enforcement, emergency services, security operators and others can react faster to incidents.

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CITY SAFETY VIDEO SOLUTIONS

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

When every second counts, video technology buys you time

Resolve incidents and save lives more effectively by enhancing collaboration between teams while giving first responders fuller situational awareness. Follow up with advanced post-event evidence gathering and analytics.

CROWD MANAGEMENT

Keep track of the headcount to avoid overcrowding

Maintain safety, detect abnormal behavior or simply provide a more convenient and smoother experience at events or transport hubs. All can be achieved using technologies ranging from digital signage to heat mapping and crowd counting.

CRIME PREVENTION & DETECTION

Safeguard peoples’ everyday by having video as your eyewitness

Exploit the full potential of cameras and analytics to quickly investigate and resolve crimes. Use the data and analytics to develop preventative measures to better protect the public and property and save costs.

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Access control and authorization

Protect property by ensuring that only authorized people can enter areas or sites at the right times of day.

Real-time patrol monitoring

Deploy body-worn cameras to help law enforcement and security teams gain full situational awareness and conduct post-event investigations.

Pandemic response

Enforce social distancing and masks using heat mapping, digital signage and facial recognition. Includes no-contact access and infected individual tracking.

Event management

Mitigate the damage of critical events by ensuring the clearest lines of communication and situational awareness across departments and jurisdictions.

Real-time visualization

Establish centralized control centers to help you understand what’s happening in real time, identify any risks or emergencies, and increase communication and collaboration.

Citizen engagement and information

Use digital signage and traffic signals keep people informed in real time, with the option to reroute them in crowd situations to ease congestion.

Public building security

Monitor public buildings’ entry points and occupant behavior. Also allows movement analysis while preventing unauthorized access.

Milestone XProtect^®

Make complex citywide solutions easier to manage

XProtect Corporate is designed for large-scale and high-complexity solutions. Entire connected cityscapes can be efficiently administered from a single management interface.

It features advanced video grooming functions and encryption capabilities to reduce video storage costs, while ensuring integrity and industry compliance. You also have the freedom to adapt and scale solutions as your safe city needs evolve.

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Why choose XProtect?

Open platform

XProtect’s open platform architecture
provides full flexibility and scalability to build end-to-end video solutions. You can integrate a vast selection of third-party software and devices.

Seamless integration

The Milestone Integration Platform Software Development Kit (MIP SDK) makes integrations fast and intuitive and lets you keep a single interface no matter how much you scale your solution.

Centrally managed

Combine diverse systems and devices
into a single, centrally operated and managed solution — with XProtect as the reliable hub. Allows easy scaling and operational efficiency.

Highlighted XProtect Features & Functions

XPROTECT^® RAPID REVIEW

Find what you’re looking for, fast!

Accelerate investigations with this advanced forensic analytics solution. With XProtect Rapid Review, you can review, search and analyze hours of video in minutes, and pinpoint people, objects and behaviors of interest immediately. Powered by BriefCam technology, this XProtect add-on puts an end to spending countless hours behind a screen.

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XProtect Smart Wall

Collect and connect all video insights

Put an end to silos. Smart Walls enable security operators to view citywide video feeds, maps, alarms and text messages in a single intuitive and flexible video wall. It’s ideal for assessing and coordinating responses to incidents.

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Smart Map in XProtect

Get a single picture of all installations

Finally get a complete overview of complicated cityscapes. Smart Map lets operators access and navigate between devices and locations on a highly visualized map integrating GIS maps, CAD drawings and Google and Bing maps.

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Centralized search

Rank results by relevance

Work smarter and more efficiently by gathering all video search functions in one place. A function in XProtect Smart Client, centralized search makes finding a specific incident or video sequence easier by aggregating all data types registered in the platform.

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More XProtect functions for safe cities

Privacy masking

Ensure users see only what they need to. Privacy masking is an easy and cost-efficient way to protect privacy without compromising security. It lets you conceal selected sections in live and playback video, as well as in exported material.

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XProtect Alarm Manager

Get an instant overview of potential threats or critical events. Alarm Manager centralizes all alarms and notifications in one place. Almost any kind of incident or technical problem can be set up to trigger an alarm and adapted to precise needs and parameters.

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360-degree dewarping

Increase situational awareness and reduce camera costs. This functionality means a single camera can track a moving object, eliminating the need to switch between cameras. The upshot is the need for fewer cameras without sacrificing coverage.

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Video Push

Share live video on the go. Video push allows live video streaming into XProtect from mobile device cameras. First responders and security operators can share footage in real time, collect first-hand evidence and cover angles not covered by fixed cameras.

Audio support

Increase collaboration and information sharing. Audio support adds speech and sound capabilities to connected cameras. This adds another security layer plus allows communication with staff or others for functionalities such as access control.

Evidence lock

Ensure important video material integrity for evidence gathering. Evidence lock allows the manual extension of video retention time for a selected camera set. Operators can manage and select an extended retention time from a pre-defined set of options.

Milestone Marketplace

Find all the XProtect products and expertise you need

Marketplace connects a global network of XProtect compatible software, hardware and expertise providers. The intuitive filters ensure you can find and compare the best products for the job, as well the experts to help make your safe city aspirations a reality.

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