Video enhancements in Security Center 5.10.0.0 - Security Center 5.10.0.0

Security Center Release Notes 5.10.0.0

Applies to
Security Center 5.10.0.0
Last updated
2021-03-31
Content type
Release notes
Language
English
Product
Security Center
Version
5.10

Security Center 5.10.0.0 includes the following video enhancements.

General enhancements

Omnicast™ Cloud storage
Cloud storage is now available in Security Center. Use it to upload video recordings from local Archivers to the cloud, and to stream video archives from the cloud to clients and federated users connected to the system.

With Cloud storage, you only pay for what you need. You can increase or decrease storage capacity without purchasing additional hardware. Cloud storage provides a clear path towards a hybrid video surveillance architecture. Your operators can quickly search and play back video located on-premises and in a high-performance cloud repository. You can also store video for long periods at a lower cost. This helps you comply with corporate policies and industry regulations efficiently.

The new Cloud storage improves upon and replaces the Cloud Archives plugin.

Cloud storage uses new communication ports for cloud uploads and video playback. For more information, see Firewall ports used by Omnicast™ applications in Security Center.

For more information on Cloud storage, see About Cloud storage.

New Archive transfer history report
You can now use the Archive transfer history task to create a report detailing the results of any past archive transfer. From the report, you can see the trigger date, end transfer time, trigger reason, and transfer result of the queried transfer group.
New Archive transfer sequence imported event
You can now monitor when a new video sequence is made available for use in the Archiver through the new Archive transfer sequence imported event. The type of transfer and the start and end time of the imported sequence is shown in the description. The possible transfer types are:
  • Consolidation
  • Duplicate
  • Import (for ofline device)
  • EdgeTrickling
Genetec™ Web Player library
The Genetec™ Web Player is a new library used to display Security Center camera audio and video in any web page. This library is intended for web developers and is designed to be used with Javascript or Typescript code. It is lightweight and easy to integrate in existing web pages because it doesn't depend on any other library or framework.
Separate installer for camera drivers
Starting with Security Center 5.10.0.0, video device drivers are installed by a separate installer bundled in the full installation package called Security Center Drivers. This means you can now upgrade your drivers with Genetec™ Update Service without having to upgrade Security Center, as long as they are compatible with each other.
  • Latest Drivers packages will be compatible with all Security Center releases within the same major version.
  • It is not recommended to install a Drivers package that is older than the one bundled with Security Center.
Additional audio action available
You can now use the Enable camera audio check box, in the Event-to-action screen, to enable audio automatically. When displaying video after an event is triggered, the associated audio is automatically included.
Support camera commands through Federation™
You can now use encoder commands for federated cameras. The encoder commands will only be available when federating Security Center 5.10.0.0 or higher.
New column in hardware inventory report
A new column in the hardware inventory report displays the Last password change result.

Media Router enhancements

Separate IP address ranges for local and federated streams
The Media Router nows uses separate multicast IP address ranges for local streams and federated streams. This is to overcome a multicast limitation where client applications can only request multicast streams by IP address from the router, not by port. Therefore, although a client application listens only on a specific port, all stream sources sharing the same IP address are sent by the router. If your system uses Federation™, there is a good chance that a federated camera would be assigned the same IP address, with a different port, as a local camera. When a client requests a multicast stream from a local camera while a federated camera assigned to the same IP address is in use, both streams are sent to the client, although only one is needed.

For more information, see Configuring the Media Router role.

Different port number for every multicast address
A new option has been added to the Media Router to increment the port number for every multicast address. This is to overcome a Windows limitation that puts a cap on the bandwidth of a single port at around 100 Mbps. By default, the system only increments the multicast address assigned to every video encoder it discovers, not the port numbers. If you frequently use multicast, you can now ensure that every multicast address uses a different port number.

For more information, see Changing multicast ports of cameras.

