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Multi Sensor Control Platform
"MSCP - Providing Real Time Situational Awareness of New Threats to the World's Communities"
MSCP Overview
MSCP has been designed to suit both Government and Commercial markets alike. MSCP incorporates a new redundant network architecture and extensible sensor library, capable of meeting the ever increasing needs of security, site and building managers. MSCP allows users to integrate all facets of onsite security, including third party systems into one common easy to use end to end control platform.
The main advantage of MSCP is that the system is designed as a Manufacturer Agnostic control platform, capable of controlling devices from any manufacturer. The open design philosophy provides the user with the freedom to use best of breed systems and combine those systems to provide a complimentary totally integrated security solution, without being impeded by proprietary systems.
System Operation
MSCP uses an intuitive multi level GPS based map GUI display. The GUI display, outlines the location of all devices located throughout the site, with an intuitive user selectable icon, these icons reflect Camera positions, detectors and physical device locations etc. Control of theses devices depicted on the GUI can be instigated by control of a mouse.
When an event is detected , the GUI map will highlight the corresponding icon which will indicate the location of the event, the event will be displayed within the Active Alarm window providing details of the event including the detector/device name, event time and date, action status (new alarm - actioned or viewed) and Operator ID. Events can be cleared and entered into the Alarm History after the operator has acknowledged the event. Each event is logged in the Alarm History which can then be interogated after the event if required. Cameras can be linked to display live video or even pre alarm event video, the system can be configured to have multi alarm / replay monitors creating a "virtual matrix" environment. If there are no monitors attached to the MSCP node, video will be displayed and controlled from within the GUI. Some devices can provide dynamic tracking data which can be displayed on the GUI map giving a live visual track of a target or multiple targets.
PTZ cameras can be called to an absolute geo-spatial coordinate and or preset positions, allowing multiple logic based alarm responses to be put in place. PTZ's which are linked to alarm devices within the system will automatically pan to an alarm activation thus allowing for immediate alarm visual verification. Vector Driven Device Control (VDDC) allows MSCP to visually track moving targets with data supplied by devices like Ground Based Radar system. The camera's Field of View (FOV) can be displayed on the GUI map to indicate the cameras angle of view and nominal distance to the target. This alleviates the need to program individual presets for cameras., by specifying the location of a device, a camera can auotmatically pan to the location of the device alarm.
MSCP Networking & Redundancy
Large scale or any security system for that matter have major redundancy issues when a site has a failure. MSCP architecture has been designed to overcome some of these issues using it's unique Peer to Peer technology. Sites are automatically updated through the MSCP software, allowing all MSCP nodes on the "network" to have the same up to date site data. MSCP uses a network heirachy process, if the one of the nodes in the "network" was to fail the next node in the heirachy would take control of the site and update all other nodes as neccessary.
MSCP has been designed to use the new IPv6 standard, the next generation, 128-bit Internet addressing scheme (it will also function on current IPv4 networks).
Summary
Complete security management is now a reality, Zone’s MSCP provides security personnel the ability to interpret and resolve any developing security situation in a real time environment. At last a security management platform that will manage the torrent of data generated by today's immense volume of security devices.
Third Party Devices
Some third party integrated devices currently functioning within MSCP:
- Digital Video Recorders, Network Video Recorders and subsequent composite CCTV cameras
- Digital CCTV cameras and IP/Megapixel Security Cameras
- Pan Tilt Zoom Cameras
- IP video Servers
- Video Analytic Devices
- Alarm Devices
- Ground Based Radar Systems
- Spatial recognition and detection systems
- Fence based Perimeter Systems
- Counter Sniper Systems
- Sonar based Anti Swimmer systems
- Millimetre Wave screening systems
- Access Control devices
- Point of Sale systems
- Biometric Systems
- Object and Pattern Recognition systems
- Building Management Systems