Unit Assistant Role enhancements

New Properties tab
The Unit Assistant Role configuration page now has a Properties tab where you can enable the traceroute feature and configure advanced settings.
New Traceroute setting
You can now enable the Traceroute setting to monitor cameras and provide diagnostic information when there is a camera connection issue with the Archiver. The results of the diagnostics can be seen from the Camera events report task.
NOTE: Enabling the Traceroute feature might increase the resources taken on the Archiver's system.
New Password history
You can now use the Password history button to show when a unit's password was changed through Security Center using the Unit Assistant role, what the previous password was, and what the password was changed to. Operators can use this information to resolve connectivity issues by retrying old passwords. You can also use the Recover password button in the Password history dialog box to retry all previous passwords one after the other. The Recover password button is only available when the unit has a connection issue with Security Center.
IMPORTANT: Viewing or exporting privileges are required for this feature.

Media Gateway enhancements

Network segregation through Media Gateway
You can now configure more than one Media Gateway role in your system. The purpose of this enhancement is to let you segregate the accesses to the RTSP and the REST endpoints to subsets of their network. A common scenario is to have a Media Gateway with only the REST API available through the DMZ for the Web Client and Genetec™ Mobile applications, while another Media Gateway with RTSP and more permissive access is available for internal use only. Previously, the only way to isolate different Media Gateway usages was to use federated systems to isolate the different networks, now you can do it within the same system. For more information, see Configuring Media Gateway roles.

To benefit from this enhancement, the configuration of the Mobile Server and Web Server roles has also been changed to let you select to which Media Gateway role they should be paired with to handle their video requests.

RTSPS support
We now support RTSP over s secured channel. You can enable it in the Media Gateway - Properties page.

Archives report enhancements

Source Archiver filter
You can now filter your query for video from specific Archivers. Use this filter to see if a certain Archiver still has archives for a certain camera, or to display video sequences available from a duplicated archives destination.
Advanced Display mode settings
You can now sort your report by origin type and force the display of recording gaps previously too small to be visible.
  • Select One row for all origins to display one row for all origin types.
  • Select One row per origin to display individual origin types such as transfer, edge transfer, or edge gaps.
  • Select Force display of gaps greater than to display recording gaps by a set amount. This setting can be configured in seconds, minutes, hours, or days.
New report pane columns
Origin type
The origin of the file:
Downloaded from the unit's internal storage
Files created by the camera, downloaded from it by an Archiver, and currently stored on the Archiver's disk.
Duplicated from another Archiver
Files created by an Archiver and transferred to another one.
On the unit's internal storage
Files created by the camera and currently stored on it.
Recorded by the Archiver
Files created and currently stored by an Archiver.
Restored from a backup
Files restored from an offline backup set; that is, a backup file containing archives that were not accessible from Security Center prior to restoring them.
Recording percentage
Percentage of available video displayed over the queried time range.

Onvif enhancements

Support event filtering
New event filter improves network performance by querying supported events only.
Motion detection read only mode
A new option is available to disable motion detection configuration and only allow motion zone configuration on the unit's web page.
Enhancements for motion zone configuration
Support for the configuration of a rectangular motion zone. You can now define the size and location of a rectangular zone.
Support for metadata streaming
We now support metadata streaming with RTSP over HTTPS.

Bosch enhancements

Support for Bosch Forensic Search without edge storage
We can now record Bosch proprietary metadata in the Archiver to allow for the development of a new forensic search plugin leveraging Genetec™ SDK. This feature is independent of the existing Bosch Forensic Search plugin leveraging Bosch VSDK.

Hanwha enhancements

Support for temperature detection
We now support the Hanwha Techwin temperature event. This event indicates repeated temperature detection.
Support for shock detection
We now support the Hanwha Techwin shock detection event.
Support for object detection
We now support the Hanwha Techwin object detection event.

Panasonic enhancements

Metadata added for camera events
When monitoring Panasonic camera events, detailed information is now available in the description of the object detected. Metadata includes whether the object detected is a vehicle, an individual, or a bicycle.
NOTE: This metadata is only available for cameras that support AI Video Motion Detection (AI-VMD).